3/14/2023 0 Comments Whatever happened to blogo![]() ![]() (Look out, Gulf coast of the US, for another tornado outbreak this coming Wednesday…) It IS moderated, but lightly so, relying on users to flag obnoxious or wildly off-topic commenters.Īnyway, my point is that dedicated fora *can* still host thriving communities of comment where the ingredients are right. The quality of comments is highly variable, but you can block idiots and trolls according to taste, and that seems to work pretty well out of season, there are many with a pretty casual interest in meteorology, but in season there’s excellent signal to noise, and there are srs mets there, for instance the poster who provides their own visualisations of tornado-related observational data from short term weather models. Out of hurricane season, there’s a very loose criteria of topics discussed – the war in Ukraine is getting a lot of comment at the moment – but climate issues gets a lot of bandwidth along with weather extremes. ![]() I originally came across it’s predecessor blog (“Cat 6” on the Wunderground site) whilst reading up on current major hurricanes. (Here’s the current post, for instance comments at the bottom of the page.) Where I _am_ spending a lot of time these days is the comment section of Jeff Masters / Bob Henson’s “Eye on the Storm” blog at Yale Climate Connections. I recently moved house to somewhere with very poor mobile phone cover, which meant getting logged back into Twitter has been too much of a faff to bother with again, I find I really don’t miss it. (Controversial opinion I know, but Facebook’s clearly on the long slow slide into the same place as MySpace and Friends Reunited.) I stopped using Fb maybe 5 or 6 years ago and hardly missed it. OK, well, most of the times.Īnother angle on it – social media’s time is starting to come to an end. I don’t often read the comments, but whenever I have done I’ve learned new things. ![]() We would still post articles, but anticipate that commentary and criticism will be hosted elsewhere.Īs a replacement, we are happy to explore ways to better link to relevant discussions on social media – suggestions for plugins/methods are welcome.Ĭoncur. Contrariwise, if it is shallow and unnecessarily hostile, then it is likely to be the last comment thread on this blog. If the discussion is good and substantive, it will weigh towards the continuation of the commenting facility. Feel free to comment on this decision below. We are therefore leaning towards suspending comment and open threads on the blog. This is not a problem that appears amenable to stricter moderation. This has led to a very clear reduction in the quality of comments on more specialized sites (like RealClimate), as many of you have observed. No single site can compete with the breadth of audience and engagement that is found on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. Hopefully he can help bring five more White Sox rings to the city of Chicago.Over the last decade, commenting has dramatically moved from specific web-sites to general social media platforms, radically changing how people interact with longer-form content (such as blogs, substacks, newspapers and journalism). Krause will be in charge of restructuring the way the White Sox scout and head up recruitment in the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. The White Sox recently named Krause the Director of International Scouting. He began scouting, what he does best, for the Cleveland Indians, Oakland A's, Seattle Mariners, White Sox and the New York Yankees and Mets. Krause left Chicago and found himself back in the baseball world. Once Jordan left the Bulls they quickly began to crumble- wow Ron Mercer and Corey Benjamin did not live up to the hype. He worked for the Chicago White Sox helping acquire Ozzie Guillen, Greg Walker, Kenny Williams, Ed Farmer, Greg Luzinski, and who could ever forget Tom Seaver. He knew talent.īut before Krause was picking Hall of Famers for the Bulls he was a baseball mind. He later traded Will Perdue for Dennis Rodman. He surrounded Michael Jordan with Horace Grant, B.J. Krause drafted Scottie Pippen, Wes Unseld, Earl Monroe, Jerry Sloan, and Elton Brand. The man was a visionary when it comes to talent. Many people blame Krause for Jordan's departure and the Bulls' failure to be a serious threat ever since. Jerry Krause was responsible for putting together six championship Bulls teams before dismantling the dynasty. I know all of those players are "one-hit wonders." But seriously, what happened to those guys? I think there is one person in particular that many Chicagoans wonder whatever happened to the most…that man is Jerry Krause. ![]()
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