The meetings are held upstairs at Jackson's.
The HTCC was started by Steve Athanas, the Arts & Entertainment Editor for the Toledo City Paper, and by local author Warren Woodberry.
posted by jr at 06:06 A.M. EST on Tue Sep 28, 2004 #
Just curious - for most websites, you can go to register.com and find out at least a pseudonym or something for the site registrant - but not this one. How come? Further, how did you do that? Because when the "toledotalks.com" was up and running, the Blade had no trouble going to register.com and finding out the name of the above-board board sponsor. So it just seems odd or mysterious, especially since you "borrowed" that webmaster's name and knocked off the "s". Again just curious why the secrecy?
posted by Guest at 03:43 P.M. EST on Sun Oct 03, 2004 #
Toledo needs to wake up and support its own before they move off to other areas to get recognition. The HTCC is a great start. The shows are varied, entertaining, and FREE. Jackson's is a great place for food and ambiance. We must stop waiting for New York, Boston, Chicago, LA, or even Detroit to tell us what is "good" or "entertaining." It is time for a Toledo Renaissance.
P.S.- Hey, Guest- get a name, and post complaints on a thread that has something to do with what you are complaining about.
posted by asdodge at 09:38 P.M. EST on Mon Oct 04, 2004 #
Good post asdodge. Were you the poet that spoke last week? If so, you have great stuff, and can your book be purchased locally?
As to the "Guest" question, I'm not familiar with register.com. For the last seven years, the only place I've purchased domain names has been networksolutions.com. A "whois" there shows that private registration is enabled for this website. Whatever that means. The site regristrant is "parula software," which is the name of the app used to run this site. Parula, as in Northern Parula the cool looking warbler.
This domain name was first reserved in Sep 2001. I don't know anything about the other site you mentioned, toledotalks. So I didn't borrow anything from that site.
This site name and look and functionality is burrowed from MetaFilter.com and MetaTalk.MetaFilter.com. Get it? MetaTalk, ToledoTalk. I thought ToledoTalk was better than ToledoFilter. MetaFilter is one of my all-time favorite websites. I created my own community blog, parula, from scratch with some of the same features as MetaFilter.
My question. What does the Toledo Blade have to do with that other website?
And as to my so-called "secrecy," there isn't any secrecy. I'm not a business owner. I'm not a journalist. I'm not a politician. I'm an ex-computer programmer that got bored with that type of work and has gone back to college. I'm a nothing. So relax. It sounds like you're looking for something that doesn't exist.
Some people call me jr, so that's the name I use here. The rest of me is boring, so I keep it private, because that's just the way I am.
posted by jr at 12:42 P.M. EST on Tue Oct 05, 2004 #
It was just curiousity. You guys need to relax maybe.
The Toledo Blade reference is because the Blade made a VERY big deal when "toledotalks" first appeared. They immediately sought the name of the site owner, and when they did a short article on the site, they named the site owner in print in the paper. I felt at the time that it was deliberate since that site owner was unabashedly conservative. I looked up this site name at "register.com" because I was curious as to whether it was sponsored by the Blade or a Blade editor. I had thought by the way the Blade handled their reporting on "toledotalks", that all sites had to be publicly registered and that the name or organization had to be public. I actually WAS curious as to how that could be circumvented because I know others (not myself) who would like to set up a website, but not if their names and addresses have to be made public.
It was alllll curiosity. Your site does sound like a newspaper sometimes, so I figured if it was the Blade, maybe, that they should admit it. (Get it?) I have a pet peeve with the Blade that they require i.d. and locations from editorial page contributors but hide their own identities (get it?)
And what would be the difference between a fake name and the name "guest"? What's the diff? Answer: none.
posted by Guest at 07:54 P.M. EST on Thu Oct 07, 2004 #
One year ago yesterday, The Blade published an article about Toledo area blogs. This site was mentioned along with some others. We were interviewed by the Blade reporter. The link to the article has been in the sidebar on the front page of this site ever since. There's no shroud of secrecy. It would be kind of cool if there was. Some kind of cloak and dagger, shadowy operative with multiple aliases lurking in bunker. Art Bell-like. But nope. Just a shmo here. And like I've said many times before, this is not my personal site. Anyone can post here.
Check out ToledoBloggers.com. That site has a new design. The old setup listed a bunch of Toledo area blogs.
micah, the initial builder of ToledoBloggers, has a list of Toledo blog sites on his site.
posted by jr at 03:40 P.M. EST on Thu Oct 14, 2004 #
JR-
Yes, I was the poet at Jackson's that night. My book is available online at www.trafford.com/robots/03-0406.html
I also sell them cheaper out of my car.
My book was in Thackeray's for several months, but they recently pulled it to make space for newer releases.
It is also available through Amazon.com
"A Place to Call Home" by A. S. Dodge
posted by asdodge at 03:56 P.M. EST on Thu Oct 14, 2004 #
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