Say what? Blogivists is asking bloggers not to blog?!
I know, the exact opposite of what we push day-in and day-out.
For a good reason: Blogivists is moving from one server to another, and, as is the case with server-moves, there is the potentiality of data loss if users attempt to blog during the transition. Meaning… that 1am post you’ll spend the better part of your Friday night putting up? – gone, for naught.
So, why the server-move, right? Good question. Consider it a major tune-up. It’ll increase the stability and accessibility of the site. And that’s a good, no – great thing!
So the short end of it is: DON’T BLOG at any point during the move, beginning Friday (1/23) at 10pm CST and ending Saturday (1/24) at 10pm CST.
Yes, a full 24 hours. Instead, watch a movie, read a book, or go out with your friends.
If you use Internet Explorer, you are probably aware that video does not show up properly on your blog. Even if you don’t use it though, your readers using IE still can’t see the embedded video.
After weeks and weeks of intensive troubleshooting, The Blogivists Team has figured out how to make video appear on the Internet Explorer browser. Finally!
So let’s begin…
On step 5 of the original tutorial, I mention that one can revert back to the “Visual” viewer after embedding in “HTML”. While, of course, you have the ability to do so, you should not. Not if you want your readers using Internet Explorer to be able to see your video.
For some reason, Internet Explorer will not display video properly if, after embedding video, you switch back to the “Visual” viewer. The very act, that of switching viewers, corrupts the code for Internet Explorer. So instead of seeing video, anyone using Internet Explorer sees a blank, white box. Strange, I know.
Note: this is not a problem for anyone using Firefox (or any other browser, besides IE). These people will see video properly no matter how the author embeds code. However, given that a large percentage of the population still uses IE, it’s probably smart to always make adding-video your last step.
Here’s the step by step:
Complete all work on your post.
Embed the video and then click “Save” or “Publish”.
If for any reason you need to go back and edit features of an old post, copy first and then cut the video code, re-pasting it into its previous position after all editing work is complete.
There you go! Here’s a video tutorial to demonstrate getting past the IE conundrum:
They tell me diversity of thought is good, an end in of itself. That it may foster critical thinking skills – and, thereby, work as a means towards ultimate truth – is both incidental and bordering on the irrelevant.
Now I don’t buy into the relativistic claim but, as it turns out, blogivists.com is ideologically diverse! I mean, don’t get me wrong – everyone here believes that government is, more often than not, the anti-solution but even so, there’s quite a bit of variety here when it comes down to the specifics.
To demonstrate, let’s look at the past couple months. I’ll name a few issues and give you a couple pro and con posts from within the Blogivists community. Hot dawg!
There you go. And that’s just off the top of my head. Really! So, what I’m getting at here is: with a more thorough internal investigation, we could probably apply for some kind of government subsidy…
Haha. Just kidding! I think that’s one specific we’re unanimously against.
I’m not one to believe in astrology, tarot cards, or other New Age mumbo-jumbo, but if I did, right now I’d say something like, “Wow…the stars have aligned for blogivists.com”
What do I mean? Folks, we’re getting press. Exposure. Publicity.
Quite a bit came from the promotional work the Blogivists Team did at last weekend’s RightOnline. (While I’m on the subject, check out Eric Odom’s write-up of the event). The team must have really come out swinging because blogivists.com got mentions here, here, here and here. And that last one? The New York Times political blog. Zing!
Yes, and not only did we get some good press, we got some new Blogivists on board too. Arguably the most enthusiastic? The Militiaman, who wrote 7 posts in just 3 days.
Of course, it’s not just a one-way street. You guys are procuring publicity too.
The Illinois chapter of Americans For Prosperity sent out some snail mail, an e-newsletter, and – if that weren’t enough – a press release regarding The Pork Report and its “Pork Project A Day”.
As newspapers everywhere bemoan the loss of advertising revenue, campaigns know where recent college graduates looking for jobs head first. Click on nonprofit job listings on Craigslist in virtually any swing state and you’ll be assaulted with appeals for paid canvassers.
The only catch: If you care for a job in Republican politics, you may have to look elsewhere.
As first noticed by the Nevada-based E!! blog, Democratic campaigns are going out of their way to find new staffers. Recent Craigslist postings in the Silver State, from the Democratic National Committee and MoveOn.org under the headline “Field Organizers and Campaign Staff Needed to Beat McCain!”, sit alongside advertisements in the Las Vegas Review-Journal seeking canvassers for the Nevada State Democratic Party…
Well alright! Now whoever said that blogging was a pointless activity?
Maybe it’s just the holiday weekend obscuring my judgment, but it seems like there’s been a more celebratory tone in the community as of late. If true, the appropriate deduction is that freedom is spreading and our values are becoming more popular.
