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I'll second that. And thanks, Neil.

I'll third it.

Even though "thirding" it really means that I'm "seconding" myself, so really I'm just adding to my first post, but only if there's an official scorekeeper, which there isn't, but if there was, they'd say thirding myself was probably illegal, or at least unfair, unless I SAID IT IN A DIFFERENT VOICE, which I will.

And you did just say that you were just secondig yourself as according to the seconding rules.

So I will take the option away from you and Thir it myself. So HA!

"It's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die, and then dies...
...But if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway. Dies, dies willing, knowing he can stop it, then...
Well, isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?"
Karen Eiffel, Stranger Than Fiction

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typoes like that make me look like I just climbed out of the short bus...

"It's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die, and then dies...
...But if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway. Dies, dies willing, knowing he can stop it, then...
Well, isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?"
Karen Eiffel, Stranger Than Fiction

Click on "my account" and then "track". It will list every blog you've posted on.

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Click here to donate to the Fred Thompson campaign.

It'd take a fair bit of custom Drupal coding on the server to get a Scoop-like Your Comments page.

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After all, the Devs keep saying they'll do it. that it's just around the corner.
We're still waiting...

"It's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die, and then dies...
...But if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway. Dies, dies willing, knowing he can stop it, then...
Well, isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?"
Karen Eiffel, Stranger Than Fiction

It wouldn't surprise me of RS's new overlords are going to pump a little money into their investment.

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"It's a book about a man who doesn't know he's about to die, and then dies...
...But if the man does know he's going to die and dies anyway. Dies, dies willing, knowing he can stop it, then...
Well, isn't that the type of man you want to keep alive?"
Karen Eiffel, Stranger Than Fiction

Eagle Publishing swallowed RS a while back. Early this year or late last year?

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I don't recommend people do this unless they're willing and informed enough to be able to read the source of the broken comment and find exactly what the dangling element is, heh.

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The best I can do though is just keep commenting, and put it in my signature. Which is why I put up this collection diary to begin with: Linking to all three in my sig won't work because of the size limit of the signature field of the profiles here, but making one diary lets me link to that just fine.

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I have asked this question before and do not think I have gotten an answer... is there an index somewhere on the site that shows the categories and a list of articles contained in each? Or is it simply just going to the blogs and going backward and backward?

Second Question: when there are more than one articles on a certain topic, is it possible to have them linked or threaded somehow in the order in which they were originally posted? I know it's not a today thing, but can we put it on a wish list?

I just saved this diary to my favorites - hopefully that will do the trick. Your tips really came in handy - a couple of weeks ago, I published my first diary and used the block quotes, and bolding. I was so proud of myself!

As for your other stuff, I really don't have any special hints. My use of Red State tends to be pretty now-oriented, with me only digging back to look up specific things I or someone else said once in the past. For that I'll usually just use ask.com searches, since they work better for me than the drupal searches.

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RedState 3.0 is in production.

BTW, I use Safari and it always puts my cursor at the beginning of my tagline. FireFox and IE don't for some reason.

AH! Just another bungled Microsoft attempt to take over the world! I thought there might be a tag that would insert a 'soft space' waiting for an input.

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Some tags are not available to all users from what I have seen, and I have no hard information on which ones or who is allowed to use them other than the fact that I can embed video:

To embed this video all I do is cut and paste the "Embed" field from YouTube into my message. However, my perception is that not everyone is allowed to embed video in this way. Despite the fact that I still like ABBA, I'm a trusted user. Go figure.

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I've never had any trouble embedding videos. I don't know how other tags are managed because I only ever use a few, myself.

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YouTube/CNN didn't just give these guys the ability to embed video on a blog, they put 'em in an actual Presidential debate. Some people might have said that was the whole problem with YouTube's treatment of the Presidential debates from the git-go.

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in the YouTube debate. Maybe they were included because the real Travis & Jonathan, out of costume and out of character, look like they might just as soon play D&D as anything else.

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When I was at St. Anselm covering the 2nd Presidential debate for TMR and Hinzsight, I had the privilege of being seated right next to Steve Grove, who Newsweek has reported believes in "the wisdom of crowds." And he certainly did -- because he was trying to bring thw wisdom of crowds to the most important election in American history by making Presidential candidates answer questions from Jackie & Dunlap and other, assorted snowmen.

Steve Grove is an intelligent guy in my experience but that doesn't change the fact that he tried to turn this election into an even bigger farce than it already was -- and the people at CNN were fawning over that star power.

I think the snowman and the Jackie & Dunlap pieces represented a new low in American electoral politics and they're the primary reason why a lot of people in the world cannot believe that they have to take America seriously. Steve Grove is the guy who was behind most of the process of selecting those morons. Even the Democrats were uncomfortable with Jackie & Dunlap during the debate: even they had a sense that something had gone wrong by allowing themselves to be subjected to questions from a couple of YouTube improv. artists.

It was shortly after that -- and I'm glad it happened -- that the debates in general ditched the YouTube jokeathon format and at least tried to give the American public a serious debate. In those early runs, YouTube proved themselves to be "not ready for prime time."

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And after he read some of my criticisms he chastised me for not "understanding what we're trying to do." Steve undoubtedly believes that he was trying to make Presidential debates more accessible and egalitarian by making them into a joke. He may actually think they're a joke, I can't say with any certainty.

All that I know is that there were about 500 other reporters in the room at St. Anselm -- particularly those from other countries -- who didn't think the American Presidential Elections were a joke when they got there. Steve Grove and YouTube did their best to show them that it was all just a big, silly game. With trillions of dollars and nuclear weapons. This is what happens when smart kids like Steve go to Ivy League schools.

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I thought it was CNN's people, for whatever editorial reasons, but it did seem like they threw out all the good ones.

You know something was askew when even Alan Colmes said the words, "CNN's disastrous YouTube debate."

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I don't know whether he selected them all, but he was undoubtedly the most important person in the room at the debate I attended. His title was and is the "Head of News and Politics at YouTube."

He directs all the news and politics programming at YouTube, and his starpower at St. Anselm couldn't be denied, despite the fact that he did his best to make the Presidential debates into a running joke.

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He was just trying to take the debates in the wrong direction. I was sad to see the people at CNN having to follow him around. Most of the CNN people I met were very professional and did a terrific job, but it was clear that Steve Grove had bigtime pull there.

Unfortunately it was in the wrong direction. He made the debates seem like a joke, even to people who are accustomed to thinking politics is a bit of a joke. It was almost unprecedented jokedom, and the capper was the Ron Paul acolytes and 9/11 conspiracy theorists invading the Republican Spin Room the next night and getting arrested. What a show!

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since the crowds there seem to be mostly young, empowered new voters who have no clue where to begin analyzing the issues. Sometimes "the wisdom of crowds" can be useful, such as the stock market (though not always), but sometimes all you have is a crowd and no wisdom.

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and respond to myself, I have no doubt there were many intelligent and important questions submitted that were all thrown out. There's no way the snowman was chosen for reasons other than editorial.

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And I can sympathize with it on that level. But these questions are important and the people are important and it requires better filtering than having Presidential candidates appear alongside a snowman answering questions. I can guarantee you that Barack Obama will never have to answer questions from a snowman in the next few months.

America is better than that.

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