This is the Mothership for the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings on the nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.
The current liveblog diary is here. Please go there for commenting.
Please rec this mothership diary, not the liveblog diaries. Thanks.
Housekeeping Issues
PLEASE NO PICTURES OR VIDEO IN THE LIVEBLOG.
Thanks!
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The Birds and the Bees of the Di-ar-ies
Elena Kagan liveblog diaries roll over at 350 comments.
The current diarist is responsible for finding their replacement. Putting a request for volunteers in your tip jar is one way to do this. It keeps the replacement discussion easier to find, and away from the liveblog chatter.
Diarists should be careful to confirm their selected volunteer. Volunteers should be careful to await confirmation before publishing. This prevents colliding new Liveblog diaries.
Liveblog diaries have two main requirements:
- A link to the current Mothership, prominent in the Intro, with a request that the Mothership be recced, not the Liveblog.
- A request that people do not post videos or graphics.
Steps in publishing a new diary:
- The new diarist should publish their new diary when the old one gets to about 350 comments.
- They should then post a comment in the old diary, with a link to new.
- They should also post a comment with the new link in the Mothership. This helps the Mothership tenders keep up to date.
All liveblog diarists have been told about the birds and the bees. Liveblog diarists should give a short talk about the birds and the bees to their descendant, if they suspect that their descendant is not experienced.
The prime thing to stress in this talk, is that the descendant will be expected to generate their own descendant. Thus continues life.