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Comment Love for January 2007

Posted on 1 February, 2007 at 5:46pm with no comments

This month’s Comment Love was well timed since KQED is currently having its pledge drive. If you are a listener of public radio you almost assuredly know of (and detest) the pledge drives. Mind you, we do not seem to complain much when we basically get ad-free radio with top-notch content. The pledge drive is part of the game – the double-edged sword if you will.

Well, this humble site gave its part to the cause by donating $38.00 for the month of January. Mind you, this is a small piece of the total amount needed for this drive, but every little bit helps. And it is all thanks to you. Once again, I want to thank all the frequent (and not-too frequent) commenters on this site. I get more positive feedback on this Comment Love feature than anything else in the site. So I guess I am at least doing one thing right. We still have not had a $50 month yet and I am really hoping that will be the case very soon. If we start running into a string of maxed out months, I will raise the cap if that is any incentive.

If you are a public radio listener, I highly suggest donating to KQED or your local public radio station. They deserve our help.

Comment Love for December 2006

Posted on 1 January, 2007 at 8:27pm with 7 comments

After a two week hiatus, which has made me moderately refreshed, it is fitting that my first post is the last month of Comment Love for the year of 2006. There were 61 comments this month which ended up equaling $30.50. All $30.50 was donated to Carbonfund.org this month.

For December, we offset roughly 15753 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or the equivalent of 5.54 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund.org. Since starting Comment Love in October, we have offset a little over 11 tons of C02 for the year. Pretty damned amazing.

I want to thank all the folks who have commented on this blog since the Comment Love feature has started. Of course, I will continue to do this every month this year and for as long as this blog exists (and I can afford it). I am looking forward to getting back into the routine of writing for this blog and I am hoping you get back into the routine of reading it.

Comment Love for November 2006

Posted on 2 December, 2006 at 11:16am with 4 comments

Here are the results for November’s Comment Love. There were 71 comments this month which ended up equaling $35.50. Kellie donated $5.50 to bring the total to $41.00. All $41.00 was donated to KQED. During the last pledge drive, KQED needed roughly $1.5 million in donations for the next year of programming. Based on that amount of money, our $41.00 made up for 0.0027% of the amount of money needed. Yes, that is a small percentage, but considering it was simply generated from people commenting on a random blog, it is not too bad. Looking at it another way, 0.0027% equals roughly 14.2 minutes of programming time for the year. Hey, that is almost an entire segment!

November looked like we were going to make the $50 cap for sure until Thanksgiving rolled around (thanks a lot pilgrims…). I am guessing something similar will happen, but just on a larger scale, for Christmas. Still, I would love to be proved wrong…

Comment Love for October 2006

Posted on 1 November, 2006 at 10:03am with 9 comments

I am pleased to give the results for the first month of Comment Love and I must say, I am very excited both about the results for this month as well as the sort of difference this can potentially make. There were 63 comments this month which ended up equaling $31.50. All $31.50 was donated to Carbonfund.org this month.

So what are the results of this relatively minor sum of money? Well, for just a little over $30, we offset 16273 miles driven from a car with the average miles per gallon (25.2 mpg) or the equivalent of 5.73 tons of C02 according to Carbonfund.org. In one month, we offset over a year’s worth of driving for a single car – that’s pretty impressive. Make no mistake, these numbers are amazingly small in the big picture considering that the US produced 524 million metric tons in 1996 with coal burning alone. Looking at it that way, the numbers seem staggering and the change made by this donation inconsequential. Nonetheless, it is a change and a significant one if looked at as local change.

I want to thank all the folks that commented and helped generate the donations. I hope this is the only month that does not reach the $50 cap. I am still trying to come up with the best way to promote frequent commenters. If anyone has a brilliant idea, by all means, leave a comment here or email me.

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