06/08/05 04:30 - ID#30098

Elmwoodstrip.co Looks for Topic Writers

I posted this to craig's list but then realized that I forgot to post it here where it really matters.

We are currently looking for journal authors for the following topics. I thought by having some topic journals we could allow people to wriet that aren't comfortable with talking about themselves and at the same time get some nice insight into whats going on locally.

Topics we want covered:

Local Food
Local Music
Local Politics
Local Events
Dating in Buffalo
Local Sports
Local History
Local Architecture
Queer Life in Buffalo
Style
Pets

We are also looking for other organizations who would like to document the history and progress of their organizations on the site. We can promise you a huge local audience of thousands.

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06/08/05 04:26 - ID#30097

Thanks for the Donation

Thanks (e:jessbob) donation and to everyone else who has donated in the past, it is because of you peeps that we have been able to continue to offer this free service with any advertising for the past several years.

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06/08/05 03:11 - ID#30096

Interface Dance

The search box has been moved up above the user pic. The default now is to search the users journal you are looking at. Once the search box comes up, you can select the all check box to search from all journals instead. It is much faster this way, and also allows space to move the chat and calendar up. I decided to start using the caledar a lot. I will also improve on the calendar interface soon. See help to figure out how it is now.

You can also access both the mozilla plugin and the epoetry search from the search box that pops up when you use the search form above the userpic. The epoetry is much more accessible this way. It should also be faster.

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06/08/05 12:00 - ID#30095

Student Interns

I saw this at buffalobarfly.com

ATTENTION STUDENTS
We need more INTERNS in GRAPHIC DESIGN, MARKETING, ADVERTISING, PROMOTIONS,WEB DESIGN, BUSINESS & COMMUNICATIONS.

If you need a summer internship in one of these fields CALL (716) 886-4785 or email: info@buffalobarfly.com Quoted from: Buffalobarfly.com Buffalo's Source for nightlife & entertainment

Maybe we need some student interns too!

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06/07/05 09:01 - ID#30094

Allentown Art Festival

The allentown art festival [search]allentown art[/search] is coming up this weekend. If you haven't been there before or if you love chochski, then you will love it. Sometimes, it is pretty fun too. Anyone can feel free to update this entry.

The Allentown Art Festival takes place in the Allentown Historic Preservation District of Buffalo, New York. Tens of Thousands art patrons visit the Festival to enjoy the beauty of Buffalo's weather in June, the charm and uniqueness of the Allentown area and the quality of the art and crafts presented by the over 400 juried exhibitors.Quoted from: Allentown Art Festival

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06/05/05 05:34 - ID#30093

Pride Was A great Sucess

There were so many people at the pride festival at Bidwell park. There were quite a few more people than last year, with a much bigger area. The festival was almost twice as big as last year.

You can see more information about the festival at these sites. Unfortunately, we forgot the video camera this year.

Outcome Buffalo:

Pride Buffalo:

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06/05/05 05:29 - ID#30092

Vehicular Travel TO Return to Main St

Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello announced today that plans are underway to return vehicular traffic to Main Street by 2007.Quoted from: 2 On Your Side - News

Who would have thought. It is so sad that vehicales have to return to that street and that it couldn't be developed otherwise.

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06/05/05 02:16 - ID#30091

Pride Parade

One of the protesters just announced on his megaphone that he will kill us all and bury us in dirt graves and then we can deal with jesus. His sign says, " Jesus Said, repent or else Revelation 2:16"

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06/05/05 02:11 - ID#30090

Pride Parade

Don't forget about the pride parade parade tomorrow. It stars at one and goes from Kleinhans to bidwell park via elmwood. There is a giant party with speakers and performers at Bidwell following the parade. Here is alink to search from last years pride [search]pride[/search]. You can also view videos

from last years pride in the video section above. If anyone wants to help do intrviews tomorrow, we would be all about it. It is so hard without (e:jill) . She is in edinborough now.

just fixed the search link --SR

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: shawnr 06/05/05 11:40 >>Updated By: paul 06/05/05 12:25

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06/04/05 01:41 - ID#30089

Server Died from Overload

So (e:shawnr) asked me last night if the server could deal with lots of visitors from far away if he put a link to his journal on other sites. I thought it would be ok. Well on boing boing,

there were apparently too many visitors. I think it is because boingboing is a news syndication hub and the links were flying in from everywhere. I guess it is time to start caching because thousands of vistors per hour, is too much for the mni VPS.

Unfortunetaly, (e:shawnr) is gone now, and the only way to deal with this was to shut down elmwoodstrip.com altogether. It currenlty redirects to google's homepage. I don't know how else to deal with it because th referer links are all over the place. From a million rss feeds. I tried rewriting from the htaccess file when the users looked up shawnr only and it worked at first but soon enough, people started removing the u=shawnr from the end of the url and it got killed again. Eventually, I had to just redirect all elmwoodstrip.com info away from the site.

Someday, I would like to test the site out on a really robust server. For now just visit elwmoodstrip.org.

>>Posted By: paul >>Updated By: paul 06/04/05 13:45

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