Citizen Webitor

Sunday, June 1, 2008 11:11 AM EDT

Here's your forum for sounding off on the auburnpub.com Web site. Web coordinator Rich Bellamy will keep loyal site visitors up to date on site changes and troubleshooting efforts through this blog, and he looks forward to hearing from all of you. This will be a great place to report bugs or just ask questions about site features and how they work.

The Citizens' Say

There are 27 comment(s)

Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jul 28, 2008 4:47 PM:

" Anyone but me. "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Jul 27, 2008 3:27 PM:

" Then tell us to whom to complain? Believe me, we will! "

cm wrote on Jul 26, 2008 7:52 AM:

" I saw the goodmorning site--a good advertisement however, wouldn't it be better if you linked it to the actual PAPER? "

Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jul 24, 2008 9:39 AM:

" All I'll say about Two Cents in print is that if you complain to me you are barking up the wrong tree. I don't make those types of decisions.

Tell me, has anyone seen goodmorningcayuga.com yet? "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Jul 21, 2008 7:44 AM:

" The print edition of Two Cents draws in a whole 'nother population of readers and writers -- those who spend little to no time online. There was quite a following of those folks who have all been cut off.

The Citizen has tighter editorial control over which bits of Two Cents get published in the paper, so there is no reason for them to be afraid of lawsuits -- they just have to not pick bits to publish which could be trouble.

There really is no good reason to keep Two Cents out of the print edition of the newspaper. "

anonymous wrote on Jul 19, 2008 5:19 AM:

" Congratulations on the cute as a button addition to your family. Can you please encourage the return of Two Cents to the Print Edition? Even just two or three times a week will help revitalize this formerly awesome feature. As it is now, it is circling the drain and has become nothing but a forum for a group of local thugs to attack people who express an opinion that they think is wrong. I mean, cant you get those people their own room? "

Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jul 17, 2008 9:21 AM:

" A note on the TV listings you are seeing here and there.

On different sections of the site, you may see some new content appearing in the form of TV listings.

In the Local News section, we have a listing called "What to Watch" that highlights a few shows from each night of the upcoming week.

In the Opinion and Go sections, you will see the "Prime Time" listing, which gives you the after-8pm listings from the major networks.

In the Lake Life section, you can find the "Family Grid", which is a listing of the "Family-Friendly" channels and what is on them tonight.

And finally, in the Sports sections, we have two separate grids. The "Sports Grid" highlights any sports-related content on TV tonight. The "ML Baseball" grid shows you upcoming Major-League Baseball games, time and channel. Yes, you can select your favorite team and see only their games.

Let me know what you think of this new content. "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Jul 16, 2008 9:37 AM:

" Congrats on the new daughter.

Glad to hear you are working on the "More Two Cents" button.

Keep pressing for the return of Two Cents in print -- a lot of people miss it. "

Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jul 16, 2008 9:03 AM:

"

I'm back.

Sorry for the Hiatus. In the second half of June, I was very very busy around here with a few new projects that you will find out about in due time.

The first and second week of July saw me taking a lot of time off; my wife and I had our first child born on July 3rd.



And of course now I am playing catch-up with all that work and new projects.

So, to answer your queued-up questions:

A "Previous Two Cents" button is actually something I had thought up a while ago, and actually started working on, but other things took priority. Perhaps I will have to revisit that idea I seem to remember it was almost done.

Our movie listing come from a source who does not include the drive-in, for whatever reason. Soon we will be going to another provider for movie listings. The new provider includes the listings for the Finger Lakes Drive-in, we've already checked.

As far as I know, there are no plans for bringing Two Cents back to print. "

anonymous wrote on Jul 8, 2008 12:36 AM:

" Any Word on when you are going to return the Two Cents column to print? "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Jul 7, 2008 11:04 AM:

" Hi Used To Love Auburn -- Welcome.

If you have general comments, take them to the Two Cents page -- you'll get all the discussion you can handle!

Otherwise, a good place to post relevant comments is at the bottom of any article.

For example, at the bottom of the article/letter from the woman about her developmentally disabled son and how he was getting sent off to war, you will find a comment box exactly like the one here where you can post comments about that article.

Try the search feature if you started in the print newspaper and are looking for the right place to post your comments online -- try some keywords to see if you can find the appropriate article for your comments.

If you are concerned your comments will be overlooked, go to Two Cents -- people there always have something to say.

