Update on Podcast, Website Functionality

by: Juan Melli

Thu Jan 19, 2006 at 11:43:08 AM EST

We're excited to announce that Congressman Rush Holt will be our guest on the first Blue Jersey Podcast which will be out by January 30th. We want our podcasts to be an opportunity for our community to dialog with elected officials, so use the comments below to note any questions you'd like us to ask. We can't promise that we'll use all of the questions, but we will make our best effort to include as many as possible.

If you have iTunes on your computer, you can click on the button below to automatically subscribe to our podcast and listen to our short intro.

We also recently added tags to our diaries. Tags are just keywords that anyone can assign to categorize an entry. If you create a diary, useful tags that you might include are names, locations (legislative districts, counties, municipalities), and issues. For example, in the previous diary titled "Ocean Co. Freeholders: Impotent", the tags chosen were "civil rights, lesbian, gay, Ocean County, freeholders, Laurel Hester". Any community member can add/change tags, though if that functionality is abused to include irrelevant or malicious tags, members will be banned. It's best to use tags that already exist. Also, don't use obvious tags like "New Jersey" or "politics" which would probably apply to every single diary on the site. Here is a complete list of existing tags. For example, clicking on the Laurel Hester tag will display the three diaries that have been tagged with that name. In the future, tags will make it easy to search for content, so start tagging now. It's also possible to add tags to pre-existing diaries.

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did you try (0.00 / 0)

the hot tag blox again?

by: soapblox @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 at 17:04:23 PM UTC

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can't find it nt (0.00 / 0)

by: Juan Melli @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 at 17:44:07 PM UTC

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i know why!!! (0.00 / 0)

i have to add another record in the db for that too...

d'oh.

by: soapblox @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 at 17:52:03 PM UTC

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try again, i swear (0.00 / 0)

it's there now!

by: soapblox @ Thu Jan 19, 2006 at 17:55:54 PM UTC

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Question for Congressman Holt (0.00 / 0)

I would like to know you're opinion about military recruiting and also student privacy in connection with the Pentagon (JAMRS) database of 16-25 year olds. (I know you are signed on to Honda's HR 551 which would protect high school students from having their information turned over to the Pentagon under No Child Left Behind.) The Princeton coalition for peace action and the Central Jersey Coalition signed on to a letter to Rumsfeld in October asking the DOD to stop violating privacy rights with the new outsourced database.

Also, here's a letter I wrote to the Star Ledger after a rally in New Brunswick opposing recruiting at Rutgers, in particular their bringing military hardware to campus, after the Marines offered helicopters rides on the soccer field at Busch campus:

Restrict recruit tactics
Your Dec. 11 story "Rutgers students march on Marine recruiting office" reports that recruiters offer free helicopter rides to Rutgers students to show that Marines fly. The recruiter said, "When we're up in the air, it's not as if we tie you up and make you sign something." Maybe not, but it is still coercive. Colleges and universities cannot restrict recruiters without losing federal funding, even in the face of the military's open discrimination against gays, the subject of FAIR vs. Rumsfeld, a case before the Supreme Court. It is inappropriate for recruiters to bring helicopters, Hummers, weaponry, rock walls and mobile cinema centers to campus. The university is obliged to provide military recruiters with "entry to any campus ... equal to that of other employers." It is not required that the university permit military hardware. Helicopters and Hummers have no place on campus. In this climate of war, spying on student groups, compiling ethnic information on possible recruits and spending billions to find ever more reluctant recruits, we should join with the students and get our state university's policy changed.

I would be interested to know if you agree.

You can link to more background on Rutgers' administration's stance (declining to join FAIR v. Rumsfeld or publicly support the law school's position, despite university senate resolutions asking them to) and two arrests in the language lab at Rutgers, during a misadvertised visit by Army recruiters.

by: kwilkinson @ Sat Jan 21, 2006 at 19:08:05 PM UTC

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