By Antonio D. French
Filed Saturday, March 10, 2007 at 5:31 PM
In an effort to make Pub Def even better, we recently announced two new internships that will allow two important and exciting things: Labels: Announcements, Fundraising
1) Expansion of coverage. If you think it sometimes seems like we're in two places at once, wait until we actually are!
2) Pass on our tools and techniques to a new generation of citizen journalists. We can't do this forever and someone's going to have to take the baton.
Last week Pub Def received its first donation ever via that little "Make a Donation" button to the left. It was for $75 (15% of an intern's monthly stipend). A few days later we received another unsolicited donation. This one was for $25. Together, that $100 is going to pay for about a week of coverage from a Pub Def intern! So thank you very much.
Without sounding too much like NPR, let us just point out that the Kansas City Star has just launched a for-pay political blog (subscriptions are $395 a year). We want to keep Pub Def free, but we also want to keep Pub Def around. So if you value our content, think about making a donation every now and then. Even if it's just $5 (that's 1% of an intern's stipend!), it helps.
Thanks for visiting Pub Def.
11 Comments:
Since everyone is finding out that you allow Downs and Purdy to check on anonymous postings your blog is dead.
3/10/2007 9:00 PM
Anon at 9 pm, I think a lot of us only say things that we have no problem with anyone knowing we said. If you are typing things as anon, but are only posting to stop the informed discourse that the rest of us are having, then you are the one that needs to go somewhere else, not the rest of us.
3/10/2007 10:11 PM
Anonymous, you're an idiot. There is no way anyone (and that includes me) can find out who is posting anonymously.
Even if the FBI subpoenaed the records of Google, Inc. (the parent company of Blogger) all they could possibly get is an IP address. Then maybe they can work some of their Mission:Impossible magic and determine a profile of the anonymous poster, but I really don't think they care anymore than I do what idiot is calling St. Louis public officials fat or stupid.
Get a life and quit spreading disinformation.
3/11/2007 12:54 AM
Blogger, again, does not track IP addresses. Even if they did, the true Linux nerds know ways around that. Get real.
3/11/2007 3:44 AM
Anonymous #1 sounds like either O'Brien or Hilgemann to me.
3/11/2007 6:07 AM
Antonio -
Let's hope you never have to go to a 'for pay' basis. Pubdef gives voice to views that often, (maybe even most often), don't ever get heard all around the metropolitan area. As a white suburban reader, I can assure you that I have learned an incredible amount from Pubdef and its commenters, (especially about SLPS and Lewis Reed), that I'm sure I never would have known otherwise. That's not to say I agree with you all the time. I've disagreed plenty, and wrote in accordingly. But I've always learned. That's why I donated this morning. Keep moving forward.
3/11/2007 10:52 AM
Not true Mr. French and of course you would say that you can't find this out. You'd do better to tell your boss to stop telling people he is checking this on your web. You know us teachers can only believe our board Vice President.
3/11/2007 1:00 PM
What is everyone worried about? You have Union protection against unfair firings. So, unless you are blogging during school hours or from a school computer, don't worry, be happy. Besides, even if Machiavelli and Richard Hatch were snooping, I doubt that they could build a coalition long anough to do anything about it.
By the way Antonio. What would it take to reopen the Schoolswatch blog so that these guys quit highjacking all of the threads?
Long live the Blog!!!
3/11/2007 8:43 PM
I was wondering the same thing (Schoolswatch).
3/11/2007 8:53 PM
What? Didn't Lewis Reed or the school vouchers people pay you enough for their ads? You need an intern to sell advertising for you.
3/12/2007 10:46 AM
Antonio, don't pay any attention to these haters. Since most of them lost their $70-80,000 jobs last week, they have a lot of time on their hands.
3/12/2007 11:07 AM
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