Welcome to J Town: a friendly little place in the big bad blogosphere.
A place to hang out, promote posts, check on the weather (and brag about yours!) and waste spend a little time. Bring your music, your news stories, your life stories, (a photo of your town!), and, above all, your sense of humor ... but leave the "pie fights" at the door.
(Our Community Norms can be found below the Orange Entwined Js)
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J Town - The Legend and the Made Up Stuff
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead — your next stop: J Town! (Apologies to Rod Serling)
One year ago today, J Town did not exist (quite literally nothing to see here!). In fact, Daily Kos itself was gone for the better part of the day and appeared, spectrally, in the (now defunct) Feature Box as Welcome to the new Daily Kos* and in the more detailed Getting started at Daily Kos 4.0 about an hour and a half later. Many of us were sleeping ... many were grinding their teeth in annoyance and putting their Cranky hats on. Me? I was sleeping and dreaming of better days, a distinctly townie trait (the optimism, not necessarily the sleeping).
*I invite you to journey back in time and recommend that Front Page diary from February 12, 2011. To both become a part of history and as a reminder that there might still be a bug or two to work out.
Tomorrow: The Forming of the Groups (possibly set to music)
Update: Onetennial Week FAQ
1. What is a Onetennial?
- Like a Centennial but 99 years sooner so we can celebrate it while we are all here.
2. Why a week?
"All festivities should last a week. Happy things should be big. Bad things should be small." ~ belinda ridgewood
3. When is the actual J Town anniversary?
- February 14, 2012 |
Our Community Norms
The guidelines for J Town community norms are from this Markos edict: "New Community Behavior Guidelines (Updated)", revised and extended with:
1. If you link to another person's comment or post, it should be for illumination or entertainment, not to start a fight. If you are not sure, think: WWBD (what would commenter par excellence bubbanomics do?) or WWKS (what would kos say): "You don't need to go after the same people every day to remind them that, yes, you still don't like them."
2. We often recommend someone's comment just to say "Hi, I read your comment!". It does not necessarily mean "Everything you say is something that I can agree with 100%" ... but it might.
3. navajo can do pretty much whatever she wants.
4. Don't post anything that will make princesspat (or anyone else in the whole wide world!) sad.
J Town is you. Join in just for the heck of it.
We are looking for Readers ... people who read posts and want a place to promote them. When you find that gem, comment here and we will send the Judicious J Town Jolly Jeniuses to check it out and Republish here. Or ask to be a Contributor and you can add to the Queue also.
The posts will show up in this list: J Town Babbling Brook
In the comment threads share what you like, don't like, or what you don't want to talk about (we promise not to tell anyone).
Hey, if you publish a post, you can promote it here also! And we will let this guy rescue Republish it.
Choose one of these J Town Republishing Marks ...
Republished in the J Town Babbling Brook
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... and please let the writer know you Republished them in J Town.
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