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Many of the long-time regulars here may remember "Bakosphere," from our Typepad-hosted staff-blog days. Started under the radar in December of 2005 by a team of staffers from TBC's interactive media department and the newsroom webteam, Bakosphere was a bunch of different...
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We've been talking about it for a while, and now we finally have a date! The first of a continuing series of Bakersfield.com blogger meet-ups will be on Saturday, March 17 (yes, St. Patrick's Day) at 3:30 p.m. at Dagny's Coffee Company on the corner of 20th and Eye Streets downtown....
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n-gage, our e-newsletter about all things interactive on Bakersfield.com, goes out to your inboxes every Thursday at 10 a.m. Tomorrow's will be issue number 2. To make sure you don't miss a single edition, including a new "neighbor" profile every week, click here to sign up...
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I know, you've been afraid to hope, but finally, it's here.
No longer will your lovingly typed text disappear from the comment submission form at the bottom of blog posts when you mistype the anti-spam code. Go ahead. Test it. I did. It works! Not only will your...
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The biggest Kern County trial in years has just started, and we’ve created an in-depth section to help you stay on top of developments.
“The Trial of Vincent Brothers” features:
An interactive Flash feature that breaks out detail on the people involve in...
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n-gage, our new email newsletter about all things interactive on Bakersfield.com, launches today with its first issue, set to go out to your inboxes at 10 a.m. this morning. Click here to sign up now (scroll down to find n-gage) so you won't miss an issue. Every Thursday at 10 a.m.,...
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Bakersfield.com's online community is growing--both in numbers of users and in the variety of things you can do here. You can network with others via profiles. You can express your opinions by writing blog posts and commenting on the blogs of your neighbors. You can review your...
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FYI, the entire site—People stuff, Inside Guide, news, etc.—will be down between 1:30 a.m. and 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, February 11, due to some scheduled systems maintenance. Have a good weekend, and if you haven't already checked out the Inside Guide to Dining, click on over and...
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FYI, we've been made aware that a registered user named monrobert225 has been using the "send a message" button on user profile pages to spam B.commers with a variation on the ubiquitious West African bank account scam.
We apologize if you've been targeted. Our "send a...
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We all know that the bloggers and commenters of Bakersfield.com hold strong opinions and aren't afraid to share them. We also know, from the occasional food-related post and comment thread, that people here like to eat. Now, we're happy to unveil a place where you can combine all of...
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You may have noticed that we’ve added a pulldown menu to our search engine at the top of each page.
While this does add an extra step to your searches, it will improve your results. We’re having difficulty consolidating all the search engines for the various features on...
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We have just launched Inside Guide to Dining, an interactive directory that lets you to rate and review local restaurants. As time goes on, we’ll be expanding Inside Guide into other categories by rolling out listings for more local businesses. Think of it as Yellow Pages on steroids....
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...or if you were having trouble and want to know why, here's how someone who knows better than me (Sr. Project Manager for Digital Products Dan Pacheco):
If you're heard from people who can't get to Bakersfield.com and the People pages, but you can, please pass this on to them.
We...
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From 12 midnight tonight until about 5 a.m. PST tomorrow morning, Thursday, February 1st, blogs, profiles and all other People-related content will be inaccessible due to a server upgrade.
When the site goes back up, however, you'll find a few new surprises. First, the People page, your...
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We’ve just launched a fun section called Applause.
Applause is a spot for news to celebrate: Weddings, anniversaries, engagements for now, and later births, graduations and other announcements.
You’ll find lots of names and photos, as well as fun interactive features like a...
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Attention all you dedicated bloggers and commenters who are up late or up early at your keyboards: we have an outage scheduled for tonight (or tomorrow, depending on your point of view).
From 1 a.m. to about 5 a.m. PST on Thursday, January 25, you won't be able to access the blogs,...
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My second post on this blog, “Community Rules,” and my last post before the end of the year, “All in Moderation?” were about a subject that, when I bring it up, makes a lot of the regulars around here moan and groan (or worse). But, as the saying goes, the more...
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We at Bakersfield.com have been stunned by the generosity of so many local people who have contributed goods and money to our holiday homeless project.
On Wednesday, these two wonderful children (shown to your left) stopped by our offices to donate items for the project. Kaleb, 7, and Naomi...
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Bakersfield.com has launched its bigger and better Jobs section, which is loaded with new features and a new look. We think it continues to be the best source of local jobs anywhere!
For job seekers, our new features allow you to:
Search ads by any number of possibilities,...
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I am sure lately you have noticed we have been having alot of contests on the site! We are planning on making this a regular practice! Right now, you can win movie tickets! Go to http://www.bakersfield.com/... to enter to win and come back because we will have many more contests to win!
