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More wrapping up
Posted by: Neal Yonson | February 1, 2007 | 12 Comments
So it’s the day after. I haven’t checked my e-mail, and yet I’m updating this blog. Wow.
I’m particularly happy w/ the results – every candidate for whom I voted ended up winning, which pleases me. And a big huge congrats to Darren Peets, who deserves his BoG seat more than anybody who’s held the chair in a good long while. And another to the Radical Beer Tribune, who finished ninth, a handful of votes behind the Duncan-Kearney media group. Boo-urns to that outcome.
As well, after conversations with a gazillion people, I’m convinced that there has to be a way to keep this going. It requires a new URL and site name, to be sure, and will require some new contributors, but I’ll work a bit to get things up and running the next couple months. And don’t expect twice-daily posts. Just not happening.
So I ask for your patience. This weekend is very busy and my computer is broken, so it’s gonna take a few days to swing it together. But hell, I’m still updating it, and we’re still getting readers, so why the hell not?
And I love you too, Antoine!
Gina’s Bit: I agree that we should provide an interactive interface for students wanting to engage on issues that are UBC/AMS specific. Using this (EI) experiment as a basic platform could be a starting point. The key is allowing comments and not throwing around jargon (CPAC, UILO, CCP) that’s only comprehensible to people who work in the system. I think it should be part of a larger PR-revamp of the AMS. The AMS website could be a lot more accessible. There could be a subsection which has commentators on what the AMS is doing – in a blog style.
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Hey Tim, Gina.
I talked to you last night about this, but I just wanted to reiterate: I really liked your coverage throughout the election!
I know you’d like to keep the blog going under a name that isn’t electionsinsider (because elections are fine and dandy but there’s better things to talk about), and I think you might enjoy a place at Myrfield.Com Media after a revamp of the layout. Essentially you would have your own section each on the site. We can talk details via email if you like the idea… madisonmyrfield [{at]} gmail {[dot}] com
Hey Tim, Gina.
I talked to you last night about this, but I just wanted to reiterate: I really liked your coverage throughout the election!
I know you’d like to keep the blog going under a name that isn’t electionsinsider (because elections are fine and dandy but there’s better things to talk about), and I think you might enjoy a place at Myrfield.Com Media after a revamp of the layout. Essentially you would have your own section each on the site. We can talk details via email if you like the idea… madisonmyrfield [{at]} gmail {[dot}] com
Maybe I should add some rationale…
I’m more of a design guy than a journalist or analysist… (is that a word?)
While I do have the urge to investigate and write something once in a while, there’s no way that I’d produce anywhere near what you guys had even if I was given many times the period you did it in.
Cheers,
Madison
Maybe I should add some rationale…
I’m more of a design guy than a journalist or analysist… (is that a word?)
While I do have the urge to investigate and write something once in a while, there’s no way that I’d produce anywhere near what you guys had even if I was given many times the period you did it in.
Cheers,
Madison
Haha, I sent him our skeleton pictures and he might be jealous of you Tim ;)
Haha, I sent him our skeleton pictures and he might be jealous of you Tim ;)
Better things than elections to talk about? Sacrilege, unless it’s Code & Policy.
Better things than elections to talk about? Sacrilege, unless it’s Code & Policy.
While throwing money at free beer is an excellent and noble plan… I would humbly suggest that – since you’re giving away net proceeds anyhow – you two maybe help out the radical beer blog cover costs. Since they got robbbbbbbed.
While throwing money at free beer is an excellent and noble plan… I would humbly suggest that – since you’re giving away net proceeds anyhow – you two maybe help out the radical beer blog cover costs. Since they got robbbbbbbed.
quinn we would but i think between our entry fee, facebook flyer ads and paying gerald we may have nothing left, actually. :(
quinn we would but i think between our entry fee, facebook flyer ads and paying gerald we may have nothing left, actually. :(