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Posted: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 3:31 pm
By: RadioActive Chief
KELO, in their infinite wisdom has decided that they have different fish to fry, than to continue with their issues blog platform.
Whether this strikes you, the reader as being good, bad, or indifferent, the site is theirs to do with what they will, and such is life, and if not being able to “compete” with a “newly formatted video player” indicates where KELO’s priorities lie, then so be it. Hmmmm. KELO is a television outlet after all…so on the face of there is some logic from their point of view.
I thought about commenting on the somewhat sour note from Dr. Newquist, but decided to pass on the opportunity to inflict further heartburn on him. I trust he, and the rest of us will still be out there in the blogosphere, and you can follow us there and give us your kudos or brickbats via comments, as you see fit.
My continuing blog hangout is at RadioActive Chief. By the way…the site name has nothing to do with glowing in the dark from some nuclear process. It’s derived from being a retired Navy Chief Radioman, as well as as active radio amateur [Read More]
Tags: blogging
Posted: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 11:03 am
By: David Newquist
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Blogs, like mayflies, are ephemeral. They swarm into existence for a brief time and then die, leaving little behind but an unpleasant stench. The blogosphere in South Dakota illustrates what seems to be a life history of blogs. Many of what once were prominent blogs have passed away. Now the Keloland issues blogs follow the pattern. They will succumb on Wednesday.
This is not a surprise. What is surprising is that the demise of the KELO issues blogs has been such a long time coming. When ostensible news organizations host blogs, they face consequences that individual bloggers and those who comment on blogs do not. There is the matter of legal issues when bloggers or commenters venture into libel. Newspapers and radio and television stations can be held liable for libel if they demonstrate attempts at editing content. However, other providers of access to the Internet are immune, under the Communcations Decency Act of 1996, if they are serving as distributors, not as [Read More]
Posted: Friday, January 7, 2011 at 11:57 pm
By: Ken Blanchard
As my colleagues here have noted, Keloland has decided to fire us, with lots of appreciation and five days notice. Here is what passes for an explanation:
We have spent the past few months reviewing the traffic and format of our pages at KELOLAND.com. I am sure that you have noticed several changes over the past year, including the removal of our Forums section in favor of Facebook Comments at the end of selected stories; as well as the addition of a newly-formatted video player. These are just a few of the adjustments that have been made to ensure that KELOLAND.com continues to be South Dakota’s #1 website.
Among the changes we have discussed is the removal of the Issues Blog section under KELOLAND Blogs. We have decided to eliminate this section due to the low number of regular contributions and our desire to take the site in a different direction. This is certainly not a reflection of the quality of your work and we appreciate all you have done to provide content to our website. I anticipate that this change will take place on Wednesday, January 12.
Well, I suppose we can hardly compete with a newly-formatted video player, let [Read More]
Posted: Friday, January 7, 2011 at 9:47 pm
By: Doug Wiken
First, Thanks to KELOLAND for allowing a few alternate ideas to be presented on a corporate website. Other Bloggers preceded me here and they made many more contributions than I was able to. Mostly the information from South Dakota bloggers made at least some sense and often presented ideas and information not seen in the more mainstream media. I know that some of the posts by Blanchard and Newquist made me think for a minute or two and I hope they caught the actual attention of others reading this.
But, the news from KELOLAND’s Jaine Andrews, managing editor of Keloland News:
Among the changes we have discussed is the removal of the Issues Blog section under KELOLAND Blogs. We have decided to eliminate this section due to the low number of regular contributions and our desire to take the site in a different direction. This is certainly not a reflection of the quality of your work and we appreciate all you have done to provide content to our website. I anticipate that this change will take place on Wednesday, January 12.
I hope some of the readers here at KELOLAND will take time to visit my Dakota Today Blog and the other [Read More]
Tags: Goodbye • Thanks KELOLAND
Posted: Friday, January 7, 2011 at 9:00 pm
By: Cory Allen Heidelberger
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Posted: Friday, January 7, 2011 at 9:17 am
By: Cory Allen Heidelberger
Reimagine Rural highlights the upcoming South Dakota Bicycle Summit in Pierre January 21–22. RR’s Mike Knutson asks what bicycling means for rural communities.
I can tell you that in my community, bicycling means, “That guy’s nuts!”
I haven’t ridden my bike as much this winter as I’d like. But on one of the milder days before Christmas, I threw on a couple layers and looped around Lake Herman to town on my trusty GT mountain bike. No major snow tech required: just my usual knobby tires, my hiking boots instead of my light biking shoes, my backpack warmly hugging my shoulders and tummy, and my blaze orange hat and reflecto-ankle straps to say, “Hey! See me! Don’t run me over!”
It was a perfect winter day to ride. The south breeze was well short of lean-into magnitude. With the temp in the teens, my limbs and face didn’t freeze and the snow on the road didn’t melt. A nice coat of clean, crumpy snow (you know, [Read More]
Tags: bicycling
Posted: Friday, January 7, 2011 at 12:54 am
By: Ken Blanchard
 My father once told me that the difference between the two parties is simple: the Democrats are stupid whereas the Republicans are just plain dumb. That bit of wisdom has held up well, though not always in the same proportion at the same time.
Today the Republicans did something smart and promptly turned it into something really dumb. Reading the Constitution was the smart thing. The founding document possesses enormous authority and reverence toward it is altogether proper.
The dumb thing was to read an “amended version”. The text they read, I gather, removed all the language that has been superseded by amendments. There is a lot of language in the Constitution that isn’t in the Constitution anymore, in a legal sense. For example, the original text states that senators are chosen by the state legislatures, but that was changed by the Seventeenth Amendment to election by the people of each state. I gather that the original language of the [Read More]
Tags: amended • amendments • Constitution • corruption • dumb • House • hypocrisy • reading • Republicans • slavery • three fifths
Posted: Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 4:25 pm
By: David Newquist
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The New Yorker delves into the question of the immense popularity and success of the Millenium trilogy novels and films of Swedish writer Stieg Larsson.** (He died at 50 before the novels were published or films were made.) The New Yorker critic suggests that if you have not read the novels, you “have [Read More]
Posted: Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 8:13 am
By: Cory Allen Heidelberger
Let’s see if Kristi Noem will vote to put money in my pocket….
The new GOP majority in the U.S. House includes some members who would like to give homeschooling families a tax break. The New York Times is hosting a discussion on the topic, wherein the Home School Legal Defense Association says a $500 homeschool tax credit would encourage parents to get involved in their kids’ education. Education reform guru Chester Finn says fine, but you don’t get federal money without jumping through federal hoops, like requiring homeschool kids to take more tests. And that prospect sets off the Cato Institute’s [Read More]
Tags: education • taxes
Posted: Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at 7:59 am
By: Cory Allen Heidelberger
Representative-Elect Kristi Noem will get her first chance to grandstand on her campaign promise to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act next week. Noem’s GOP bosses will bring the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act” to a vote next Wednesday, January 12. The repeal bill is two pages long, compared to the couple-thousand-page health reform is seeks to undo… proof that any idiot can shout No! but that coming up with a real solution for a complicated problem takes some work.
Of course, the Republicans are making their symbolic repeal bill even simpler by ignoring their own rules: the Republicans are exempting health reform repeal from the requirement that the House pay for every bit of legislation it passes. Remember: if Speaker Boehner could slip 13 Democratic Senators and President Obama a mickey and get [Read More]
Tags: health care • politics
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