species. The old Yahoo Pipes Humboldt Blogwatch feed has been deprecated for a while now, but I only got around to deleting it yesterday. Take note, angry blogwatchers — you want to update your feeds to point to this URL. UPDATE: If you’re having trouble migrating, we have assembled a helpful HOWTO aimed at the […]
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Praise Cap
I have received a testimony, and now I’m-a gonna pass it on to you. Say what you will about Capdiamont’s politics or grammar, but let me tell you — the dude knows his way around wires. The Journal’s fax machine and Internet lines were down this morning, and the trouble was clearly somewhere in the […]
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Journal Twitter Feed
Journal Twitter Feed: The Journal’s Twitter feed is live, baby! Come on over, chat us up, issue unrealistic demands … whatever you like! Now — let’s see if this post turns up in the Twitter feed! Minds, prepare to be
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Media Alert
I’ll be David Cobb’s guest on KHSU’s Thursday Night Talk tonight. According to David, we’ll be talking about “big picture stuff” Humboldt County stuff — culture, politics and economy — as well as the rapidly changing newspaper and media landscape, both nationally and locally. Callers are welcome to throw whatever else they’ve got into the […]
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A Little Down Time
effects! Many apologies for this Web site’s temporary dirt nap early this morning. As of about half an hour ago, all is well again. Turns out the problem was not one of robot HUMBO’s excesses of zeal, as I had feared. Rather, a disk drive had filled up beyond the brim, which triggered a whirling, […]
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Media Alert
I’ll be Keith Henty’s guest on The Jefferson Exchange tomorrow morning a little after 8, talkin’ Humboldt County economic blues. Catch it on JPR’s Classics & News Service — 91.5 FM around Humboldt Bay, or streaming live at ijpr.org.
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HUMBO on the Timber Beat
. The NCJ Robot now tracks all new Humboldt County timber harvest plans. Here’s an example post concerning a Humboldt Redwoods THP filed with the CDF last week. Suggestions welcome, as always.
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Welcome to the New Blogthing
At long last, the Blogthing has made the jump from Wordpress to the mothership! Huzzah! Update your bookmarks! The move lets us do all kinds of things we’ve been a-achin’ to do. And with that, allow me to introduce the newest member of the staff: NCJ Robot, the cybernetic blogger (right)! The robot — who, […]
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Viola? (+ Hobart estate update)
The current edition of the Ferndale Enterprise takes note of the story from last week, ” Hobart’s Children ,” and takes issue with what is deemed misinformation regarding the painting above by Viola McBride. The tangled story of the disposition of Hobart’s estate included a brief description of the tours of Hobart’s Galleries led by […]
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Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles
22Rehabilitating Mr. Wiggles: This makes me feel very depressed, and also very
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Garden Noir
Beloved Journal garden correspondent Amy Stewart dwells on the dark and deadly side of the plant kingdom in Wicked Plants: A Book of Botanical Atrocities , forthcoming from Algonquin Press in May. Above: Please find the book’s chilling, creee-eeee-eepy trailer!
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The Next Leader of the U.S.A.
If Paul Morley of the Observer (London) had his druthers , tomorrow we’d be celebrating the inauguration of North Coast Journal food columnist Joseph Byrd as our new president. Joseph Byrd of the USA, my mascot of an American truth that is more David Lynch than Steven Spielberg, developed sounds for toys, wrote TV theme […]