" Hey, Rich! Why the TOTAL attention to the pols in the LTTE section? Don't we get enough of their rhetoric and overall BS via TV, campaign signs, bill boards, radio, bumper stickers, annoying robo-calls and door to door encroachments (EVEN ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT!)? The Post Standard at least intermingles them. "

" I would like to comment on an article posted on Yahoo yesterday titled: The 50 richest colleges:

This report is good and people really need to know this information because these institutions are educational institutions and are in business to educate young people and to serve as good examples for the younger generations. With that in mind our country is going through tough times right now, the very same system that enabled these individuals and institutions to achieve their high positions in society. They always talk of how great America is and how much they love America, when it suits them. Many years ago the president of the United States informed all Americans that we all needed to make sacrifices for the benefit of the country. Please tell me what sacrifices these very wealthy individuals and institutions made for the benefit of the country? Did they simply continue with their business as usual—with their own profiteering ways? While only the American soldiers were left to put their lives on the line and make the necessary sacrifices, alone?

There is a problem in America and it concerns this very same issue. Is capitalism moral? Should it remain the same, where some continue to gain too much while others go without? America is the richest country on earth, is it really the right thing to do? Can we continue on this course? Can we continue to rely of our military to bully the rest of the world and when they don’t agree with our profit only state of mind, just kill them and then expect then not to try and kill us too?

Our society thinks in an out dated primitive way that is confrontational, dangerous, disrespectful, greedy and selfish, to many in the rest of the world. Yet America remains a divided country from within, many don’t even want our own people to have health insurance, because of their own selfishness and greed. Where is the unity in the United States, everyone is divided by policies and profits, republicans and democrats, wealthy and poor, haves and haves not’s, to name a few.

I wrote a book recently published by AuthorHouse titled: THE ROAD TO AMERICA’S ECONOMIC MELTDOWN, all Americans need to read this book. These major institutions like these 50 richest colleges and their wealthy individuals and their institutions leaders need to read it, understand it and learn that changes are needed, not business as usual and now is the right time. Our younger generations must learn to do better and have more concern for their fellow man, rather than learning a profit only philosophy. Or we may not have another recovery after the next created crisis for a few people at the top to gain greater fortunes at the expense of the less fortunate people in American society. "

" Hey Bill,

There was a blog called "The Taxpayer Watchblog", but it is no longer online as its author doesn't work for The Citizen anymore. "

" I'm not sure Rich has even looked at this blog since April, Bill -- better to just send him e-mail directly. "

" Hey Webitor, can I please get an answer to my above questions? "

" Hey Citizen_Webitor:
Wasn't there a blog that pertained to assessments and property taxes?

If so, what happened to it and how can I find it?

If not, can I post a long blog somewhere - where? - that pertains to assessments, BAR shenanigans, etc.?

And is there a work limit on these blogs? "

" 1. I agree with Brew -- if a letter is getting a lot of mileage from readers, keep it longer.

2. Why is the search box on some pages but not on others? It's frustrating and annoying to have to back track to find a page with the search box.

My Two Cents for Rich! "

" Why do the letters to the editor and related comments have such a short shelf life? I feel that these letters can be provocative enough to comment on but mere hours after you comment no has had a chance to counter a reply. Can't you hold these letters for a couple of days before you delete them? "

" Spyware and Trojans and Virii, oh my!

The calls started coming in yesterday afternoon.
Users of Kaspersky anti-virus were getting alerts about our web page trying to install a Trojan horse virus on their computers!

Well, my geek cred was under attack. A virus on MY website? How embarrassing if it were true!

Turns out it wasn't.

A file called csshover.htc.php, which is used by our website to give hover element support to IE, was the supposed culprit. This file was installed in March of 2008 and hasn't been modified since then, so I knew something was fishy with the virus report. Moreover, it's plain text and mostly regular Javascript code, which I can read a write, so I gave it a look over: nothing out of the ordinary.

