Hello and welcome to the brand new Biased BBC site! It’s a revolution in design and I hope you will have a look around and settle in to this new look site.
Of course these things take a lot of work and that’s why my first responsibility is to express my sincere thanks to Geoff – he from All Seeing Eye – without whose enthusiasm, good humour and sustained effort this would not have been possible. I also want to publicly thank G.O.T. (Warning; sweary blog!) for his excellent and visionary work here. We owe these two fine gentlemen thanks for bringing this work to fruition and I doff my cap to both. This is also a work in progress so please bear with us as we finesse and complete. Now, to deal with the BBC…
ed there shouldn’t be a problem. Are you the account holder? Blogger allows you to turn comments off for just such a thing.
we’re not importing, simply linking up and using the same account thats there with the archives in it.
we’re not importing, simply linking up and using the same account thats there with the archives in it.
we’re not importing, simply linking up and using the same account thats there with the archives in it.
Gosh. I have the password, as do quite a few people. I think we could switch the Haloscan comments on here, but we can’t import them to the Blogger comments system(or something). That means (I suppose) we could run parallel systems, from what I’ve seen elsewhere. Don’t really know.
Gosh. I have the password, as do quite a few people. I think we could switch the Haloscan comments on here, but we can’t import them to the Blogger comments system(or something). That means (I suppose) we could run parallel systems, from what I’ve seen elsewhere. Don’t really know.
Gosh. I have the password, as do quite a few people. I think we could switch the Haloscan comments on here, but we can’t import them to the Blogger comments system(or something). That means (I suppose) we could run parallel systems, from what I’ve seen elsewhere. Don’t really know.
No major rush, I don’t think.
PS. people should check out the quotes at the bottom of the page if they haven’t already. Awesome.
No major rush, I don’t think.
PS. people should check out the quotes at the bottom of the page if they haven’t already. Awesome.
No major rush, I don’t think.
PS. people should check out the quotes at the bottom of the page if they haven’t already. Awesome.
You don’t need to import them ed, just link up with the old account and use it and the archives are there.
Parrallel systems won’t work.
You don’t need to import them ed, just link up with the old account and use it and the archives are there.
Parrallel systems won’t work.
You don’t need to import them ed, just link up with the old account and use it and the archives are there.
Parrallel systems won’t work.
Hi Gosh- how would we link up with the Haloscan account?
Hi Gosh- how would we link up with the Haloscan account?
Hi Gosh- how would we link up with the Haloscan account?
You were linked with it before, turn off bloggers comments and connect it.
You were linked with it before, turn off bloggers comments and connect it.
You were linked with it before, turn off bloggers comments and connect it.
Been reading B-BBC from the beginning. This is gonna take some getting used to.
Been reading B-BBC from the beginning. This is gonna take some getting used to.
Been reading B-BBC from the beginning. This is gonna take some getting used to.
On Haloscan, it would tell me how many unread comments there were. Doesn’t seem to do this on Blogger. Can anyone help?
On Haloscan, it would tell me how many unread comments there were. Doesn’t seem to do this on Blogger. Can anyone help?
On Haloscan, it would tell me how many unread comments there were. Doesn’t seem to do this on Blogger. Can anyone help?
Well I’ve got to go. Ed I hope you are able to link up with the old account again, in theory there is no reason you shouldn’t. Just do what you did last time and link the old account.
As for links to the archives best you can do now is to put in a google search box, the small one google gives you for blogs, and put it into a side bar.
Not perfect, but it might satisfy your more long term readers, basically I don’t mind starting from the beginning but I’m not that long here…
I’ve sent the old biased bbc bloc quote for the general thread to dv, and he can circulate it if no one has it.
Sue has saved the content of the old side bars with the quotes. If Geoff has backed up his old template of b bbc we might be able to do something with linking the archives again.
Good night all.
Well I’ve got to go. Ed I hope you are able to link up with the old account again, in theory there is no reason you shouldn’t. Just do what you did last time and link the old account.
As for links to the archives best you can do now is to put in a google search box, the small one google gives you for blogs, and put it into a side bar.
Not perfect, but it might satisfy your more long term readers, basically I don’t mind starting from the beginning but I’m not that long here…
I’ve sent the old biased bbc bloc quote for the general thread to dv, and he can circulate it if no one has it.
Sue has saved the content of the old side bars with the quotes. If Geoff has backed up his old template of b bbc we might be able to do something with linking the archives again.
Good night all.
Well I’ve got to go. Ed I hope you are able to link up with the old account again, in theory there is no reason you shouldn’t. Just do what you did last time and link the old account.
As for links to the archives best you can do now is to put in a google search box, the small one google gives you for blogs, and put it into a side bar.
