TGIF Wild Card — 9.3.10

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  girlfridaycda on September 03 at 11:32 a.m.

  Could your social media efforts be helping with those numbers?

  I know for me that is how I find the articles I want to read and comment on.

  But then Social Media & Marketing are what I do for a living so I spend a lot of time sitting on my behind in front of the computer :) I could be an exception.

  Keep up the good work! Coming up with witty comments and reading your blog keeps my brain functioning-even without coffee!

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  DFO on September 03 at 11:40 a.m.

  @ Jamie Lynn Morgan re: “Could your social media efforts be helping with those numbers?”

  Absolutely ….

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  toadman on September 03 at 12:20 p.m.

  Interesting article:

  http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/03/how-christians-spoil-sex/?hpt=C2

  From the Article:
  “…Christians damage sex in four ways:
  They teach guilt, not abstinence.
  They have very few ways to discuss it.
  They write 10 books about lust for every one book about the gift of sex.
  They’ve “made the crayon box pretty small” (they’re afraid of being creative during sex).

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  DFO on September 03 at 12:51 p.m.

  Hey, Toad … any chance you guys in Spokane County can chase off the white supremacists in your midst? They might find their way across the state line: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/sep/03/white-supremacist-gun-id-theft-probe-stay-jail/

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  brentandrews on September 03 at 2:47 p.m.

  Comment counts seem to be down significantly. Hits don’t matter to visitors like me nearly so much as comments. It’s the comments that have made this site such a unique looking-glass into the community. Now that conversation seems to be happening on Facebook. This site suffers, for the loss of it. And Facebook grows and grows. I bet they’ll mention it in three or four stories this week, in my local newspaper. How easy it must be, how light-hearted it must feel, to go along to get along. How sad to be me, always pointing out the turd in the pool, never enjoying the swim.

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  DFO on September 03 at 2:57 p.m.

  @ Brent re: “Comment counts seem to be down significantly. Hits don’t matter to visitors like me nearly so much as comments.”

  So this is all about you … and the comments section? Seriously? The comments section is fine. In fact, it keeps getting healthier with the return of individuals like Toad & Wally from self-imposed exiles. In an even longer view, elected officials and opinion makers from all over the state are commenting here now. As far as I’m concerned, however, the most important aspect of what goes on here is what I post out front. And I don’t see much of a change going on there. What you fail to see is that I’ve expanded into Facebook & Twitter — and have made acquaintances in the social network that I never could just on Huckleberries Online. You simply are focusing on the trees — or make that dead-tree media — and missing the forest (the online revolution). I’m much older than you and have been in the media decades longer than you. Yet, this dinosaur gets what’s happening. And enjoys it.

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  brentandrews on September 03 at 2:59 p.m.

  “I don’t get in swimming pools,” my friend Joey “J.J.” McGregor told me one time, after I’d asked him to come swimming with me.

  “Why not?” I asked, annoyed.

  “Louie, everybody has an a__hole,” he said, and I never forgot it.

  He was right, too, and while I still swim, I keep my mouth closed when I do it.

  Once you start looking at things that way, you can’t go back to the way you were before.

  Maybe that’s why I can’t stand Facebook. It’s so many people and, you know, like my friend said …

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  brentandrews on September 03 at 3:02 p.m.

  The comments used to be important to you, too, Dave. Far from being about “me,” what’s lost is the general conversation - the coffee clutch aspect of the site. I liked that.

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  toadman on September 03 at 3:10 p.m.

  @DFO - you know borders don’t mean anything to the mentally incapacitated, like white supremacists. ;-)

  Spokaloonie stays just as white out at night, as CDA…trust me… ;-)

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  Stickman on September 04 at 1:52 p.m.

  Brent: I think the coffee clutch aspect is coming back, so that must help the casual blogger make a comment every once in awhile. The blog is always going through changes, and I actually like it a bit more of late.

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  Shannon on September 04 at 10:17 p.m.

  No weekend wild card, so I’ll post here. Take it easy if you are driving on 15th from Sherman up to the I-90 overpass. There are currently two sets of lines painted on the road about 5 feet apart from each other, one white and one yellow. I’m assuming they want you to obey the yellow set, but it’s an accident waiting to happen. I’m very surprised they didn’t get this fixed already with the increased school traffic starting on Tuesday!

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  Stickman on September 05 at 4:49 p.m.

  Shannon: If you drive 15th enough, I think it’s kind of obvious what’s going on. I have been on there numerous times in just the past day or so , and I don’t think people are confused at all.

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