tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post807963365962130139..comments2024-03-11T00:52:06.529+10:30Comments on MYSTERIES in PARADISE: One of those trailsKerriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-24851664269688527872008-08-13T07:11:00.000+09:302008-08-13T07:11:00.000+09:30Not a newspaper reporter Janice, just a teacher..I...Not a newspaper reporter Janice, just a teacher..<BR/>I've missed your comments in the last fortnight while you've been on holidays Maxine. I bet you are having "fun" catching up.<BR/>I find the people "whose judgements you can trust" interesting. In my face to face group, there is one person whose interests are the exact opposite of mine. If she likes a book, I feel almost pre-disposed to hate it.Kerriehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-23468453109428875592008-08-13T00:35:00.000+09:302008-08-13T00:35:00.000+09:30I've been following Bill Peschel's blog since I fi...I've been following Bill Peschel's blog since I first started blogging. He is informative and funny - but for about a year now he seems to have stopped writing his blog in this style, and is instead focusing on his almanac and reviews, with the odd round-up of links. <BR/>Any attempt to assign a score to something fundamentally subjective is in itself subjective, whether it be a scientific paper (the infamous Impact Factor) or a book review. I am sure your scores are just as informative as anyone else's. To my mind, one gets to know the scorer's mind, ie if I know that you and I tend to rate the same books highly, then I'm more likely to "trust" your scoring system when I come across a review by you of a book I haven't read. Knowing the reviewer is as important as what score that reviewer gives to a book, I think.<BR/><BR/>Yes, I think you are hightly organised, Kerrie, as I've mentioned before ;-). Most Australians that I know via blogs seem to be very well organised, but I think you are the pinncale!<BR/><BR/>I always find this captcha spam system very annoying, I have to use it for comments even on my own blog, but at least Typepad has readable symbols unlike Blogger's which are often in such strange fonts as to be illegible. And as you say, the forums are useless. Wordpress drives me mad too as I find their "quickpost" bookmarklet often times out, and I can't re-log in using your password from email, I have to do it via the wordpress website. I often forget this so go round frustrating loops of resetting passwords via their email help, which does not work unless I remember not to reset by clicking on the email link but copy and paste that into the browser. <BR/><BR/>I assume that somone, sometime, will sort out this verification system. It should not be that complicated for a system to recognise a logged in person so they can skip the captcha step. One day...<BR/><BR/>In the meantime, I use Open ID as a way to at least keep a common identity in all the blogs on which I comment, otherwise each blogging system (Typepad, Wordpress, Blogger etc) recognises me by the blogs I have on those platforms, which I don't want to do, as I want to be associated to my main blog (Typepad) when I comment....oh all this online stuff does get complex when personal ID/verification comes into it.<BR/>And tracking comments, there's another story....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-28565580972644282162008-08-07T00:35:00.000+09:302008-08-07T00:35:00.000+09:30Hi, Kerrie,So sorry you had trouble leaving a comm...Hi, Kerrie,<BR/>So sorry you had trouble leaving a comment. I'll try to troll through the WordPress support forums to see if there's an explanation.<BR/><BR/>You aren't just organized -- you're very fast and clear. Are you a former newspaper reporter?<BR/><BR/>A quick comment unrelated to mysteries but related to books and Australia: The Australian's series on Ishmael Beah, which ran in early 2008, was mentioned here in the U.S. last night on ABC-TV's "Nightline."<BR/><BR/>Peter Wilson, Dave Nason and Shelley Gare of the Australian have done a much, much better job of investigating the credibility of "A Long Way Gone" than American reporters have done. And last night's high-profile story implicitly acknowledged that the Australian reporters had beat their American peers on their own turf.<BR/>JanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com