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As I write this, we’re a few hours from going live with a new content-management system to publish staff news stories. The improvements for now are mostly under the hood, and we purposely tried to keep visible changes to a minimum but we’ll be rolling out some very cool bells...
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We're following a situation where the servers are under high load, and thus any slowness in pageloads, timing out, or other wonkiness (like having to log back in sooner than normal) are tied to this. We're investigating and will keep you posted. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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If you sign up to receive our news alerts you may be wondering why you've been inundated with the same "Kern's unemployment hits 13.8 percent" alert multiple times.
While this is indeed a newsworthy issue, it doesn't bear repeating about 10 times.
We're working on getting this...
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Q: Is TBC going to have the “Race to Victory” fantasy NASCAR game they had last year?
That was fun!!!
Thanks,
Elizabeth Moore
A: While several hundred people played Race To Victory last year, we were unable to secure a sponsor to help cover our costs. And with no sponsor...
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Our top 10 blog posts of 2008 list released Tuesday only included staff-written blogs posts. There was a simple reason for that: None of you lot made the top 10 list!
Still, this is an equal opportunity blog, so with that in mind here's the top 10 citizen blog posts of 2008 list.
1. Scanner...
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In the past two days we've brought you the top 10 local news stories and the top 10 local videos of 2008, but it's the top blog list you've really been clamoring for. So without any further ado, here are the top 10 bakersfield.com blog posts of 2008 (based on page views):
1. BAKOSPHERE
How...
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In the same vein as yesterday's top 10 local news stories of 2008 list, Bakosphere is proud to present the top 10 bakersfield.com videos of 2008. We'd like to especially thank kung-fu Ken Mettler for providing the only comic relief in an otherwise sad and morbid list.
Here it is:
1. Mettler...
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The following list is based on online page views (the drag racing death story had more than 20,000 views):
1. Drag racer dies at March Meet
2. Car dealer regrets ads urging non-Christians to 'sit down and shut up'
3. City lawyer arrested for allegedly stealing Sausage McMuffins
4. Missing...
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FYI, all Bakomatic sites, including Bakersfield.com's blogs and interactive features, will be inaccesible for about 5 minutes on Tuesday morning, December 30, starting at 8:00 a.m.
The sites will be down to allow for the merging of the Northwest Voice and Southwest Voice sites into the new...
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From 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. tonight, Bakersfield.com and all its sister sites will be unavailable due to a hardware upgrade. If you are on the sites tonight, please log out of your accounts. When you return, we'll be on the new servers, which will hopefully serve to alleviate a lot of the...
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So, of course it has to happen that on a weekend during which I, unfortunately, have no internet access at my house (a situation which hopefully will be rectified soon), things get, shall we say, a little heated around here. Or more than normal, rather.
You know that I make it a personal...
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Now the elections season is way behind us and silly sign stealing stories are long forgotten, it's time for a new rash of criminal behavior to rear its ugly, costumed head.
And it's no coincidence the new crime wave is coming a month after Halloween, when most sane folks have long put away their...
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Good morning, B.commers! I have a few site-related things I need to talk about, the first of which is something we need your feedback on a.s.a.p., so please leave a comment below.
First, we all know that the originally 15 minute, now 5 minute cache refresh on /recentblogcomments,...
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"Covering the stories other won't already have."
Yesterday, the Channel 29/58 combo team posted on its Investigations page a story about Frazier Park residents being upset over the amount of no-burn days they've had to contend with since being lumped in with the same air-quality...
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Based on how many times a Web site is mentioned in the blogosphere, ://urlfan ranks almost 3 million Web sites to see which one is most popular.
Bakersfield.com comes in at 3,141 out of 2,815,144 sites.
Here are a few other rankings:
No. 1: en.wikipedia.org
No. 2: flickr.com
No. 3:...
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For a period of about 2 hours this morning, all Bakomatic-powered sites were off-line due to a database problem which has now been addressed. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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We've been scrolling through some recent reader entries at our Your Words section and we must share a couple with you.
In one, "Searching for Bob," a woman tries to locate her son's father:
"One thing I know about Bob is that he has some kind of skin condition that produces cyst...
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FYI, we are aware of site problems including increased page-load times on Bakomatic-powered pages and pages with Bakomatic feed content (like the homepage), logged-in users being logged out and forced to log back in even when they had just logged in (myself included), and error messages marking...
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Go here to read what bloggers are saying about fellow blogger Old Blue's absence.
He never let one of bakosphere's rare typo/punctuation errors go unnoticed.
Well miss him!
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Truxtun Avenue editor Nick Belardes has graded Bakersfield media on its campaign coverage.
Here's a quick rundown:
BAKERSFIELD.COM: "biggest media staff around" B
KBAK: "a huge online disappointment" F
KERO: "You can tell they aren't sending their pieces in to get...
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Okay, a few things...
First, we rolled out a software upgrade late last night that primarily had to do with improvements to our Inside Guide interactive business directory, where many of you post reviews. Please check out the new review page designs and new business listings and...
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Some of you are probably going to wonder why it took us this long and why we let the situation go for so long, and for that, all I can say is sorry and hindsight is 20/20.
But from now on, the creation of usernames/personas intended only to mock other B.com users is not okay. If you...
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It's about as scientific as licking your finger, sticking it in the air and claming to know which way the wind's blowing, but nevertheless, our 'who won the debate' poll on bakersfield.com proclaimed a clear winner:
Barack Obama.
We're always debating if our online readers have the same...
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Our new threaded, topical discussion forums are another way for B.commers to talk with each other about what's on their minds. Whereas blogs are great for telling longer stories and generating discussions in the comment thread based on the original post, our discussion forums are perfect...
