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A Monty Python letter to all Conservatives: "I fart in your general direction"
I love this silly bit of correspondence between ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ producers concerning a British censor. It’s written like it could have been a missive between two Progressive Bloggers about a Blogging Tory or perhaps a Conservative MP. Hilarious. In other words, keep your fucking hands off
Continue readingNew Blog affiliates
Please welcome as new affiliates to Progressive Bloggers: 1) Random Ranting, Raving and Ratings 2) The Political Roadmap You’ll see their posts pop up sooner or later, I’m sure.
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To all of our members who are Progressive Blogger current affiliates; I’d ask you (if it isn’t already set to this in your blog’s configuration) to change your feed status so that when it sends us a feed, it is sent as a summary, not the full post. In WordPress
Continue readingProgressive Bloggers Meetup
I’d like to thank all of those bloggers and guests who were able to attend on Saturday, October 15th. Unfortunately, the “Occupy Toronto” march fouled some of those trying to take public transit to our spot and couldn’t get there. Rather unfortunate. However, those who did make it seemed to
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: A break from blogging – now a meeting with bloggers
I’ve been on vacation for a week – hence the inactivity here, if you’re wondering why nothing new in a week. I’m still on vacation, but I’ll be meeting up with some of our Progressive Blogger membership (and some invited g…
Continue readingProgressive Blogger meeting reminder!
Just a reminder that the Progressive Blogger meeting/get-together is on Saturday, October 15th afternoon in Toronto – less then 2 weeks, but my hostess would really like to know if at all possible by the 8th if you’re attending. If you’re on the Facebook group at Progressive Bloggers, make sure
Continue readingNew blog affiliates
We haven’t done announcements of new blog affiliates since we started at the new site in June, and it’s about time we did. The honours for the restarting of this goes to The Ontario Leftist. Please welcome him to Progressive Bloggers.
Continue readingWeekly Traffic; 9/12 – 9/18/11
Starting this week, We’ll be posting a weekly summary of our traffic at the site – basic stuff, but hopefully of interest. (The graph shows up if you click the title link).
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Tip of the Hat to Two Bloggers
Since joining the Progressive Bloggers’ website, the daily listings of progressive posts have enhanced the depth and breadth of my understanding of social and political issues. Through their commentary and links, I have learned of things that would ha…
Continue readingIt Is That Time Once Again Where I Look For New Contributors To Sister Sage’s Musings
Boys ‘n’ girls, as you know, I am always looking for new contributors to Sister Sage’s Musings and there is a link at this site for this purpose for those interested. However, I am putting out a casting call so to speak for new contributors in this post. If you’re progressive (center-left/left) of . . . → Read More: It Is That Time Once Again Where I Look For New Contributors To Sister Sage’s Musings
Continue readingProg Blog meeting set.
We now have a firm date: Oct 15 in Toronto from 2-5 pm. If you’re a Progressive Blogger affiliate who is on Facebook, but is not a member of the Progressive Blogger group, send a request to join the group and I’ll add you in and then send you the
Continue readingProg Blog meetup proposal.
We have had an offer to help host a Progressive Blogger event in Toronto. If you’re interested in attending, I’m interested in hearing which date is the best for the most people. Details here in the msg forum or at the Prog Blog FB group.
Continue readingFeed update
August 3, 2011, 1:16 pm: We have applied a temporary fix to the feed plugin as suggested by the plugin’s creator., so we’ll let the site run as is for the next couple of hours and see if it picks up all the feeds without skipping over some for hours
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Hi folks: Certain affiliates feeds are not being fed in automatically by our feed reader right now. That is a plugin issue on our end, not your feed causing the error, or us banning you ;). We’re aware of the issue and think we know what needs to be done
Continue readingWell, Well, I do Believe Somebody Touched a Nerve, Mr. Penninga
Wassamatter, Mr. Penninga? Somebody’s having a bad day, I see. Doncha just hate it when people when folks ask questions and think outside the box?
Before you have a hissy fit, I live in Quebec, and thus, not eligible to vote in Ontario and I am fortunate to live in a province, where . . . → Read More: Well, Well, I do Believe Somebody Touched a Nerve, Mr. Penninga
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Progressive Bloggers back up
If you hadn’t seen it yet, Progressive Bloggers is back up and in a new format with some new features. We’ve managed to figure out what was causing the crashes before, and the corrections seemed to have stopped that, though the site can sti…
Continue readingImpolitical: Prog Blogs down
I see some bloggers are a little out of sorts due to Progressive Bloggers being down. They’re hitting their blog rolls in lieu of the site. Hey, people? Do you not use Google Reader? I have the blog roll in the sidebar but I also have a ton of Canadian…
Continue readingScott's DiaTribes: Progressive Bloggers – Version 2.
Part of the reason I’ve not been blogging as much is that I along with my volunteer coder Chris have been working hard on getting a new version new look version of Progressive Bloggers up and going. The site has been crying out for a re-design for several years. It was very hard to modify or to code stuff, and quite frankly, it was a major drain on the server it was sitting on.
We had thought Prog Blog 2 was finally launced yesterday AM .. but realized there was some unexpected glitches in reading pages (it’s based on a WordPress system), that had people scratching their heads. […]
Continue readingBlunt Objects: ProgBlogs Was Updated – What About Liblogs?
If you don’t know yet, ProgBlogs was updated. I personally prefer the former layout, but this does the job as well. However, Steve V has a few choice words for the voting system that I tend to agree with.
On that subject, personally I never cared much…
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