November 10, 2008

Don Bacon: New occasional poster here

Alert JWN readers-- is there any other kind?-- will have noted that yesterday long-term commenter Don Bacon got to publish his own (excellent) authored post here. It was on the...
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October 27, 2008

News open thread

Thanks so much for all the good wishes received re the new grandbaby. However it didn't feel right to have news of violence, war, and conflict in the same post...
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September 15, 2008

JWN redesign update #2

I have JWN's design just about where I want it now. What reactions does anyone have to the new features I've introduced? In the coming weeks I might introduce a...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:34 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

September 10, 2008

JWN redesign update #1

Big thanks to everyone who sent comments in response to the post I put up recently on my desire to upgrade several aspects of the blog. If you're reading this...
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September 07, 2008

New vistas-- personal, and blog-related

I haven't blogged for, what, three days now. Which is fine. Sometimes the posts come thick and fast, sometimes there's a gap. I don't feel I need to blog with...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:03 PM | Fulltext link (12 comments)

February 27, 2008

Oops, sorry about the service disruptions here

I've been doing some work on designing a website for my upcoming book, and considering different options for hosting it. One that I was briefly playing with this afternoon was...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:31 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

December 27, 2007

Christmas, Solstice, and New Year's holiday wishes

We Quakers do not observe any liturgical calendar. (Nor do we have a liturgy.) But here in the US we are part of a culture that is very Christmas-oriented, and...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:51 AM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

December 18, 2007

Note for readers using Internet Explorer

Two or three of you have recently written that you can't get the whole JWN front page when using the upgraded IE browser, which I guess is IE-7. I don't...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:14 PM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

November 23, 2007

Calling JWN's readers from around the world!

Just over a week ago, my son put Google Analytics onto JWN, so i now have a week's worth of their great data on who YOU, the readers, are. I...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:32 PM | Fulltext link (9 comments)

December 12, 2006

JWN sidebar: what do you think?

In my relentless desire to improve the sidebar here at JWN I spent a bunch of time today doing just that. I rearranged some things, instaled a proper search button,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:11 PM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

June 11, 2006

Traveling; connections hard

I'm in NYC for a couple of days. High-speed connections are hard to come by. Plus I'm extremely busy: family stuff; setting up my Uganda trip for July; checking page-proofs...
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June 02, 2006

New additions to Golden Oldies

I just put all those links to the 2003 Golden Oldies that used to clog up the sidebar here, over onto a separate web-page. Then I went through the January...
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May 31, 2006

JWN Comments blog back up & accepting comments

Blogger is back up and working again over at the JWN Comments blog....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:52 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

May 26, 2006

New parallel blog for JWN commenters

The Comments posting software here has not been working for the past 2.5 days. I apologise to all who've tried to submit comments since then. So here's what I've done....
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May 25, 2006

A co-poster here for the summer

I'm going to be traveling quite a bit this summer. I'm going with Bill the spouse to some pretty nice places in Europe, then I'm going to Uganda for a...
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May 17, 2006

Back on the (blog) beat!

This morning I finished my current round of editing/reviewing tasks on the Atrocities book manuscript. Phew!! That was hard work-- especially since the copyedited version came in both later than...
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May 15, 2006

Recent hosting service malfunction

The webhosting service's databases were down (out?) for 16 hours there. People could not post comments in that time. Nor could I put up any new posts. Actually, I didn't...
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April 17, 2006

Travel, minor frustrations, etc

This morning I'm in Charles de Gaulle airport en route to Amman for the UN University event there. I should start working on the lecture I'm to give, eh? Actually,...
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April 08, 2006

Commentary editor contributes to JWN?

I'd like to express my big thanks to Neal Kozodoy, a distinguished colleague in the journalism profession-- indeed, he's the longtime editor of Commentary magazine, a key mouthpiece for the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:19 AM | Fulltext link (72 comments)

March 23, 2006

Two good blog discussions...

I wish I had more time to spend on moderating the discussions on this blog, which frequently become shrill and excessively combative. On the other hand, most readers are adults...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:38 AM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

December 29, 2005

Comment-posting problem solved

I think that the tech advisor and I (principally him) have now solved the problems JWN commenters have been experiencing over the past week. I'm not sure if your comments...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:21 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

December 24, 2005

Some server problems here

We've been having some minor server problems here the past couple of days. If you try to post a comment you may get a "500 internal server error" message back....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:23 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

October 09, 2005

JWN site design things

This past week has been a time for tweaking the HTML on many aspects of both this blog and the new group blog, Transitional Justice Forum. You'll see I've changed...
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October 04, 2005

Still tweaking comments control here...

More apologies this evening on the comments. This new software has an automatic comment-controller that-- unknown to me-- was eating up most of your comments and describing them as (sad...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:29 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

September 27, 2005

New X-linking with 'Today in Iraq'

Over the weekend, Yankeedoodle and his friends who write Today in Iraq sent me an invitation to cross-post my Iraq-related posts from here onto their fine blog. I said "Yes"....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:04 AM | Fulltext link (6 comments)

April 27, 2005

Discussing 'Gallipoli?'

