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Soapbox 2
By rickyjames, Section News Posted on Mon Jun 02, 2003 at 07:05:35 AM PST
Hi, everybody; welcome to "The Soapbox". Think of this posting as a permanent "letter to the editor" page, the watercooler we can all gather around from time to time and just chat. It's recommended that you click on the "+Hotlist" tag in the upper right of this article, visible to members; this will create a Hotlist right-column box you can monitor for future newly-posted comments. This the place to come to get the latest updates, news and gossip about what rickyjames (that's me) is up to now in making ongoing changes to the SciScoop site. This "Soapbox" posting is also to give you a place you can leave me or anybody else a piece of your mind on whatever subject you want. If I get enough pieces of everybody else's mind, maybe I can put them all together into a whole one. E Pluribus Unum. By the way, this was getting so big I'll start a fresh one as needed, and leave links for the previous editions below.... The Soapbox: May 2003 The Soapbox: June - Dec 2003 The Soapbox: Jan - Apr 2004 The Soapbox: Apr - Jul 2004 The Soapbox: Jul - Oct 2004

Soapbox 2 | 49 comments (49 topical, 0 hidden)

the new comment marker (5.00 / 2) (#40)
by janra on Wed Aug 27, 2003 at 01:33:57 PM PST

never goes away...

can you please make it only mark actual new comments?

If you don't know how, ask me ;-)
--
Discuss the art and craft of writing

Rocketship Underpants (5.00 / 1) (#44)
by gypsysoul on Mon Dec 15, 2003 at 03:12:13 AM PST

For a Monday, what a perfect quote!

An Article Worth mentioning (4.00 / 1) (#2)
by Anonymous on Tue Jun 03, 2003 at 05:12:24 AM PST

Hey, Guys: Keep up the good work. Your site has become a regular in my small trove of well travelled sites. I came across an article on SpaceDaily that relates our current space policy to the Matrix story-line. Here: http://www.spacedaily.com/news/oped-03zm.html Yes, I am hoping you will give NASA a few lumps while its down, but only because it could be that much better. Keith

Cool article! by Sweetwind, 06/04/2003 07:31:07 PM PST (none / 0)

Polls + Dynamic Threaded View (4.00 / 1) (#5)
by Bob on Thu Jun 05, 2003 at 06:46:37 PM PST

It seems the Dynamic threaded view is not working so well in polls. For example, go to:

http://www.scifitoday.com/poll/1054818985_lrSzNOrn

and try to view it in dynamic threaded mode. My reply to Alan's comment cannot be expanded. It produces a JavaScript error under Mozilla:

Error: ifrm has no properties
Source File: http://www.scifitoday.com/dynamic-comments.js
Line: 42

and also one under Internet Explorer:

Line: 41
Char: 3
Error: 'document.frames[...].document' is null or not an object
Code: 0

Any ideas?

I'm not too surprised... by Drog, 06/06/2003 05:43:36 PM PST (4.00 / 1)

fix for dynamic comments by Anonymous, 08/08/2003 06:24:35 AM PST (5.00 / 2)

what do you know by janra, 08/08/2003 07:54:23 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

Question for Rickyjames (4.00 / 1) (#7)
by Joshua on Wed Jun 18, 2003 at 08:18:33 AM PST

Why is it that when i post a comment that the time I posted it at comes up as 2 hours earlier than when I actually thought I posted it at. Is that because the website is on Pacific time or on some other time zone? It says, from what I can tell, that the time is on EST which I thought was Eastern Standard Time in which case the time that is showing up is actually 3 hours earlier than when I actually posted my comment.

Tick Tock... by rickyjames, 06/18/2003 08:28:02 AM PST (4.00 / 1)

Ohh by Joshua, 06/18/2003 09:43:17 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

New Sections / Icons (4.00 / 1) (#12)
by rickyjames on Fri Jun 20, 2003 at 04:09:12 AM PST

D'OH! I just wrote drog a behind the scenes letter and as soon as I clicked to send it, I realized I should be putting this out for public comment. How can I harp at others for not posting when I don't? So without further ado...

"You know what I'd really like? An armaggedon icon/section for all the WMD/asteroid impact/end-of-world stories. I want to discuss nukes and not put that cute little circuit board beside it. Maybe a collage of a mushroom cloud with the biohazard symbol and a flaming meteor coming across them both? If you can only do one, do the mushroom cloud...

