19 percent of Halfway To Concord poll respondents correctly pick Joe Biden as Barack Obama’s vice presidential pick
August 26, 2008
Congratulation to the 19 percent of you who participated in one of our recent polls, that correctly selected that Joe Biden would be the VP pick of Democratic Presidential Candidate, Barack Obama! Only Fast Eddie Rendell garnered more votes in the poll. You should all have blogs and make millions as political pundits!
Halfway To Concord tests support for Yahoo Upcoming
August 5, 2008
Halfway To Concord is happy to post Calendar items for non-profit fundraising, community, and political events. To that end we experiment here with a new Web 2.0 tech from Yahoo called UPCOMING. Essentially, you visit http://upcoming.yahoo.com, then you can publish news about your own upcoming events and refer to them on UPCOMING site on your own site if you want. You could also check on upcoming events listed in other cities or regions to help plan a vacation. So check it out and let us know what you think. We are going to play around with this to see how to best make it work for our readership.
Bloggers v. Associated Press
June 20, 2008
What is fair use? AP has been bullying a blogger and intends to rewrite standard for “fair use.”
Problem posters
June 17, 2008
Are you a troll? Here’s an interesting post on the never-ending question about problem posters. Take the test at the bottom to see if you are one.
SITE NEWS: Internet Exploder 6.x and remaining issues
May 8, 2008
INTERNET EXPLODER 6 (IE6)
After 10 days of troubleshooting we finally found and fixed the problem you may have experienced when using Internet Explorer 6.x. Suffice to say friends should not let friends use Internet Exploder 6, or other Microsoft products for that matter. Read more
Recent problem accessing site
April 22, 2008
The recent problem that caused many to have problems accessing this site has been fixed.
The LinkedList Plugin I installed Sunday (without testing—idiot) that would show when other local blogs published a new post is a neat Web 2.0 idea, but it created a conflict with some other script function accessing PHP.
This caused the cookies it placed in visitor browsers to cause browser problems when a visitor refreshed a page when visiting, causing them not to see site, or have Error:406 message or warnings from IE7 that it could not read the format of content offered by the blog.
The upshot was that it took about 24 hours to realize that even though the plugin had been deactivated and removed, the solution also required users to remove the cookies this conflict installed. It only affected one’s ability to access Halfway To Concord with no other impact.
That said, if you or a friend or colleague have experienced any such difficulties simply delete the cookies in your browser from Halfway To Concord, and start fresh.
And please let me know if you experience any other problems. I promise I will check things out more thoroughly and apologize for any confusion.
