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So, apparently, in the wake of a software upgrade earlier in the week (mostly back-end improvements), we've encountered a few bugs. Several of you have reported that the RTE (that's "rich text editor," a.k.a. the box that lets you post comments or blog entries or reviews and...
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January 19th
11:30am Eastern
10:30am Central
9:30am Mountain
11:30am Pacific
Time and availability will vary. Be sure to check local listings for the programming provider in your area. Satellite programming may be at 8:30am
Pre Paid...
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January 19th
Saturday
11:30am Eastern
10:30am Central
9:30am Mountain
11:30am Pacific for Cable TV 8:30am for Satellite Viewers
Time and availability will vary. Be sure to check local listings for the programming provider in your area....
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Great News for Wade Hayes fans!
I have purchased 100 tickets for the WADE HAYES WEEKEND @ the new Blackboard Stage (Trout's Nightclub) at a HUGE discount and I am personally offering the following special, general admission ticket price to my MySpace, Bakotopia, and...
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ISSUE #17 IS HERE, YO!
WHAT'S IN STORE THIS WU-BANGIN' ISSUE?
HIP-HOP CULTURE HITS BAKO!
(CLICK ON THE COVER BELOW
AND FIND A RACK NEAR YOU!)
WANNA SEE YOUR WORDS AND PICTURES IN THE NEXT ISSUE? LOG-ON TO WWW.BAKOTOPIA.COM, AND START POSTING! BRING US YOUR NEWS AS YOU WANT IT REPORTED!
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KaBOOM! is a national nonprofit organization that envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in North America. KaBOOM! brings together parents, community leaders and corporate partners to facilitate the group planning and design of new community playspaces. Our goal is...
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Recently, there has been a lot of talk about the city making curbside recycling mandatory. And many people have criticized the city for this plan, because it would impose an annual fee of around $36. Now, it's my turn to show off my criticism.
We all know that the city will be...
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The Bakersfield Californian's charitable giving program, TBC Gives, is at the tail-end of its second annual "My First Library" children's book drive. Hopefully you've seen the print ads in the paper, but here's the skinny:
We're collecting new and gently used children's...
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Here are a few more of my favorites not in Inside Guide.
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Walgreens
See "Bryan's Reviews."
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Walmart
Location: Rosedale Hwy and Coffee Road (in the Northwest Promenade) next to Best Buy
My rating: 3 stars
Average money spent: I can't...
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The following are my thoughts on places I have ate at and would like to have posted a review on, but can't since they don't appear in the Inside Guide. This blog will be edited/deleted if and when these places do appear in the Inside Guide. I've tried emailing the Californian/Inside...
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www.bakersfield.com/hourly_news/story/247760.html
I'm heartbroken over this story... I'm sad for this boy and his family and I'm angry that someone would hurt a child-especially sexually. (I realize it happens all the time because I'm constantly, it seems, reading a news story about...
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FYI all, we've been alerted by one of your virtual neighbors here that another spammer, with the username "henjob," was using our "send a message" feature on public profiles to send out yet another version of the ever-popular African money deposit scam to B.commers. ...
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If you haven't heard already, the Blitz arenafootball2 team is likely going to fold. Unfortunately, we all knew this was going to happen about 3 years ago. That's too bad. I enjoyed going to their games and am going to miss seeing arena football here, even though...
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Do you think cheerleading is a sport? I believe it is, even though I never did it myself. Here is my argument as to why. First, it is athletic and competitive. Second, cheerleaders perform many stunts and do lots of gymnastics and dancing. Third, there's a risk of...
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Well, most of my blogs have been on somewhat serious issues, so here's a fun one. What are your top 5 places to eat in Bakersfield? Here are mine, and you can see all of my favorites and reviews by looking at the section of my profile titled "Bryan's Reviews." New...
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Hello all... Several of you have reported to me that you've been spammed by a user named "david2007" via our send-a-message feature and by profile guestbook postings. Thanks to all who reported it, and rest assured that as soon as the first one came in, the account was...
