by Citizen Wausau on September 14th, 2009
After what seems like years of hard work and a final push over a busy weekend, the Citizen Wausau of old has been taken out back sent to live on a nice farm upstate to make way for a new site that is bigger (sorry), badder (in a good way), and bolder (slightly?).
We hope you’ll take a few moments to browse around and explore, but before you do, we have a very important favor to ask of our existing members. As you may have noticed, this new iteration of the site offers features that we could only have dreamed about when we launched two years ago. But to use the newly-added social networking options, you’ll need to login to your profile. Once you’re logged in, use the My Profile link, go to Profile » Edit Profile and fill in the Name field.
While you’re there, feel free to add any other profile information or add an avatar, but the Name field MUST be filled out for your account to work properly. We apologize for this hiccup, but there doesn’t seem to be any way around it.
Thank you again for your support, interest, and patience as we work out the kinks in this new design, and as always, we look forward to hearing your feedback!
by Citizen Wausau on September 9th, 2009
Citizen Wausau launched in October of 2007, and while we’re not a household name, we feel that we’ve managed to make at least somewhat of a mark on the community. We’ve had some good times, but now that we’re nearing our second anniversary, the consensus is that it’s finally time to take the site down….and replace it with a new one.
That’s right! We’ve got a shiny new version of Citizen Wausau that we’re just itching to unleash. Of course, no site (re-)launch is without its hassles, and so we ask of you, the reader, to bear with us during what will probably be about a week (or less) of downtime as we put the old site out to pasture and get the kinks worked out of the fancy-schmancy new one.
After we return, please bear with us through what will hopefully be a mercifully short beta period while we get all the kinks worked out that we missed until people actually started using the site.We don’t have an exact schedule, but expect the site to begin its hibernation sometime on Friday.
We’ll be sure to Twitter away when it’s back. And if you’re following us in RSS, you’ll see a post when we return.
Thanks for all your support so far, and we can hardly wait for all of you to check out the new digs!
by Citizen Wausau on August 19th, 2009
It has been a long time since we have all been in the same room. The site is growing, we are working on this and we are working on that, and new writers are showing up constantly. So, we are getting together this week at Malarkeys to just relax. Some of you are new; some of you have been here since day one. We would love to see you all. Come down to Malarkeys around 530 pm on Thursday and raise a glass.
Thanks to Eric at Pushmedia for putting this together for us.
by Citizen Wausau on September 9th, 2008
We must be out of the summer doldrums, because we have had a flurry of activity on the CW personal blogs. It is my pleasure to showcase a few, with the understanding that these links are merely a sampling, and that in fact you should be spending lots and lots of time exploring the Citizen Wausau community:
• I really feel it’s necessary to start off this week with a shout-out to the Green Bay Packers News blog, because the football season is upon us.
• Our own politicalactorvist, now a freshman at UW-Eau Claire, has a close call where he temporarily thinks an old friend died in a car crash. They didn’t, but the kid who did really, really did not have to.
• With his movie premiere completed, the soon-to-be-Baltimorean Erik takes a moment to consider the work that went into it, and to write a bit about what it feels like to have a chance to step back and watch it as an audience member.
• Tom Neal gears up for a radio show of protest songs with some thoughts on the form and a call for requests for his Thursday-night show.
• And dcvoterboy considers the state of parking and policy in downtown Wausau.
by Citizen Wausau on September 3rd, 2008
All right everyone, now is the time to get serious. Enough of the fun and frivolity. It is time for LINKS:
• The wonderful and talented Andy Laub – actor, designer, coding monkey, singer, player of Rock Band – has solved a problem that has dogged CW for some time, which is the preponderance of fake-people who want to start fake-blogs dedicated to spamming you and everyone around you. Current real-person bloggers are unaffected, and future real-person bloggers need only undergo a short validation period and then will be set loose into the wide world, where you want to be. (more…)
by Citizen Wausau on August 19th, 2008
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and your blogs are the sun! Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, who is already sick and pale with grief. … Your blogs are my lady, O, they are my love! O that you knew they were!
• The Green Bay Packers News blog does post-game thoughts despite the fact that football season has not even begun yet. This blog does seem to exert some kind of control over punter Jon Ryan, which is impressive.
• Erik posts an internet commercial he produced for Central Wisconsin-based Point Beer which features a woman wearing a bikini. I am appalled.
• The “Things I Have Thought of Carefully” blog makes a triumphant return with a gripe about people opening their car doors into traffic. Personally I just swerve into them, take off the doors and go about my day.
