Comments on: Veepstakes in Alameda! http://www.johnknoxwhite.com/2008/10/03/veepstakes-in-alameda/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=veepstakes-in-alameda Mindfulness in the face of challenge. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:24:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kate Quick http://www.johnknoxwhite.com/2008/10/03/veepstakes-in-alameda/#comment-653 Kate Quick Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:59:27 +0000 http://johnknoxwhite.com/?p=490#comment-653 I hope you will add a link to our local League of Women Voters web site and to our election education site so that voters can read and listen to a lot of "unfiltered" information to prepare themselves to vote. www.smartvoter.org is a great site for getting in-depth, neutral information about the issues we will be voting on, and to look up where the candidates stand, too. Our local League site at www.alameda.ca.lwvnet.org has the dates, times and locations of our voter education sessions in October - several on pros and cons on the ballot measures and four candidate's nights - two each for school board and city council. Last day to register to vote is October 20, but everyone is encouraged to register as soon as possible - registration is very heavy this year and the county registrar needs some time to process your registration affadavit. I hope you will add a link to our local League of Women Voters web site and to our election education site so that voters can read and listen to a lot of “unfiltered” information to prepare themselves to vote.
http://www.smartvoter.org is a great site for getting in-depth, neutral information about the issues we will be voting on, and to look up where the candidates stand, too.
Our local League site at http://www.alameda.ca.lwvnet.org has the dates, times and locations of our voter education sessions in October – several on pros and cons on the ballot measures and four candidate’s nights – two each for school board and city council.
Last day to register to vote is October 20, but everyone is encouraged to register as soon as possible – registration is very heavy this year and the county registrar needs some time to process your registration affadavit.

]]> By: Edmundo Delmundo http://www.johnknoxwhite.com/2008/10/03/veepstakes-in-alameda/#comment-652 Edmundo Delmundo Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:15:40 +0000 http://johnknoxwhite.com/?p=490#comment-652 Well put, John. Lighten Up Francis INDEED! I noticed on a certain Alameda "Blog" today that a number of nasty entries were pulled off, forever banished to a local wastebasket (where they belong). The danger in blogging is that we all open ourselves up to this level of discourse. It's so easy to hit the comment button and snark with abandon. What's the penalty? The blog-owner pulls your comment and bars you from commenting ever again. The other danger in blogging, that I sense in our Isle-of-Blogsphere, is that our dear readers forget that we are all simply AMATEURS, utilizing a free medium to our hearts content. Neither you, nor Lauren D, nor I are professional journalists and for those of us who are, a Blog is not a commercial newspaper or periodical. The rules of fact checking, style and accountability are only exercised to the extent the writer cares to follow through. The blog is, in fact, the ultimate democratic form of personal, op-ed discourse. Rather than post letters to the editor, we now have the power to do so on our own. Well put, John. Lighten Up Francis INDEED!

I noticed on a certain Alameda “Blog” today that a number of nasty entries were pulled off, forever banished to a local wastebasket (where they belong).

The danger in blogging is that we all open ourselves up to this level of discourse. It’s so easy to hit the comment button and snark with abandon. What’s the penalty? The blog-owner pulls your comment and bars you from commenting ever again.

The other danger in blogging, that I sense in our Isle-of-Blogsphere, is that our dear readers forget that we are all simply AMATEURS, utilizing a free medium to our hearts content. Neither you, nor Lauren D, nor I are professional journalists and for those of us who are, a Blog is not a commercial newspaper or periodical. The rules of fact checking, style and accountability are only exercised to the extent the writer cares to follow through. The blog is, in fact, the ultimate democratic form of personal, op-ed discourse. Rather than post letters to the editor, we now have the power to do so on our own.

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