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As some of you may know already, The Californian recently made some changes to the newspaper. They removed the TV section, changed the weather section twice (the second one was actually a good one), and have once again failed to preview other high school sports except...
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Happy belated birthday to my blog!
(Its real birthday was yesterday, but oh well.)
It's been fun blogging, and I've had the chance to get to know some of the frequent posters on B.com. You all have helped me see different points of view and given me tips for stories on a number of...
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Last Sunday, TBC published its annual Kern Life guide, full of information and resources for living in Kern County. It was put together this year by Contributions Editor Jennifer Baldwin, who also runs our Your Words citizen journalism program. For those of you who didn't get a copy,...
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*You got any? Heh.
Okay, really though... Some thoughtful and concerned citizens of our beloved online community here have raised some questions about how and why users are "banned," to use their terminology.
Not to be nitpicky, but we don't use the term "ban." ...
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Encountering any bugs lately, or functions on the site not working the way they should? While many of you faithfully email us detailed descriptions of problems, complete with helpful screenshots (those are great, and get sent to the development team), this thread is another way for you to...
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Happy Monday, everybody! Instead of just opening the thread to questions about how features of the site work or how to address technical problems encountered here, we're gonna switch things up a bit today. Of course, feel free to ask questions about any problems you've been having on...
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First things first: the bug that's responsible for logging users off (especially when their Bakersfield.com browser windows have been sitting idle for a bit) and forcing them to log back on multiple times should be fixed early this week. We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank all of...
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Okay, last week saw our latest software upgrade roll-out, so that, of course, meant much of the end of the week was spent catching and fixing little bugs here and there. We apologize for any inconveniences or technical difficulties you may have experienced, and thank you for the heads-up...
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FYI, our development team is aware of a problem involving signing into and out of Bakersfield.com accounts and losing blogpost and comment text, and is working on the issue as we speak.
Thanks to those who contacted us directly about the problem, and we apologize for the inconvenience. ...
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I know a bunch of you frequent this part of the blogosphere late at night (I know because I have to read all your middle-of-the-night comments when I come in to work in the morning!), so this is for you:
We have an outage scheduled to start at about midnight PDT tonight, and hopefully it will...
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Some folks have been getting a little impatient ever since I let slip, in response to some comments, that we were indeed going to eliminate the ability for users to comment anonymously on Bakersfield.com. Surprised and aghast that said change didn't happen, magically, over night, more and...
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Be a Bakersfield.com Friend & Win
Want some free goodies? Enter our contest and we'll hook you up!
Who can win?
Anyone!
What can you win?
-The grand prize winner will receive a $25 gift certificate to their choice of establishments:
Starbucks, Amazon.com, Best...
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TBC columnist Leonel Martinez explains why he no longer comments on blogs in today's column: basically, it's because of us.
Bloggers, that is.
The column's title, by the way, is "Owning up to views not the blogger way."
He goes to great lengths to assure us that he's not...
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Well, it's Monday, which means its question time at New Users Click Here. Any technical difficulties popping up on Bakersfield.com for you? Any newbies have questions about how to do certain things?
Last week one user emailed to say that, for him, the "preview" function...
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Just got one of Bakersfield.com's handy-dandy email news alerts, with a headline so awesome you just have to click it (even though you pretty much know all you need to know just from the headline):
Deputy testifies that elderly Bakersfield pig farmer beat him with paint roller
--Jason Sperber
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If you're a subscriber to our Daily Digest email newsletter (and many of you are; it's our second-most popular newsletter), you've become accustomed to a pretty generic daily overview of The Californian's news and opinion delivered every day at 6 a.m. Pacific.
On Tuesday, we...
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Well, we accidentally skipped a couple weeks here at New Users Click Here, but we're back! We do get emails from folks when they're having technical difficulties, and that's great, but this is a place where you can ask questions about how things work (or how they should or shouldn't work)...
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I have a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach right now. I just made a difficult judgment call, and did what I hoped I'd never have to do here. I just deleted two blogposts by Bakersfield.com community members, not because of the content of the original posts, but because the...