• Fresh off the epic music discussion on the main board, Tom Neal posts another fun playlist that includes a little something old and a little something new.
• And Dino writes about workout partners, framed portraits of Karch Kiraly, and muay thai fighting.
by Citizen Wausau on August 12th, 2008
Your Voice took a week off last week but we are back in the groove again, and really it is easy because there is so much good stuff being posted in the CW personal blogs:
• Cheryl Mathis has a playground workout that probably lots of us could benefit from. I think she should put out a line of videos.
• Welcome to the new blogger Stephenie and her blog “Adventures of a Midwest Sound Girl.” I’d expect a Midwest sound girl to have some pretty interesting adventures, so it will be fun to hear updates on bands she sees and other aspects of the Audio Life. For instance, I have a question, why are bands always asking for more vocals in the monitor? The vocal levels are fine, just chill out already with the asking for more vocals in the monitor, okay?
• Soundtrack news on Erik’s movie.
• Less word-posts, more pictures of puppydogs. That is what this place needs.
• Our own politicalactorvist has been to the United States Student Association’s Summer Congress and even drafted a resolution of some sort.
• And Billie of the “A Stable Personality” blog reflects rather poetically on the physical aftermath of all that hay-stacking.
by Citizen Wausau on July 29th, 2008
I am having a hard time coming up with a good intro. But there is a lot of very interesting reading for one and all in CW’s personal blogs this week:
• Working with hay bales is hard work, man, if you have done it you know it is no joke. On the “A Stable Personality” blog, Billie tells a nice, warm story about stacking hay bales with friends, and about stacking hay bales as a random act of kindness.
• christopher thinks about technology and connectedness, and ponders severing the cord.
• The first-ever Green Bay Packers News podcast! The man is a natural.
• A near-crash, followed by a real crash, a pursuit, and a breathalyzer test. Stephenie writes about the consequences of underage drinking and driving, and about how police choose to apply punishment.
• And an update from politicalactorvist, who tells us that he is switching from the “actor” side to the political for a little while.
by Citizen Wausau on July 25th, 2008
[We want to thank Jane Neal for these questions. It was great to get help from someone who writes for a living, and teaches. If you have a set of questions, please feel free to send them to us. Dino.]
1. When you listen to music, are you listening for the melody, the lyrics, or the whole package? I think different people love and listen differently. I can love a song totally for what it says, but I know other people who love songs and have no idea what’s being said in the lyrics. (”Hold me close, young Tony Danza”)
2. Are you more defined by your dwelling or your vehicle? My first car was a Chevy Camaro…wow, I still miss him. (I saw one very similar to him yesterday and it had COLLECTOR’s PLATES!)
Now my car is a vehicle that gets me from hither to yon. And my bike does that when the trip is short and the weather is fine. My home is my haven.
3. What’s your favorite bar and/or restaurant in town? Why? I used to value merely good service (having my water glass filled without having to ask) and a degree of anonymity. Now, I appreciate the “Cheers” aspect of being greeted and made to feel welcome. One surly barkeep can drive me away (unless the food or drinks are REALLY good).
4. Do you wear socks with sandals? Please tell me why. I come from a much warmer clime and sandals are for wearing when the weather is warm. If it is so cold that you require socks, perhaps you should wear, I don’t know … shoes?
5. Do you have any food quirks? Things you won’t eat, or things you only eat a certain way? I prefer not to eat raw tomatoes or raw onions, but will eat both cooked. But prefer raw carrots to cooked ones. I will not eat mushrooms. (hello! Fungus!) Conversely, I will not discuss whether the bleu cheese on my salad or the gorgonzola melting across my steak and stuffed into the olive in my martini may in fact, be moldy cheese. Lalalalala … I can’t hear you.
by Citizen Wausau on July 21st, 2008
Welcome, one and all. It was a relatively quiet week in the CW personal blogs section, though perhaps that’s because there were so much great front-page submissions. Here are just a few of the highlights from the past week in the blogs:
• Jill Knetter writes about being maid of honor at her mother’s wedding. She has some conflicting emotions, and some very personal but also rather universal thoughts about marriage and family.
• Andy Laub looks back at the just-closed WCT performance of Over the River & Through the Woods, in which he played the lead. And he looks forward to the upcoming production of Sweeney Todd!
• Erik has a date for the Wausau screening of his movie Microcosm: It’s Sept. 5 at UWMC.
• And the Green Bay Packers News blog is doing its Green Bay Packers news thing, plus a very worthwhile shot at the places that have been censoring anti-Favre speech.