Turns out we were dealing with a false-positive match, this was confirmed by Kaspersky. "

" Saw an interesting film recently. It made me think that an organ donor card should be completed with every cell phone or texter purchase, you know, just in case. Oh, the movie was "SEVEN POUNDS" staring Will Smith. "

" Hooray! the comics are all there today!!! "

" I recently took part in earth day in turning turning off the lights from 8:30 TO 9:30. If we can turn off the lights for one hour and make that big of an impact ,why cant we do this more often?. "

" Another Sunday with a blank E section and NO link to the Best of the Region. Perhaps the e-version of the Citizen isn't as good as it seems.... "

" another sunday without comics... the "E" section pages remain blank... "

" I like the new format and the e-citizen. However, I can never get more than the first page of the Go section on Thursday and the Comics on Sunday. "

" I'm getting used to the new format; however, could you please change the text color back to black. This light gray is too hard to read. "

" I'm getting used to it and I think I like it overall. Take a look at the Letters to the Editor page though -- the formatting is off somehow such that the menu of letters from which to choose is shoved down the page below the images on the right -- so all you see is a blank white space unless you scroll (or maybe it works on a large monitor, but both of mine are small) "

" We have a new look!

Today we slightly updated our look at auburnpub.com

We also shuffled some things around in an effort to increase accessibility.

What do you think? "

" Reposting an entire syndicated column to Two Cents which is already published elsewhere in this paper seems like the kind of misconduct which The Citizen should not allow here. It's not a poster expressing his or her views, nor is it a link to some external text the poster would like to draw to our attention, nor is it an excerpt to make a point -- it's just wholesale stuffing someone else's garbage under our noses. Can something be done? Especially as we all know the person doing it is a troll whose nearly every action is just to make a nuisance of himself. "

" Tweet Tweet! Do you twitter?

Twitter is a web service for making "Microblogs". Somewhat like a normal blog except each entry can only be 140 characters, and is called a "Tweet".

The Citizen runs a twitter account at https://twitter.com/The_Citizen
Follow us! "

" Personally I would like to see that as well, but we lack the software to implement such a system.

For example, there isn't currently a way for users to flag other posts as offensive, notifying us.
There's also no way for us to block a particular user who may have become a problem.
Also, we don't have the manpower to be available at a moments notice to remove a post. With our current system, any one of us can manage the comments with a few minutes work multiple times a day.

We are toying with a few ideas though, one of them is to allow registered users to post instantly (with the threat of suspension or banning if the rules are ignored), while allowing guests to post into the review queue. We are going to try that on the new Journal site and see how it goes. Guests also need to pass a captcha because we have spam issues otherwise. "

" Why do other newspapers instantly post comments to articles or two cents posts but not the citizen? If an offensive comment is posted have it removed when you do your routine checks. There is so much of a gap between the submission and the posting of a comment that there is very little back and forth discusssion happening. I think our sensibilties can stand an offensive comment for a few hours until you remove it. The filtering software should be able to remove obcenities and protect children from seeing a curse word. "

" Google Street View has visited Auburn.

It looks like sometime last summer, and they were just passing through, but Google street view has visited Auburn.

Click to see the Genesee Beer sign

Personally, I am excited about this new development. Your city just aint cool unless it's been street-viewed! "

" Ah yes.

While there always has been a button where the current weather button is now, you are correct about there being an additional weather link in the blue menu bar. I had forgotten about that one. "

" The weather button used to be in the line of sections. I did email Mr. Boyer and asked him why there is no Police Report and will look for his reply. Thank You for pointing out the Accuweather button!! "

" The weather button is still where it always has been. If you click on the AccuWeather button on the right-hand side of the main site header, you will go to a page with a detailed weather report for Auburn.

Jeremy might be a better person to ask regarding why we don't post the police blotter online. "

" What hapened to the Weather and why is there no police report in the online Citizen?? "

" Mostly due to a lack of time to answer them. The lead-up to the new year had me extremely busy, not only with auburnpub.com, but the Skaneateles Journal website as well.

We are in the final stages of a complete website overhaul, check it out:

http://www.skaneatelesjournal.com

Since they are gone, what where you wondering about? "

" Why have the comments from Dec of 2008 been discontinued and Not answered??? "