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Well, as expected, the posts are not frequent while I work on the redesign of this blog. Surprisingly, last month still had 30 comments - totaling $15.00 of Comment Love. All $15.00 was donated to KQED.

I will be dropping the amount of working hours per week in the next week or two which will help speed up the redesign process. The design is already at the point where I could implement a beta if I was not as concerned about getting all the details right. I hope to write a little about the process in the coming weeks. Thanks to all who have commented even with my lack of updates.comment love, comments, donations, july 2008, kqed public radio

I am still trying to find the right balance for commitment on this blog until things settle down. I was a bit infrequent in updates during February 2008, but we still had 35 comments - totaling $16.50 of Comment Love. All $16.50 was donated to KQED.

My blog break still has not fully kicked in, as can be seen with relatively frequent blog posts. Still, I can assure you that it will be coming soon. I am hoping that some guest posts will be coming - it is looking rather likely that it will in fact happen. My hope is that, even with the lack of posts from me, we will get above the $20 or $30 mark - something that has not happened in a while.

Fingers crossed…

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It took me a while to post this, although I post-dated it at December 31. Because I had not made many posts during December, I decided to donate $30 to KQED for a little extra Comment Love karma.

The good news is that the traffic is definitely starting to go back up. The bad news is that the amount of comments do not seem to be following the traffic. With a little luck, that will change in the coming weeks and we will be seeing $50 donations once again.

Here’s to a good January.

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It has been a very long time since I have followed through on the monthly Comment Love feature. I honestly have no idea how much money as been tallied up through comments, although I know my lack of blogging participation has brought about little comment participation… So as a nice little clear-the-board action, I decided to donate $100 to Carbonfund to take care of all the past months.

With this month’s contribution, we offset 51,655 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or 18.18 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund’s calculator. From this point on, I will be blogging more, which (hopefully) means more comments, which means more donations.

Thanks for the patience and the comments!c02, carbonfund, comment love, donations, love mpg

June’s Comment Love came close to the $50 thanks to a couple posts that garnered quite a bit of discussion. There were 94 comments this month which totaled $47.00. All $47.00 was donated to Carbonfund.org this month.

With this month’s contribution, we offset 22,210 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or 8.55 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund.org. We broke $50 last month and were just a sliver away this month - I am very happy about that. I think a lot of the responsibility for keeping these numbers up is on me in order to write articles that drive discourse - I will really be pushing that aspect of this site from this point on.

I also have no forgotten about the Good Magazine give-away feature for this month… I will be posting that later today.

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