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What is a Blog?
So I’ve been thinking about what exactly this website is. I notice when I’m trying to gather information from sources and they don’t want to talk to me they say in a very condescending way “you’re site is just a blog”. But many people say “I love reading your blog”. And then I heard CCFOG say that people need to stop reading the local blogs, so does that mean that the CCFOG group tells everyone to stay away from my site because it is a “local blog”? Or how about other local websites like Tom Freel’s or Patrick McGee’s? Read Below for quotes…..
Is the Daily Astorian a local blog because they send all their articles to Google’s Blog Section? Is my site not a blog because I don’t? Is the Oregonian a local blog because they sometimes cover the North Oregon Coast and they call many of their articles “blogs”? Is it good or bad to be a “blog”?
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On Apr 4, 6:25 AM, Guy wrote:
I’ve heard that web-logs (blogs) are sites with daily updates, however your site is a commercial site and will be more-so when you get the ads up and running. Blog is just a buzz word.
I’m sure CCFOG would also discourage people from reading any opinion contrary to theirs, be it on the internet or fliers dropped from a plane. They have a nebulous view of openness where it applies to everyone but them. They should welcome the debates that blogs start. If their message is straight and true they should be able to handle the points that are raised.
On Apr 4, 10:04 AM, what was that? wrote:
CCFOG told people not to read the local blogs? When? Where?
On Apr 4, 10:09 AM, THartill wrote:
Roger Rocka said it on Tom Freel the morning after the Election.
On Apr 4, 10:17 PM, scott wrote:
No, he didn’t.
It just so happens that I taped the show that day. Here’s the word-for-word transcript of what Roger said that day:
Roger Rocka: “...If the commission kind of retreated behind the battlements and said ‘okay now we’ve got to find somebody to appoint here who thinks as we think, who’ll vote as we vote so we can continue this sort of 4 to 1 push to whatever we want to happen on the board - the vote shows us that we have a divergence of viewpoints in this county and a divergence of viewpoints in district 3 - we think the county commission ought to represent that divergence of viewpoints, and not all the, uh, leaning on one side. So that’s sort of the substance of it, and, you know, I would like to just say “no, we won’t do another recall’ - and we probably won’t, I, I think you characterised it ....wh, what happens in the future is, does something happen badly enough that it makes us, you know, overcome our desire not to get in this confrontational situation, you know it’s not fun,"(Tom Freel says, “No” in agreement.) “and what we’ve discovered I think in this process is there’s sort of underbelly to our community - if you read the blogs at all, you almost want to wear a radiation suit and take a shower afterwards, (Tom Freel laughs sympathetically) you know there’s all these anonymous postings on the blogs that are just filled with slime - and I’m thinking “Oh my God, is this coming out of our community?’ “
Tom Freel interrupts and says: “Roger, this is why, you know, in terms of attitude adjustment, every once in a while you’ve just gotta not look at the internet...” (chuckles)
Roger: “Well that’s certainly true, and for the most part I think that’s what most of us did, we said, ‘Oh, you know, we just can’t look at that stuff’, (Tom Freel says, “Right.") “um, but , you know, you kind of characterised the reason we did this in the first place against Richard as that he was the sort of the easiest target, and that actually isn’t what was going on in our minds ...” (goes back to talking about recall issue)…
I can send you a copy of the tape if you’d like to hear it for yourself, Tryan.
On Apr 5, 1:04 AM, THartill wrote:
Well there you go I stand corrected....
On Apr 5, 1:34 AM, Sweet Pea wrote:
I find it typical that a certain “someone” who starts and abandons blogs right and left plagiarized all of the quotes they wanted to make a point of showing some certain side (the “under"side?) and put it over on some blog called macfilthy or something like that, often ransacking quotes out of context or out of a sequence of a series of others quotes or mid discussion. Completely leaving out his friends’ rants and raves. And now a certain someone points out how bad people can be!?!! Hypocrisy!
The plagiarizer didn’t ransack any of the junk that “hmmmm” or “sniff” wrote, nor McGee, nor Luke nor many of the other foul mouths at KAST. Nor the foul, foul, foul things that were written about orgies etc ... on the old NCO. Nor, as a matter of fact, anything Scott wrote.
Hm, is there anyone else we know that started two, three or four sites under different names until they settled on the one with the “perfect” sound? I wonder if a Mcfilthy Board was elected in an OPEN process, wrote up a charter of what they would consider archiving and if we were all privy to that information? Or do you think they met in secret and colluded about who would sit on their board, only picking people who would serve their self serving intentions?
Per norm, pick and choose, pick and choose what to show and what to acknowledge. You find what you are looking for in this community. If you are so immature that you need to paint horns on everything you disagree with. If you can’t act in a mature manner and actually talk to people who happen to disagree with you and just agree to disagree. If you can’t have unconditional love for a community with all of its lumps and bumps then I respectfully suggest you leave it.
Tryan, take Scott up on his offer. After the 4-123 campaign was over many people found out that more than a few bits of Price’s “transcripts” that she typed from the tapes of budget meetings and radio shows were far from verbatim. The transcripts were not true nor accurate.
You didn’t need to drag us through this process. Anyone looking for for the ugly underbelly of something can usually find it by looking in the mirror.
On Apr 5, 3:57 AM, A Proud Native wrote:
Regarding Sweat Pea and her rant - What on earth are you blathering about? Is this some secret code or what? I am going to try and decipher, something about “someone” and some blog called macfilthy and some friends’ rants and raves. And then something about some plagiarizer and some junk that “hmmmm” or “sniff” and the foul mouths at KAST. And the foul, foul, foul orgies on the old NCO.
And then more about a Mcfilthy Board and a charter about a privy to talk about secrets on a board, and picking on people serving intentions? (Wha?)
Then you go on about some guy named norm, pick and choose, pick and choose immature painting horns on everything and something about unconditional love of lumps and bumps.
And then you go on about some ugly underbelly of “something can usually find it by looking in the mirror.”
Wow! Perhaps you should put the bottle down the next time you board the old computer.
On Apr 5, 4:32 AM, norm per wrote:
On Apr 5, 2:57 AM, A Proud Native wrote:
I am going to try and decipher, something about “someone” and some blog called macfilthy
Here...we’ll make it easy for you to decipher
http://puretfilth.blogspot.com/
On Apr 5, 6:16 AM, Big Show wrote:
Don’t you love this scott dude (is that a first name or last name) says’s his taping is verbatim, could be we don’t know, don’t care. But he has to add in parenthesis that ( Tom Freel laughed sympathetically) What does a sympathy laugh sound like? Even when verbatim just can’t help to intercede with his own opinion.
On Apr 7, 1:17 PM, Mom of Three wrote:
I’ve been a transcriptionist for years, and you never transcribe what you think the laughter is about. You just transcribe [laughs] and move on.
Blogs are anything the blogger wants them to be. Some people choose one topic, such as politics, others mix it up, others update friends about their lives. There is no hard and fast definition.