The Citizen won't censor/fail to post your words if they are in the "wrong" (i.e. inappropriate) place, but you'll find your comments will be more effective in reaching people interested in the same topic if you post them with the relevant article.

Good luck! "

used to love auburn wrote on Jul 3, 2008 10:56 PM:

" I am new to this posting and as I was told on July 3rd this was not the place for my comment. I thought it was for sounding off so I am asking the editors where I could post my comments.
Looks like this is the place for site changes, features etc. Thanks! "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Jul 3, 2008 12:16 PM:

" Thank you, editors!

(BTW, the comment about the misplaced posts was directed towards the misdirected posters, not the editors -- I should have put that comment in a separate post!)

Cheers and have a safe and happy holiday. "

Citizen editors wrote on Jul 3, 2008 10:56 AM:

" Our apologies ... Between time off and other duties, the Webitor has been unable to get to the blog lately. We will try to do better with updates when that happens.

As far as posts that seem out of place, we approve where people post them and don't think it would be a good idea for us to start moving them to the place where we think they'd best fit. That judgment is up to the poster. "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Jul 3, 2008 10:13 AM:

" Who are these people who keep posting general news comments to the Webitor blog?!?!??

Meanwhile, what's really weird is that SOMEONE has to be reading these comments before posting them, so SOMEONE sees that people are asking where's Rich and when is he going to respond, but there's been no response from the paper addressing our concerns at all. (It'd be different if it were all automated and no human at the newspaper had read this before posting it).

Hey, Citizen-employee-paid-to-review-our-posts -- I'm talking to you! Can you ask your boss to let the readers know what's going on with the webitor? Thanks! "

spanky wrote on Jul 2, 2008 10:27 PM:

" I hope someone had a good reason to re-do the recyling calendar on the new schedule. I saw many piles of newspapers mon. am. I have no problem saving another week, but the idea is to make it easy, espically on the elderly. The throwers(which do a great job and work hard)will just have more work next paper day. No big deal, just hope the reason warrented the inconvience. "

anonymous wrote on Jul 2, 2008 6:59 PM:

" I would really like to see the Two Cetns returned to the Print Edition "

anonymous wrote on Jul 2, 2008 5:07 PM:

" How about bringing back the Two Cents? "

Unknown... wrote on Jul 1, 2008 9:49 PM:

" Still waiting on word about the drive in listings too!!! "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Jul 1, 2008 6:08 PM:

" Rich, are you still there? You've made no response to any comment or suggestion since 11 June. Maybe a vacation? No law against that.... "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Jul 1, 2008 8:45 AM:

" Why the discussion of sending inmates to fight is here, I don't know -- it belongs elsewhere. But so long as it IS here, let me repeat -- we would NOT want convicts fighting for us. They would not have any motivation to win, they would be much more likely to frag their officers, to desert, and to commit war crimes like raping innocent civilians. After all, they committed crimes in peace time society, imagine what they would do in a war zone. NOT A GOOD IDEA. "

anonymous wrote on Jun 30, 2008 9:31 PM:

" Bring back the Two Cents to the Print Edition. "

used to love auburn wrote on Jun 30, 2008 8:02 PM:

" I agree with the mother that had to say good-bye to her young son as he went off to protect our country. I feel they should also be sending inmates especially the big tough ones to defend us. Let them do something good for us instead of going down the wrong path. Their families would not have to uproot to come here to be with their loved ones. "

movedsouth wrote on Jun 27, 2008 6:43 PM:

" When the two cents change, I would like to see the posts not carry over. "

Farmer's Gal wrote on Jun 17, 2008 12:45 PM:

" I would love to see the "More Two Cents" link under the main Two Cents link lead to an archive of former Two Cents pages. As it is, it goes exactly the same place as the main Two Cents link and is NOT "more" Two Cents -- it's exactly the SAME Two Cents.

Even if it just launched a search on "Two Cents," that would be both more logical and more helpful to the readers.

Can it be done? "

Citizen_Webitor wrote on Jun 11, 2008 8:24 AM:

" Good question.

We get our movie show times from a national supplier automatically. I will have to look and see why the drive-in isn't in there. "

Unknown... wrote on Jun 10, 2008 7:28 PM:

" Every once in awhile, I look in the section where the movie listings are. How come you don't put the Finger Lakes Drive In listings in there??? I look all the time hoping to see what is playing there, and you never have it!! "

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