Comments on: Calendar question — UPDATE

By: Mark Sweeney

Mark Sweeney — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 17:46:26 +0000

You could always use iCal – create a New Calendar for Beat events, publish that calendar to your .mac account, or to Box.net (free 1 GB server) and then just add a link to your blog.

Just make sure you don’t publish your personal Calendar.

This way people can make both long term plans, or look up what’s happening that day and check things out.

It may take a few minutes to add things each day, but the publishing and link are simple and painless.

By: Randy

Randy — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 15:40:23 +0000

When events that I can attend are announced, I’ll actually add them to my personal calendar! Maybe a quick note about the announcement (and link externally) when it is made, and then a bit more hype shortly prior to the event. Day before/day of tends to be of no use to folks with work/family/extracurricular obligations (read: me).

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 13:11:32 +0000

I’d like a monthly calendar on the side with clickable days that we can click on and it shows us what’s happening on those days.

And seven day list of whats happening would be nice as well. Not weekly, but seven days, knocking off the past day and adding on the new seventh.

By: Marz Richards

Marz Richards — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:42:26 +0000

CRIMINY! I meant John Platt.

By: Marz Richards

Marz Richards — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:41:39 +0000

I agree with Mike Platt and with Tag. I think a collection of interesting events, signings and appearances once is week would be great and a service to the readers. I would not want to interrupt the flavor of the page with a flood of event announcements. I like how the news and events are interspersed with more personal material. That is naturally going to focus more on the East Coast, because that’s where the pirate captain is at.

By: Tag

Tag — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:02:38 +0000

Perhaps it’s just that I’m presently in no position to make use of such announcements, but I think we ought to remember Heidi is not necessarily a clearinghouse of various institutions’ announcements, and we should be grateful to her for those she does choose to publicize, whatever the timetable. Should she wish to change THE BEAT’s focus to serve in that capacity, then there might be cause for complaint, but as it is, she’s already above and beyond the call of service. If someone feels they’re missing out on scheduled events at Hanley’s or MoCCA or Meltdown or wherever, most of said establishments have their own mailing listservs and/or websites through which you can often have lead times of months; same goes for favorite creative types, too. All these resources considered, if you miss out, you only have yourself to blame.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:01:40 +0000

How about Upcoming.org?

By: Michael Climek

Michael Climek — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:23:29 +0000

The first two.

Announce long in advance.

Remind a week before, and a day before.

I was totally clueless about the Garth Ennis & David Lloyd thing, and I’m still upset about it.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:50:33 +0000

I say announce them when they’re announced and then the first of the month you remind us all of the things that you know are upcoming for the month in question. Is that potential double-booking too much? Nah! Anyway, that’s my vote. Peace.

By: Chris Brown

Chris Brown — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:40:26 +0000

I’d like to see them at least a day before. I check this site just about everyday, but there have still been many a time I missed some cool event because I didn’t find out about it until too late.

By: JahFurry

JahFurry — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 01:10:08 +0000

Time is nonlinear.

By: John Platt

John Platt — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:32:31 +0000

List ‘em when they’re announced, reminders they day before?

By: Dan Goldman

Dan Goldman — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:23:24 +0000

Maybe there’s a different WordPress theme you could use, something with 3 colums that you could add that calendar events column into…? You can VERY easily swap into a 3-columned WP theme with minimal rejiggery. There’s lots of themes/etc at http://wp-plugins.net/

By: Primate

Primate — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:50:28 +0000

I vote for event announcements far in advance. I’m one of those long-term planning types.

By: Chris Rice

Chris Rice — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:50:05 +0000

when they are announced, long in advance. Since I am still in the relative wilds of NJ, I need a couple of days to plan a getaway to NYC via NJT. I read you semi-obsessively (boy, did that sound icky), so I read it when it posts up, but more lead time is always better.