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Good morning everybody! Just a few things I wanted to alert you to:
First, if you go to the People page, you'll find the new "Blog Bytes" box in the top lefthand corner, where I'll be highlighting interesting posts. Keep checking back to see what's going on on the B.com...
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We've rolled out a few new features today on Bakersfield.com that we hope you find useful.
First, we’ve changed our site registration process. From now on, we’re allowing all new visitors to view up to four pages before we ask them to register. And the only personal...
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As a long-time lurker before starting this job, I was already familiar with some of our community's, um, stronger personalities. As I was reflecting the other day on my first month here, full of happy moments like when I got called a stupid fascist for the first time, I realized...
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I started dating my wife, Beverly, in late 1997 and immediately became attatched to her daughter, Tricia, and her grandson, Ryan, who was ten at the time. He loved dirtbikes and I rode and raced them, and he and I were off and running from then on! I was injured racing in 2000, the day after...
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Good morning folks! I hope you got a chance to read Steve Swenson's "Real People" profile on our own "surfer grandma," NancyII, which was published this morning on page B1 of the Californian.
If you've always wanted to put a face to the name, you can also find the story...
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Our development team has been working on fixing the bugs you've been sending my way since the upgrade, and as of right now, the following bugs are squashed and their fixes are live on the site:
On the "new comments" list, commenters' names, as well as the names of the posts...
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Hopefully you all saw the Bakersfield.com homepage this morning. Every day, a slideshow box highlights five stories or TBC products, with graphics and links to more information. The third tab on the box today, "Airport holdup," features our front-page print story on six...
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Thank you for the running list of issues you've been posting in the comments on my previous entry. As of Tues. morning at 10 o'clock, here's what I can tell you:
The following issues are already being addressed and the fixes will go live probably within the next couple weeks, if not...
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Just a heads-up to let you know that our development team worked tirelessly through the night and as you log in this morning, all of your favorite Bakersfield.com interactive community features are now upgraded.Unfortunately, if you posted comments or new blog posts in the wee hours of the...
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“We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better...stronger...faster.” —“The Six Million Dollar Man”
This weekend, we’re upgrading Bakersfield.com to version 2.0 of the software platform that runs all the features...
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Just saw this post on our sister site, Bakotopia, which serves as a vibrant on-line community of local musicians, artists, writers, and other lovers of the local arts and entertainment scene. Blogger and local musician Lil' Nemo recently put up this list of Bakocentric in-jokes, along...
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Yesterday blogger Erik Bako posted a critique of the daily reader's poll that appears at the bottom of the Bakersfield.com homepage. His main criticism was of the often tongue-in-cheekish text that accompanies the “yes,” “no,” and “maybe” choices, and he...
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We’re planning to install a major upgrade to the software that delivers our email newsletters, and to accomplish that, we’re going to shut down the mail server for an extended time beginning this afternoon. That means some newsletters (such as News Alerts, Oil News, and possibly...
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I was poking through some of our site stats today, and I continue to be overwhelmed by the growing traffic we're getting through RSS feeds.
We've offered RSS feeds (also known as web feeds) for many of our news features for awhile but will be spending more time developing these in the coming...
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Beginning today, we've introduced a security feature on bakersfield.com's People pages called a "Captcha test" that is designed to keep automated "bots" from delivering spam onto our blogs, profiles, etc.
These Captcha tests, which are common all over the Web, are...
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Halloween is less than two weeks away, but we've been busy at bakersfield.com feeding with our Halloween Haunts blog.
It's a ton of fun, and features stuff like:
--A thread on haunted buildings in Bakersfield. Check out which places your fellow bloggers say are haunted.
--What's your...
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You may have noticed something different on parts of Bakersfield.com beginning today (if you didn’t, visit our homepage or multimedia library and take a look around).
Three main improvements:
You’ll find a slideshow at the top of the homepage that highlights some of the good...
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As we roll out new features on bakersfield.com (and we've got a bunch this year), it's important that we get honest feedback from real people during the development process so that when we do launch, we've minimized the bugs and improved usability (how's that for a $10 word?) for a diverse group...
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I'll use this blog as a guide to Bakersfield.com (also known as B-dot-com) and let you know about new and upcoming features, as well as listen to your feedback as the site gets bigger and better. I'd also love to hear ideas on what features you'd like to see added.
Constructive criticism is...
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Well everyone, whether you like it or not, you're in now.
I'm Brandon Plotnick, the Assistant Sports Editor here at The Californian. I wanted to get this blog started so we can keep everyone in the community posted on what's going on around our sports department.
I'm not going to fill you...
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