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martibear — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:19:41 +0000

Test Blog...

I <3 Crusher

Ericson — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 21:00:09 +0000

We recently introduced a "I heart Crusher" page which lists out all the stuff someone can do to help Crusher if they are inclined to do so. Works well so far, people have contacted us requesting to become event bloggers, some requesting postcards that they can help distribute.

Von Null auf Blog

Thomas Pleil — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:38:25 +0000

Nebenan gibt's ein neues kleines Eventblog, das Wissenswertes Blog, das die Tagung WissensWerte in Bremen begleitet, die gerade begonnen hat. Die Tagung ist Treffpunkt für Wissenschaftsjournalisten, und zu ihr sind auch Studenten aus unserem Studiengang Wissenschaftsjournalismus gefahren. 18 Erstsemester schreiben nun im Blog über die Veranstaltung.

Vergangene Woche habe ich meine Kollegin Annette Leßmöllmann bei einem halbtägigen Blog-Crashkurs mit den Studenten unterstützt. Neben den grundsätzlichen Fragen der Blogeinsteiger (Was soll das? Wie geht das? Was geht nicht?) haben wir eine Menge technischer und organisatorischer Fragen diskutiert. Dabei sind wir übereingekommen, dass nicht unbedingt live aus den Veranstaltungen (Programm) gebloggt werden muss, sondern dass sich immer ein Zweierteam um Vorträge, Diskussionen und Exkursionen kümmern soll: Eine(r) schreibt verantwortlich, der/die andere ist Sparringspartner. Das Vier-Augen-Prinzip erschien uns allen sinnvoll, auch, weil es im ersten Semester eine ganz schöne Herausforderung ist, in einem Fachvortrag bzw. einer Diskussion mitzuschreiben und daraus dann einen Text zu basteln. Insofern gibt es bis zur Veröffentlichung mancher Artikel eine kleine Verzögerung und das Blog wird auch über das Ende der Tagung am Mittwoch bis Ende dieser Woche mit Artikeln gefüttert.

Für die Themenkoordination etc. habe ich der Gruppe ein Zoho-Wiki eingerichet.

Frankfurter Buchmesse bloggt wieder

Thomas Pleil — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:57:37 +0000

So ganz stimmt die Überschrift natürlich nicht, sondern es wird wieder über die Buchmesse gebloggt: Seit gestern ist das neue Buchmesse-Blog online, das die Messe begleiten soll. Wie auch im vergangenen Jahr beschreiben mehrere Autoren ihre Eindrücke von der Messe. Allerdings ist das Ganze in diesem Jahr keine Kooperation mit der Literaturwelt.

Insgesamt sind es in diesem Jahr acht Event-Blogger (darunter zwei Studentinnen und ein Absolvent unseres Studiengangs), die berichten wollen, wie sie die Messe erleben. Zusätzlich gibt es von earpaper.de auch wieder einen Podcast und einen akkustischen Messerundgang.

Die Blogger und Podcaster sollen in diesem Jahr auch auf der Messe sichtbarer sein: In der Halle 4.2 Q 411 wird es das "Web 2.0 Wohnzimmer" geben: ein Stand, an dem die Podcaster und Blogger der Buchmesse präsent sind. An diesem Stand wird live der Buchmesse-Podcast produziert, und die Blogger treffen sich hier, um ihre Texte zu schreiben und sich austauschen - und um mit Besuchern ins Gespräch zu kommen.

'Cot damn, that's a good Crusher

Ericson — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 16:02:14 +0000

It's Thursday and once again we've deployed a new set of good stuff. The past few weekly iterations in July have been themed "BTO" where we held off from introducing new major features and focused on bugs + tests + optimization. During that, we've upgraded our RoR to the latest version (edge rails, as Doug and Russell call it); the site is now 10x faster in most pages and can handle thousands of items such as contacts; we're using something called fixtures to create better Selenium tests for everything we build; and we polished off existing features such as now being able to remove comments without refreshing the page, ability to remove an email address from your account, and automatically converting images to jpeg format when you try to upload a tiff file. Overall, we aimed for performance and quality.

We added the dashboard on your Stuff page last week which keeps track of all activities related to you, pictured below. This just got enhanced to completely track all activity (such as photo uploads, comments, RSVP's) within your events and events you have been invited to. You will now also be alerted if people in your contacts list creates a new public event page (for those of you who know some event bloggers or promoters). We summarize them all neatly so you don't get barraged with a super long list.

Of course we couldn't help ourselves and still introduced some new features. We want to deal with apprehensions you might have around putting on an event, like when you are about to fire off an invite to all 75 of your friends you wonder what exactly they will get. You can now preview what your invitation will look like, just as you can preview what your page looks like to your guests. Wow!

Other news: Our featured artist is having many shows, one nearby; Russell and Doug have started a product blog "CrusherDev" that will be focused on RoR development and all the technical stuff related to that.

High Google ranking of public pages

Ericson — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 02:07:49 +0000

There's generally two sides to Crusher. There's the private events side, which is where we've focused most of the energy of our small team. Then there's the public events side, pages made public by adding to Crusher's Public Directory. Currently, this directory is mostly empty. We've been actively talking with some businesses, promoters, event bloggers, and such, about how publishing their events via Crusher could be better than what they're currently doing. We're learning. And the real idea behind the public directory is becoming pretty exciting.

One thing that we've succeeded in so far is in how published public Crusher pages rank in Google's search results. Searching for "gnome trouble" or "dilettantes record release" puts crusher high up on the first page. Sweeet. Certainly a great incentive for event bloggers to publish in Crusher.

Event Blog: 1

lorispahn1 — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:41:49 +0000

This is the second year i have gone to the drillfeild to walk thought the T shirts that bare so many horirble sotories of rape and unjustice on them. It is so hard to red some of the things that peopel have gone through and not want to cry and find these people that have hurt so many and make them stand trile for the things they have done. I do not want to put all the blame on men but in so many cases it is hard not to, i suppose men and alcohole are two things that i am very leary about these days. I head some statistic that there have only been seventeen reported rapes on the virginia tech campus in the past three years. Well if that is not the biggest load of bull i have ever heard then i am loosing my mind. I have girlfriends every month comming to me crying about sme guy that she went out with and got so drunk she woke up naked and the guy was there. It is hard, to say no its y our fault you shoudl not have gotten that drunk, but in so many cases these boys go out with the intention of getting a girl that drunk and taking advantage of them. It is such a slippery slop so i understand that it is hard to hold these men accountable for their actions but somthing has to be done.

On the T shirts not all of them had to do with rape but just plane hate, women being verbale victamized and so many do not know how to tell someone. So many women that are victamized feel that it is their fault and do not want to tell anyone that is somthign i can hardly get out of my mind on some of the shirts, saying i have not told anyone about this as though writing it down on a tee shirt will give them some sort of solis i want to find those girls and hug them and tell them its not their fault but so may girl will not even listen to that. Society has scared girls into a place that is unimaginable, we have tried to tell girls that they are strong and can do anything a man can do, so they go out and drink and think th ey can hook up just like a man, well most of us can't. Its just so sad that when women are supposed to feel impowered these days it seems behind closed doors they are feeling more victamized then ever because they are supposed to be strong so now if we complain we are looked down upon as week.