The post I put up here Monday about Gallipoli has already started to generate one of the most interesting cross-cultural discussions I've ever seen in the blogosphere... It's definitely worth...
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April 16, 2005

Some JWN upgrades (well, changes, anyway)

I did a bit more tweaking on the main JWN sidebar this morning. Including, I thought I should put in links to some of the documents I've archived on JWN...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:28 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

April 10, 2005

Apologies for stalkers here

I apologize to readers that I have at least two known stalkers operating on the Comments boards of the blog. These two individuals call themselves Razavipour and E. Bilpe (sometimes...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:40 PM | Fulltext link (23 comments)

April 02, 2005

Out of contact, 2 days

I'm in Maryland. My laptop doesn't work. I'm just borrowing a friend's computer to check email and write this. It felt very frustrating, then I remembered most folks in the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:25 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

March 31, 2005

A note for commenters

One of the best things about this blog is the discussion on the Comments boards. Amazing to think of this globe-circling, multicultural discussion forum under continual development here. However, my...
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March 07, 2005

Language and JWN

It was my youngest, Lorna Quandt, calling home from college a couple of weeks ago. "Hey, Mom, did you know that the dates on your blog are coming up in,...
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February 24, 2005

Comments working again

I apologize that the blog has not been accepting comments since late Sunday night. But now, it is again! For the first 36 hours or so, the problem was that...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 01:25 PM | Fulltext link (8 comments)

February 22, 2005

JWN hosting service was down. Sorry

I only realized this morning (central Virginia time) that the server that hosts the blog was down, and apparently had been since mid-day or so yesterday. Apologies for the interruption...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 03:13 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 13, 2005

Dec 2003 Golden Oldies up

I just posted the December 2003 JWN Golden Oldies onto the sidebar on the front page. Check them out. It was a pretty good month for JWN. Lots there about...
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February 07, 2005

Two years and counting...

Well, no-one sent me any cards but yesterday was actually JWN's second blogiversary. Silly me, I meant to post about it yesterday. It's not hard to remember. Two of my...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:07 PM | Fulltext link (12 comments)

June 12, 2004

More Golden Oldies posted

Last night, in case you missed this momentous development, I put up three more months' worth of JWN Golden Oldies into the G.O. pane on the front page here. These...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:22 PM | Fulltext link (4 comments)

February 27, 2004

More JWN Golden Oldies

I just chose and posted the June 2003 Golden Oldies. I even managed to get them into the 'Main Index Template' without crashing the whole software system. Am I making...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:41 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

February 08, 2004

JWN blogiversary, etc

So my first blogiversary here at JWN passed Feb 6 and I didn't even blog that day. Oh well. My first post, here, was about Colin Powell's speech to the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:56 AM | Fulltext link (3 comments)

January 16, 2004

JWN: browser problem solved

Around 24 hours ago, both Internet Explorer and AOL started rendering the code for JWN in a very lame, primitive way. I'm terrifically sorry if you were one of the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:05 AM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

January 14, 2004

May 2003 picks on Golden Oldies

I just spent a bit of time going through JWN's May archives, and for your reading pleasure I've now added that month's Golden Oldies to the list on the main...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:46 PM | Fulltext link (5 comments)

January 11, 2004

Kudos to Yankeedoodle and Juan Cole!

I'm coming up to my First Blogiversary February 6, so I can tell y'all that now, nearly one year into the project, I know that trying to keep a good,...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 04:37 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

January 04, 2004

April 2003 posts added to "Golden Oldies"

Over the holidays, I added some of my faves from my April 2003 JWN posts to the Golden Oldies listed on the "Main" page of the blog. April was quite...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:02 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

November 28, 2003

Apologies-- server down

Our server was down for several hours today. *sigh*. Sorry 'bout that. Don't know what it was all about. But it's GMT 0130h on Saturday now and it's back up....
Posted by Helena Cobban at 08:38 PM | Fulltext link (2 comments)

November 15, 2003

JWN "Golden oldies" section added

This week, I added a new section of "Golden oldies" to the sidebar at the right of the "Main" (a.k.a. "Main Index") page. Check it out! It so far features...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 11:43 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

October 08, 2003

Bad week for a break, I know

What a week, already! The big suicide bomb in Haifa; Sharon launches a provoocative attack against Syria-- and then, to cap that, the Prez of the World says he was...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:50 PM | Fulltext link (7 comments)

August 29, 2003

Short hiatus here on blogging

In about six weeks, my elder daughter is getting married in New York City. I'm currently doing some things to help her and her fiance with planning the wedding. It's...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 06:09 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

June 06, 2003

JWN transformed

Welcome to the new edition of JWN! It has many great new features, as I'll explain below. First news first, though. Yesterday, Lorna Quandt graduated from Charlottesville High School. So...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 02:44 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

April 14, 2003

EDITORIAL NOTE: I've been filing

EDITORIAL NOTE: I've been filing recently from Arusha, Tanzania. There follow some fairly lengthy posts. To read about my "cultural tourism" experience in a Masai village, just scroll down to...
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April 04, 2003

COMMENTS FEATURE ON 'JWN' SOON?

COMMENTS FEATURE ON 'JWN' SOON? Well, I can't tell you how soon, since I'm just about to go of on this complicated trip. (See previous post, below.) But my technical...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:25 PM | Fulltext link (1 comments)

February 16, 2003

New York Demonstration

I was one of the lucky ones yesterday, at the anti-war demonstration in NYC. That is, New York's finest (the cops) actually graciously allowed my daughter, her fiance, and me...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 09:10 PM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 14, 2003

FROM NEW YORK, Valentine's Day

I've had a busy couple of days of work here, talking to some really interesting folks about my 'Violence and its Legacies' project, and starting to make plans for the...
Posted by Helena Cobban at 10:16 AM | Fulltext link (0 comments)

February 11, 2003

Off to NYC

So much to write, so little time... This afternoon, I'm driving from my home in Charlottesville, Virginia, up to NYC. Going to do some interviews for my continuing research project...
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