Just an idle thought..."

Anybody else got any new icon / section ideas?

Enjoy reading this SciScoop story? Here's a thousand more.

Great idea by Drog, 06/20/2003 05:58:52 AM PST (4.00 / 1)

Big Bro by gypsysoul, 06/20/2003 01:59:39 PM PST (3.00 / 1)

As Bart Simpson Says... by rickyjames, 06/21/2003 02:05:17 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

how about... by Sweetwind, 06/23/2003 07:30:37 AM PST (none / 0)

I just wanted to say... (4.00 / 1) (#41)
by jkauzlar on Fri Oct 17, 2003 at 07:48:03 AM PST

This is a great web site! I'm surprised it took me so long to find it. I have a similar site called MathForge where we blog particularly math news (honestly, though, there's not a lot of news about math, so we don't post as often as you guys do) Besides the front-page news, we're slowly developing functionality for classroom and researcher collaboration. We currently have several math classes from a school in Iowa using the groups feature for supplemental classroom use.

Anyway, I just wanted to mention my site and tell you how interested I am in yours. I will stop back often. Also, I added a link to SciScoop on our links list.

More Rating Experience (3.00 / 1) (#1)
by rickyjames on Tue Jun 03, 2003 at 04:11:34 AM PST

It's Tues 5/3; I'm looking at stats for Mon 5/2 and there's some interesting points to be made. Here's the raw data:

1693 hits since 10:15 on Wormhole
0584 hits since 06:00 on Stem Cell
0448 hits since 09:00 on Mad Cow
0123 hits since 21:30 on Marvin
0068 hits since 17:30 on Dictionary

Several points. These are more stories than I usually do in a day because I had a slow day. The first two (Stem Cell and Mad Cow) I was fishing for Google News pickup and darn, didn't get it on either one. Then I ran across wormhole and did it because it was interesting. Later in the day after work I ran across and did the dictionary story because we had lots of comments on our last language story. Before I went to bed I ran across the Marvin story and of course it was so cool, I did it on the spot just by cut-and-paste on the press release and add in links.

So...the biology stories and the physics story were up about the same time but the physics story pulled three times the readers that the biology stories did. Should we slant the site towards more physics, less biology? The dictionary story was up twice as long before the statistics run compared to Marvin, yet only got half the votes - more SF/offbeat humor instead of human science?

Also weird - total microsoft counter hits for Mon 5/2 is listed as 2257. Sum of these hits just on these five stories is 2916. Weird weird weird.

Also, the log file shows we're on the radar of something called StumbleUpon, which is pretty neat. Check it out.

Enjoy reading this SciScoop story? Here's a thousand more.

Trust Yourself by Anonymous, 07/17/2003 04:01:56 AM PST (5.00 / 1)
Twenty Four Additional Hours Later... by rickyjames, 06/04/2003 03:26:46 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

What to put beneath the menu everyday... (3.00 / 1) (#10)
by Drog on Thu Jun 19, 2003 at 03:53:42 PM PST

I always thought that a science or sci-fi "quote of the day" or "on this day in history" would be pretty cool. A fair bit of work though, finding all that info, putting it into the database, and writing the script to display it... which is why I never did it. :)

Looking for political forums? Check out "The World Forum".

I agree w/Drog by gypsysoul, 06/19/2003 05:12:47 PM PST (3.00 / 1)
I'm Up for Quotes... by rickyjames, 06/20/2003 04:10:05 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

Quotes It Is... (3.00 / 1) (#17)
by rickyjames on Sat Jun 21, 2003 at 05:25:06 AM PST

OK, we're gonna do routine quotes in the header. There's a link in the user box now to a new page called SciQuotes. Enjoy.

Enjoy reading this SciScoop story? Here's a thousand more.

Looking good so far (3.00 / 1) (#21)
by Alan Von Fan on Wed Jun 25, 2003 at 06:53:41 AM PST

I've been a tad poorly recently, and not done more than scan the front page occasionally for a while (sorry Gypsysoul, I'll have to fill you in on feline anal-sacs some other time); I'm glad to see that SciScoop is maturing well. I like the new logo, and the motto beneath it, as well as the quotes. Looks like there are some nice new members as well, and lotsa stories to catch up fully on. Fun!