Not perfect, but it might satisfy your more long term readers, basically I don’t mind starting from the beginning but I’m not that long here…
I’ve sent the old biased bbc bloc quote for the general thread to dv, and he can circulate it if no one has it.
Sue has saved the content of the old side bars with the quotes. If Geoff has backed up his old template of b bbc we might be able to do something with linking the archives again.
Good night all.
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great site but posting is a problem using firefox
great site but posting is a problem using firefox
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on the new comment system :
1. cant post anonymously with a pseudonym – you have to type in word verfication and retype your nickname each time.
2. doesnt convert urls to links
e.g. http://www.yahoo.com – Haloscan did this.
3. Very dangerous : right now i’m logged into gmail and i can see the “choose an identity” has my gmail id as an “identity” option. This will scare off folks who want to post anonymously with inside information or tip offs.
on the new comment system :
1. cant post anonymously with a pseudonym – you have to type in word verfication and retype your nickname each time.
2. doesnt convert urls to links
e.g. http://www.yahoo.com – Haloscan did this.
3. Very dangerous : right now i’m logged into gmail and i can see the “choose an identity” has my gmail id as an “identity” option. This will scare off folks who want to post anonymously with inside information or tip offs.
on the new comment system :
1. cant post anonymously with a pseudonym – you have to type in word verfication and retype your nickname each time.
2. doesnt convert urls to links
e.g. http://www.yahoo.com – Haloscan did this.
3. Very dangerous : right now i’m logged into gmail and i can see the “choose an identity” has my gmail id as an “identity” option. This will scare off folks who want to post anonymously with inside information or tip offs.
just double-checked the guido fawkes blog and its comment system – his platform is blogger.com too.
and his comment system has all the nice features of haloscan:
1. converts urls to links
2. you can post anonymous with a nickname
3. it remembers your nickname when you go back to it
4. it DOESNT tell you to login or use an “id”… due to the nature of guido’s blog anonymity is highly valued.
maybe you guys should ask him how he got his comment system configured.
just double-checked the guido fawkes blog and its comment system – his platform is blogger.com too.
and his comment system has all the nice features of haloscan:
1. converts urls to links
2. you can post anonymous with a nickname
3. it remembers your nickname when you go back to it
4. it DOESNT tell you to login or use an “id”… due to the nature of guido’s blog anonymity is highly valued.
maybe you guys should ask him how he got his comment system configured.
just double-checked the guido fawkes blog and its comment system – his platform is blogger.com too.
and his comment system has all the nice features of haloscan:
1. converts urls to links
2. you can post anonymous with a nickname
3. it remembers your nickname when you go back to it
4. it DOESNT tell you to login or use an “id”… due to the nature of guido’s blog anonymity is highly valued.
maybe you guys should ask him how he got his comment system configured.
ed thomas
Yes, the comments at the foot of the page are very strong – ESPECIALLY those by Antony Jay. But few people will scroll down to the bottom of the page ? Therefore should they not be near the top. relegate the initial Marr claim of impartiality ?
Obviously a lot of work has been going on, for which much thanks. But the old haloscan comment method seemed better than this newfangled stuff !
ed thomas
Yes, the comments at the foot of the page are very strong – ESPECIALLY those by Antony Jay. But few people will scroll down to the bottom of the page ? Therefore should they not be near the top. relegate the initial Marr claim of impartiality ?
Obviously a lot of work has been going on, for which much thanks. But the old haloscan comment method seemed better than this newfangled stuff !
ed thomas
Yes, the comments at the foot of the page are very strong – ESPECIALLY those by Antony Jay. But few people will scroll down to the bottom of the page ? Therefore should they not be near the top. relegate the initial Marr claim of impartiality ?
Obviously a lot of work has been going on, for which much thanks. But the old haloscan comment method seemed better than this newfangled stuff !
it’s beautiful,nice design.
it’s beautiful,nice design.
it’s beautiful,nice design.
Yes, I agree that the comments currently lost at the very bottom of the page should be joined to those which are now prominently displayed at top right, since they are in the same category – BBC and ex-BBC staff highlighting the bias. And I would put those two Andrew Marr comments at the bottom of the list since others have made more compelling comments.
If it were up to me I would reinstate the old blog with the old Haloscan comments intact and then proceed a bit more cautiously with the changes. The search facility on the old blog was limited in that it only searched the blog posts. I would change that to enable a search of the comments as well at the same time.
Dunno if any of this is possible, but it sure would be good to see.
Though Haloscan sometimes went on strike, it was far more user-friendly than this blogger system, as it currently exists on the blog.
And as someone else pointed out, are we going to have to type in word verification every time we comment and use HTML every time we post a link?