Category Archives: Blogging

WordPress and Fantastico

Blogging

I was delighted when I saw I could create and manage a WordPress blog through my Web host’s Fantastico interface. I immediately set up this blog and began writing. However I now am concerned because I’ve tried to upgrade to WordPress 2.2xx with no success. The interface on my host doesn’t seem to work. Not happy.

Speaking of popularity

Blogging

Ok. I know this blog is not at all popular, but another blog I manage is — a little. I set up the HTCA.net weblog for our neighborhood -as a way to get some information out to folks in Huntington Terrace. Because our usually quiet neighborhood is in a battle with a neighborhood hospital about their expansion plans, we’ve gotten some media attention.

Looking at the stats on the other weblog, I see that the hospital in question has visited us on key dates:

  • May 23 – The hospital held a meeting for area residents and unveiled its plan for expansion.
  • June 6 – the date after the neighborhood met to vote on the hospital’s plans (we voted nearly unanimously to reject the plans)
  • June 17 – the day an article came out in the Washington Post about the issue
  • June 19 – the day the Gazette published an article about it
  • June 25 – the day WJLA ran a piece about this on the 5:00 news

Other visitors have been The Washington Post, The Gazette, and WJLA.

They will find nothing though. We are not publishing anything about the issue on he weblog. It’s fun to view the stats.

One Million Birder Project

Birds, Blogging

I ran across the Birdfreak blog a few days ago (they’re located in a town not too far from where I grew up). They’d like to compile a list of a million birders in the US. Here is what they say:

The One Million Birders Project is a lofty goal to get a list of names of 1,000,000 birders. This list is not to create a mailing list; it is just a way to quantify the number of birders there are in the U.S. It is the hopes that together, one million birders can create a big difference in conservation and habitat restoration efforts.

You can sign up on their website: http://birdfreak.com/million/