Let’s examine…
Firstly, the obvious. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme Court affirmed an individual’s (as opposed to just the collective) right to keep and bear arms. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe Defense Mechanism, the point person for all-things-2nd Amendment, was first on the scene. Of course, I have to give it up to The Midnight Ride, who had a comprehensive four part series – yes: 1, 2, 3, 4 – on the matter. Check ‘em out.
Secondly, the “millionaire’s amendment” – a campaign-finance loophole that gives candidates running against self-funding millionaires the ability to raise more money – was invalidated by SCOTUS. In Campaign Finance Laws Suck, The Midnight Ride recognizes the goodness of said decision. But hey – you know it, I know it, he knows it – the battle doesn’t end there:
What SHOULD happen is we should just eliminate all campaign finance laws and let people give however much they want to whoever they want. I mean really this country was founded on principles of liberty, why shouldn’t people be free to give what they want to who they want?
Thirdly, there exists A Powerful, Freethinking Woman-Unlike Hillary Clinton! Any guesses on who the woman in question is? Anyone, anyone? Standard of Living gives us the answer: Alaskan governor Sarah Palin. Yes, a surprisingly vocal grassroots campaign to get a McCain/Palin ticket has erupted on the internet and, as I’ve come to learn, Blogivists is not the exception. Many of you guys, in fact, are actively producing the buzz. The Midnight Ride even changed his tagline to read “Sarah Palin: Yes She Can”. Bordering on the mildly obsessive if you ask me…be sure to ask him when the release date for “I Got a Crush…On Palin” is.
Granted, not all news can be good news. The Illinois-centric Pork Report, with their daily Pork Barrel Project of the Day thread, has plenty of headache-inducing, non-good news.
Yes, it’s been awhile since the last Select CHEESE. Know what’s better than time-off? The blogivists community, of course. Your blogivism.
And recently it’s only gotten better. Not only has the quantity of bloggers and posts increased, but the quality is way up as well.
Seriously, give yourselves a pat on the back because what, only months ago, was a small and rogue band of novice bloggers is well on its way to becoming something big and exciting. A force to reckon with. Statists, watch out!
So while I’m on the subject of community, how about I introduce some of the new kids on the block:
Classically Liberal: Like most people who self-identify as classical liberals, economics is the prism. Free markets, property rights and transparency is the result.
E! True Conservative Story™: A blog pushing “Justice and Liberty in Nevada”. I mean, with a title and focus like that, how can this blog not go far?
Extremism in Defense of Liberty: For this blogger, the title “capitalist” is incomplete. ‘Extremism… is an Objectivist. An Objectivist, moreover, with particular contempt for Senator Herb Kohl.
laffin@liberals: A blog with an Ayn Rand influence covering local politics in Dane County, Wisconsin.
Liberty Tree Lantern: This dudes loves liberty. Some call him Capt. Karl; most just know him as a legend.
Standard of Living: Another classical liberal – this one from Madison, Wisconsin. Modern liberals beware – we’re taking back the terminology.
…the end of man is to know: With quick wit and a sharp mind, he’ll beat you over the head with his pragmatism. Every time. Be sure to check out the Friday thread: No ‘Effing Way.
They’re all great people so be sure to drop them a comment or two. Hey, maybe even some link love.
As for me, I’ll be back to my usual routine – weaving particular posts into a theme – next week.
And if that doesn’t satisfy you, check out this video – entitled Any Given Blog – that Liberty Girl made. Holla!
Quite a bit of activity coming from Nevadan blogivists this week…
The Center for Yucca Facts made some noise when they presented a reasoned, anti-alarmist, alternative resolution to the Clark County Commission. For those of you unaware, CYF is a group that provides:
factual and scientific information on the proposed nuclear waste repository being built at Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada…We believe the Nevada’s single-minded, unbending opposition to the Yucca Mountain project has not permitted a balanced appraisal of it.
Consider them the Bjørn Lomborg of the anti-nuclear movement.
Meanwhile, Sue Lowden, Chairman of the Nevada Republican Party, started a little brouhaha on the blog with her latest post, About Re-conveing the GOP Convention. Check it out. 67 comments and counting…which, being the self-absorbed blogger I am, makes me think I’m doing something wrong.
Sue, any chance I can get a blogging lesson sometime soon?
Speaking of comment envy, Miss Behavin’s now-classic I Hate Dell post of 3/20/08 is still getting comments. Talk about staying power — it should be entered in the Blogivist Hall-of-Fame or something. In an update late last week, ‘Behavin appears to have had the last word with the computer company. Yes, with consumer choice and contract enforcement, justice prevails in the market system.
The bureaucratic, government system, though? Well, let’s just look at Liberty Girl’s post on Senator Robert Byrd, also known as the Ultimate King of Pork. Here’s a system that promotes the acquisition of earmarks, that rewards looters such as Senator Byrd. With what? Specifically, how about:
a 10-foot, 1500 pound statue of himself in the state capitol building
And if that didn’t stroke his ego enough, there are more than 35 public-work projects named after him. You know, roads, public buildings, colleges, parks, awards, feats of science, etc.