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Last year, Bakersfield.com launched its SNAP! community photo galleries by sending local students to their schools' varsity football games, taking photos of the crowd, handing out cards telling their subjects that they'd been "snapped," and uploading their photos to our website every...
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It's at Pizzaville on Saturday.
Go to TomW's blog for details and discussion.
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FYI, as many of you no doubt know from first-hand experience, Bakersfield.com and its associated sites were inaccessible from some time in the early morning until the issue was resolved at about 8:35 a.m. We apologize for the inconvenience, and invite you to alert us to any other site...
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I ran into Chad today, in front of the brand new Starbucks on the corner of Hageman and Calloway, some would say, by accident. But of course, I believe there are no such thing as accidents. A Dr. BLT interview with Chad Vegas is destined via divine intervention.
Well, perhaps...
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If you're a keen follower of our daily poll on bakersfield.com you may have noticed we've got more responses lately than would a fictional breaking news story involving Chad Vegas, a hairy runaway bear and a gleaming white spaceship piloted by Carl Cole.
We're almost at 2,000 responses to...
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It seems that folks only question whether I'm paying attention over here when I don't act on their complaints. That, or they get upset at me for paying attention if that attention centers on their online behavior in a way they don't agree with. At any rate, I make lots of you unhappy...
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How many of you are tired of all the litter that lines our streets? I know I am. I don't like seeing all the trash just piled up everywhere, where it is not supposed to be. I'm talking about littering and dumping. Both of these practices are illegal, but still happen way...
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Yes, there was art to enjoy last night at the opening of the new exhibits at the Bakersfield Museum of Art. But there were also meatballs. And bacon-wrapped dates. And fashionable people!
Some of the staff of The Bakersfield Californian — including the Lifestyles team which helped organize...
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Today, you will notice a change when you log into your account and glance over at your "My Stuff" box in the top right corner of People section pages. No longer will you see a huge profile picture and a bunch of big buttons leading to your profile manager.
Now, you will see a...
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TomW sent in these photos from the Festival of Beers! Thanks for the shout out by shooting the Bakersfield.com booth, TomW!
Text YOUR cell phone pics to mobile@bakersfield.com to have them posted here. Be a mobile photographer. Be a MoPho!
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Today, bloggers will notice some changes when they go to write a blogpost. Under the "title" field, you will see a "topics" field. Here, you are asked to "change the category of only this post" via a pull-down menu with 18 top-level category...
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What's a relay without a theme song? Well, the Relay for Life events would probably do quite well without me, but to set the tone for my contribution to the events, I would like to introduce this new theme song.
Hear it by hitting the play bar at the play station above the icon in...
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I was just wondering, being relatively new here in B'field and all, if there is anyone or any organization that takes the time to acknowledge MOTHER'S who might not have family to be with them or send them anything for Mother's day? Among the most obvious reasons I ask is that last year,...
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With all the actual events in today's world today that are WAY WAY WAY more important than this, I'm going to post this anyway. Maybe it's due to all the surrounding events that this is a little bit of an issue for me.
I logged on today to see "Elton John..Friday...April 18...Enter to...
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For all the debating and dare we say arguing that goes on within the Bakersfield.com blogosphere, the bloggers seem like a friendly bunch in person.
Saturday, about 20 of them (organized by TomW) met up at Dagny's to see just who is behind each online personality. If you ever read the blog...
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The annual Great Strides walk to cure Cystic Fibrosis is coming to Bakersfield on April 12, 2008 at The Park at Riverwalk located at Stockdale Hwy and Buena Vista Rd. I don't have a whole ton of info, but here's what I do know. The walk starts at 9:00 am (I think registration...
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What do you think of the March Madness so far? There sure have been some upsets in the first two rounds of the Men's tournament, including #2 Duke's loss to #7 West Virginia and UCLA barely beating Texas A&M (ok that isn't an upset, but it almost was). Now I'd like to see North...
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I wonder do teachers at CSUB and BC teach that socialism is good? If anyone has taken a class let me know.
I mean there is no society that has ever existed that socialism worked in favor of the people and right now we have the Democratic party nominating two people that think Socialism is a good...
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This matter is in regards to a Davis Funeral Home and Crematory a local funeral home here in Kern County owned by Michael Davis. I filed a complaint against Davis funeral home with the state of California funeral and cemetery bureau which lead to an investigation. The funeral home received a...
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Sometimes, especially after antagonistic flareups on these blogs, it certainly feels that way. That's not to say that non-virtual, offline, "real" communities are by any means necessarily better, or less conflict-filled, or anywhere near perfect, because we all know that that's...
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Hey, guys --
I was reading the blogs last week and Tom had mentioned something about perhaps starting a photography blog. No one said anything about it, but the next morning I was taking pictures of the fog and had time to think about it, and I found the idea intriguing.
So, Tom, if anyone else...
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Andy has been diagnosed with Hip Dysplasia. We met with Dr. Rooks today in Fountain Valley, CA. He wants Andy in for the TPO surgery on both hips in 9 days. Andy will also have to be double plated on each side. Until then Andy is not allowed to do anything other than walk on a leash outside to...
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Last night, we made some back-end upgrades to our network of sites to make sure that they can keep pace with all the amazing growth we are seeing in our online communities. Unfortunately, as many of you experienced, that upgrade came with some problems this morning, and we want to...
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Attention night owls: due to a software upgrade, the Bakomatic-powered parts of Bakersfield.com--namely, the interactive parts you contribute to every night--will be inaccessible tonight from 11 p.m. to at least 1 a.m.
[So fair warning, Nancy--don't start writing something at 10:58 and...
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Valentine's Day is around the corner and a lot of Bakersfield.com users are pouring their hearts out on our site.
As promoted in The Californian's Eye Street section, we're soliciting love poems from all you prose pros out there. Read a selection of submissions so far, or submit your own....
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