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THIS BLOG HAS MOVED

Peoria Pundit is now operating at pundit.blogpeoria.com.
Please adjust your blogroll.

August 11, 2008 in site news
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Blogs: The future of the Blog Peoria Project

I created the The Blog Peoria Project to encourage neighborhood-based citizen journalism. And to some extent it has succeeded. But I was kinda hoping for more. I envisioned it as a network of blogs, but it’s mostly a locally-based free blogging service, with no more interaction between members than would exist between any group of [...]

April 1, 2008 in Citizen Journalism
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Site news: Updates

Some tidbits:

No, I am NOT going to change the theme.
WordPress — my blogging platform — has recently released version 2.5. I’ll be upgrading soon. Probably Tuesday. I can’t afford to fall behind, lest I find that I can’t get support anymore. After that, I’ll update The BlogPeoria Project.
Blogging HAS been light recently. I’ll try to [...]

March 30, 2008 in Citizen Journalism
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Spam issues

If you’ve posted a comment and you haven’t seen it appear, it was no doubt caught up in the spam filter.
I usually go through the spam filter twice a day or so to rescue the real comments. But I can only review the last 200 comments sent to the filter, and I’ve been getting so [...]

December 12, 2006 in Citizen Journalism
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Highly recommended: WP-DBManager

I use a ton of plug-ins. That’s one of the reasons I like WordPress. But I strongly recommend using WP-DBManager. The next to the last thing a blogger wants to hear from their hosting company is that the hard drive on server they used to host your site had suddenly crashed and isn’t recoverable. The [...]

December 7, 2006 in Overset
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You may want to be sitting down when you read this post

Well, it had to happen sooner or later: Someone…

November 19, 2006 in Citizen Journalism
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Still having site problems

Judging by the almost complete lack of comments today, I’m guessing most of you are not able to open posts, read them and comment.
My apologies. At this moment, I seem to be able to get access to my administrative panel and male posts. I’m not sure if any readers will be able to comment. We’ll [...]

October 7, 2006 in Citizen Journalism
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