Uh…yeah, I don’t quite consider that deserved, nor just.
Christina from Christina’s Common Sense created a video reflecting upon the meaning of freedom and where she receives inspiration to defend that ideal.
A Chicago Blog gave us an action item for the day.
And well, as for me…I linked to Top Gunn’s “Soldier’s Blues”…which isn’t the most patriotic of songs, but it gets your head in the right place.
If, like me, you did any major traveling during the weekend, you probably noticed a gap in your wallet where there once was money. And I’m not the only one complaining about high gas prices either. Big ups to Principle Over Party, who points to the real source of our fuel woes: taxes, taxes and more taxes. Case in point? As he states:
in Chicago, who has the highest gas prices in the nation, taxes account for approximately 20% of the gas costs.
Geesh.
You’d think with all that revenue streaming in, the Illinois state government wouldn’t be (too much) in the red but, of course, they are. Just how much? In a post entitled 109 billion…and counting, Go Free Yourself tells us about For the Good of Illinois, a nonprofit that – besides doing a lot of other good work – provides free Illinois debt counters that you can add to your blog. Wondering how much debt Illinois is in at this moment? Maybe you shouldn’t…
Which brings us to the last item on our agenda: who is the newest member to join the blogivist community? Give him a shout, it’s The Silent Majority. In an introductory post, ‘Silent questions whether privatization is the solution to Chicago’s ever-growing public debt. The entity in question? Parking meters. He isn’t quite sure it’s the end-all-be-all but, then again, he’s probably a socialist. Haha. Totally kidding. In all seriousness though, what do you think? Forward your responses here.
Hey, what do you know? Another weekend is upon us. Cheers!
Last week the talk of the town was the Farm Bill. With Wednesday’s presidential veto of the bill – a rare instance of fiscal restraint for W indeed – the collective jabber continues, taking on a celebratory tone for opponents of pork and government waste. You know, that thing that was once considered a “conservative” value. These days – not so much…
As Night Twister laments:
Finding a true conservative in Congress these days is like finding a farm growing anything other than corn…or Renewable Energy as it is now called.
Ugh. Ethanol subsidies…don’t remind me.
Fortunately ‘Twister is on top it, giving Rep. Marilyn Musgrave – a self-proclaimed conservative who has pledged to “lead the fight” in overriding Bush’s veto – a little econ 101.
As for waste at the local level, in Chicago it appears we need an ethics class because no amount of Keynesian indoctrination could produce the following level of disrespect for taxpayer investment…
Coming from our own Rock’s Rantings, we get wind of Alderman’s Lyle’s magazine subscription to Communist Party propaganda and, moreover, $1,480 that was spent by Alderman Latasha Thomas to mow the pathetic, dinky strip of grass you see on the left-hand side of your screen.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry…
What’s the solution? How do we put a end to this culture of political corruption?
As Eric O’Keefe’s Monday-morning post put it, don’t look for hope in our political parties. They’re not the solution.
They are now quasi-governmental entities run by incumbents to expand their power. They offer no check on the power of government; and they are so heavily regulated by government that there is no prospect of reviving them…
Liberty is in retreat because our political parties are controlled by incumbents in government whose goal is to increase their power over taxpayers. Only private, voluntary organizations can hope to preserve and promote principles that limit incumbents to their proper roles.
The stiffs at Blogivists.com have asked me to write a run-down of what’s hot, of what’s noteworthy in the community on a weekly basis. Naturally, I said yes, so expect just that every Thursday or Friday under the title ‘Select CHEESE’. Yes, ‘Select CHEESE’ – the Cheeseman’s take on what should be mandatory reading. Aspire for it!
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What’s happening on this beautiful Friday afternoon…
Before I forget, remember to wish RightWave a belated birthday. As a gift, perhaps someone will grant Wave’s wish of getting rid of the Farm Bill. According to the latest post, it’s clear Mrs Clinton doesn’t have any plans to.
“I believe saying no to the farm bill is saying no to rural America.”
Haha…I’m sorry, it’s just great comedy.
For those of not familiar with the long, wasteful, headache-inducing history of the Farm Bill, Subtle as a Sledgehammer breaks it down for you all in The Farm Bill, The Farm Bill, The Farm Bill. Living in this post-modern world, I appreciate his old-fashioned identity theory:
They pay the farmers not to farm!! If they are farmers who do not farm, what are they?
Yes, a $307 billion dollar package full of pork…if there’s one thing that the Farm Bill isn’t, it’s transparency. And Congress better shape up or ship out ’cause Americans dig honest, open government.
Thank you Cozcommunio for the perfect case in point…
A 19 year-old college freshman has been elected the Mayor of Muskogee, Oklahoma. Not kidding…he defeated a 3-term former mayor who outspent him 10 to 1. How? A platform of transparency and open government.
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