Don't take too long :-) by gypsysoul, 06/25/2003 07:48:24 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

Since you ask by Alan Von Fan, 06/26/2003 01:27:49 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

Definitely by gypsysoul, 06/26/2003 02:10:05 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

hope you are feeling better AVF by Sweetwind, 06/26/2003 04:10:50 AM PST (none / 0)

Thanks SW by Alan Von Fan, 06/26/2003 11:46:41 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

Pardon my disregard for your "poor"ness! by gypsysoul, 06/27/2003 04:03:17 PM PST (4.00 / 1)

's OK by Alan Von Fan, 06/28/2003 02:49:11 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

Not to worry by gypsysoul, 06/28/2003 04:08:56 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

Digests are working fine (none / 0) (#19)
by Sweetwind on Mon Jun 23, 2003 at 07:31:53 AM PST

My daily digests stopped coming last week but I chalked it up to the Big Transition. And guess what, they have resumed! Good Transition, rickyjames!

Thanks! by rickyjames, 06/23/2003 10:12:43 AM PST (3.00 / 1)

Another dang detail... by Sweetwind, 06/25/2003 12:16:27 PM PST (none / 0)

You keep pointin out the details... by rickyjames, 06/25/2003 04:39:00 PM PST (4.00 / 1)

Ugly toad (none / 0) (#32)
by gypsysoul on Mon Jul 07, 2003 at 03:24:46 AM PST

7/7/03 Quote - beautiful! I have difficulty with the ugly toad of adversity -- but what gifts lie all around him. Thanks for this one.

Bad News re: Digests (none / 0) (#33)
by Sweetwind on Mon Jul 07, 2003 at 01:28:21 PM PST

My Daily Digests have stopped arriving again :-( It has been a week or so and I am now in complete withdrawal! (Administer chocolate immediately!)

The cron,,, by rickyjames, 07/07/2003 03:02:32 PM PST (none / 0)

server problem by Drog, 07/08/2003 05:12:55 AM PST (none / 0)

it's cronning again! yippee! by Sweetwind, 07/08/2003 05:32:48 PM PST (none / 0)

The "NEW" tag ... fixed?! (none / 0) (#42)
by Sweetwind on Fri Oct 24, 2003 at 07:16:34 AM PST

Do my hazel eyes deceive me, or is the "New" comment tag now showing up only in the proper places?! hooray!! :-)

Quote - November 18 (none / 0) (#43)
by gypsysoul on Tue Nov 18, 2003 at 02:55:04 PM PST

Hey, getting to the real source of this one was worth wading through all the links :-)

Kinda makes one wish it were true....

Drog: Picture Headline for the interview (none / 0) (#45)
by Sweetwind on Mon Dec 15, 2003 at 08:19:15 AM PST

Hey Drog, I was unable to respond to your nice email today (my server claims your server isn't there) but I think a picture up in the upper left of the front page is a terrific idea! Go for it! And thanks! :-)

My Two Cents Worth by rickyjames, 12/15/2003 10:00:51 AM PST (none / 0)
Oops by Drog, 12/17/2003 03:59:44 AM PST (none / 0)

THIS EDITION OF THE SOAPBOX IS HEREBY CLOSED (none / 0) (#47)
by rickyjames on Tue Dec 16, 2003 at 05:04:58 AM PST

Hi everybody, this posting of out "letter to the editor" page known as the soapbox has gotten so big I've decided to close the page and start another one. Don't worry, The Soapbox is still here - here's what you need to do (read and understand thouroughly before doing it, tho!!!)

1. Click on the -Hotlist link just above the megaphone picture; this will take this June - December page off of your Hotlist. If it currently says +Hotlink, skip this step.

2. Go to the SciScoop main page and click on the SOAPBOX link at the top of the page.

3. Click on the +Hotlink link just above the megaphone picture of the new Soapbox page; this will put it on your hotlist so you will get an "indicator" on your main page when somebody posts a new "letter to the editor".

Three easy steps; see you on the new Soapbox page! Drog, I've left a message for you there...

Enjoy reading this SciScoop story? Here's a thousand more.

Direct TV (none / 0) (#49)
by Anonymous on Sat Jun 12, 2004 at 09:40:41 AM PST

Excellent discussion! Direct TV
Tivo
Satellite TV

Soapbox 2 | 49 comments (49 topical, 0 hidden)

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