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A TBC editorial that will be in tomorrow's paper just went up on the Editorials blog, citing "Californian reader and letter to the editor writer Curtis Dalton" for waging a 10-year campaign to get Caltrans to post signs warning of the dangers of swimming in the Kern River at the mouth...
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Most of you are aware that regular Bakersfield.com blogger BMWeerman, a.k.a. Cameron Weckerley, is in a Farmington, New Mexico hospital right now, recovering from a major motorcycle accident, with blogger Camsgirl, a.k.a. his wife Patti, by his side. Patti has been keeping our community...
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Bakersfield.com Blogger Meetup
Saturday, May 19
3:30 to 6 p.m.
Dagny's Coffee Company
1600 20th St., Downtown Bakersfield
Coffee and cookies on us, conversation on you!
Let us know if you're coming here.
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Today's my first day back on the job after almost 2-and-a-half-weeks on vacation, and let me tell you, you all have been keeping busy! It took an hour-and-a-half this morning to sort through about 1200 emails (a mix of spam and violation reports), and I've been spending the rest of the day...
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It's Monday again, and that means that it's time for another open thread where newbies and veterans alike can post their questions about the workings of Bakersfield.com's interactive features - how to do stuff, technical difficulties, ideas for improvements, etc. So, let 'em rip!
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Got a question about Bakersfield.com? Post it in the comments and we'll see if we can find an answer for you. As part of this weekly open thread, you can ask questions about how this site works, report any technical difficulties you've been encountering, ask how to do a particular...
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It's Monday, and that means it's time for another open thread where you can ask questions about how this site works, any technical difficulties you've been encountering, how you can do a particular thing, etc. Jason's on vacation, so I (Matylda) will be filling this week and next to field...
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It's Monday, and that means it's time for another open thread where you can ask questions about how this site works, any technical difficulties you've been encountering, how you can do a particular thing, etc. So ask away!
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Come meet your online neighbors for some scintillating offline conversation (and drinks and cookies on us)!
Where: Dagny's Coffee Company, 1600 20th St., Downtown Bakersfield
When: 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, April 21, 2007
Check out photos from last time here.
Let us know...
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Come meet your online neighbors for some scintillating offline conversation (and drinks and cookies on us)!
Where: Dagny's Coffee Company, 1600 20th St., Downtown Bakersfield
When: 3:30 p.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday, April 21, 2007
Check out photos from last time here.
Let us know...
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Bakersfield.com Community Content Coordinator Jason Sperber here!
New Users Click Here (hat-tip to TomW for the name and idea and to RogerA for the inspiration) is a place where B.commers can ask site-related, technical questions.
Confused about how things work here, or can't figure out how to...
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I've been at this job, working with all of you on a daily basis, for five months now. That means that these blogs have existed with a Community Content Coordinator now for the same amount of time that they existed, post-launch, without such a position in place. While some of you...
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Today's meetup of bakersfield.com bloggers and contributors was a lot of fun.
We had about a dozen bloggers show up for coffee, cookies, conversation, and some bakersfield.com swag. And it was great to see TomW, who was visiting from the Bay area.
It was great to meet some of...
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Hopefully, chillin' over a cup of coffee with us at Dagny's!
Bakersfield.com Blogger/Commenter Meet-Up
3:30 to 6 p.m.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Dagny's Coffee Company
20th and Eye Streets, Downtown
We provide the drinks and food, you provide the talk and company. This is the first of a...
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Sometimes I marvel that someone actually pays me to work for bakersfield.com. I mean, I work at a great place for and with great people who dream big and strive to get better each day. And add to that, we have great readers who share their time and passion to make our site more...
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Today I had the honor of representing Bakersfield.com, along with newsroom blogger Steve Swenson and interactive media marketing manager Mary Russo, at the United Way of Kern County's 17th annual Professional Development Conference for Nonprofits. Steve was on a panel about how nonprofit...
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