How to leave comments
It seems that since our blog has taken on this fancy new look, some of our readers (namely our parents) have had difficulties in leaving comments. Readers’ comments make for some of the best entertainment this blog has to offer; therefore, I will now outline the proper way to leave a comment on Folinazzo.com:
1) Choose the entry for which you would like to leave a comment. At the bottom of almost every entry, next to the “Category” (i.e. Italia, Famiglia), you will see either “No Comments”, “1 Comment” (or the number of however many comments have been left), or you will see nothing at all.
2) Going with the two first scenarios described above: click on the link labeled “No Comments” or “1 Comment”. You will be taken to another page and there will be a section labeled “Leave a Reply”. Below that are three boxes: one asks for your name (you can use your Christian name or some geeky nickname you have given yourself); another asks for your email address (again, it is required and your email address will NOT be published anywhere on the blog or on BootsnAll); and your website’s URL, if you in fact have your own website or blog (if you do not, leave this box empty). Next is a large box in which you may type your comment. Once you have finished that, look to the right of the Reply box. There you should find a smaller box, possibly shaded in a different color (such as pink), with a series of numbers and/or letters. Do not be alarmed; simply type the characters as you see them in the tiny box to the lower left of the shaded-in box. (This is done to prevent comment spammers from polluting our blog.) Then all you have to do is click on “Submit Comment” and your words of wisdom, words of praise, or (most likely) words of ridicule will go down in Folinazzo.com infamy.
3) If you wish to leave a comment for an entry and there is no link labeled “No Comments” or “1 Comment”, there is just a blank space, click on the title of that specific entry (for example, the title of this entry is “How to leave a comment on our blog”). That will take you to the “Leave a Reply” page mentioned above. From that point on, just follow the directions outlined in #2 and you are good to go!
I hope this helps, and I also hope that more of you start leaving comments! It is not as much fun to keep this blog without your participation.
Posted by Francesca
September 15th, 2007 at 1:31 pm
Just emailed you on Flickr— please go see that comment and request….
Holly
September 16th, 2007 at 7:48 am
Dear Francesca
(We also put this on note on Flickr).
My name is Skip Lombardi. Holly (Holly Chase) is my inamorata and partner in crime and all other things in my life.
I wrote a small cookbook in 2004 called Almost Italian, which featured approximately 87 recipes that have come to be associated with Italians and Italian culture but that were–in fact–invented here in America. You know the sort–Clams Casino, Chicken Parmesan, Pasta alla Caruso….
We are planning to do a 2nd edition –online–of Almost Italian, and that is where we would love to include some of your photos. Mostly the vintage b&w pictures, but also a few of your own contemporary shots (like that great portrait of your dad making meatballs & GRAVY). We want to show faces of those who personify the Italian-American experience. And you have certainly got them! We would not identify the people in the photos.
Although we may eventually produce and market a modest PDF text-only version of the cookbook (recipes and commentary), your photos would appear only on the blog-posts. We would want to make this a mutually satisfying experience and so would want to include a photo credit and link back to you. We propose something like the text below, which would appear on each page that featured one of your photos.
* Photo (s) by (or courtesy of) Francesca (Surname or screen ID).
All rights reserved. http://flickr.com/photos/freesia1/ (or better yet, your blog address)
Your blog has the spirit we are trying to capture, and we would hope that you’d get some serious traffic back from our site to your own.
So, whaddya think?
We’d love to exchange links with you. You already have the main address: http://skiplombardi.org/blog
The cookbook feed won’t be up for a few days, but we have got a separate domain name for it, which will be http://almostitalian.com
Thanks for getting back to us so quickly. We look forward to a fun and fruitful collaboration! Please use our REAL email addresses below (that will make it easier for all of us to keep track of our correspondence.
Tante grazie e buon appetito!
Skip Lombardi skiplombardi@gmail.com
hollychase@verizon.net
941-330-8738 home
Holly Chase & Skip Lombardi
1718 Prospect Street
Sarasota, FL 34239
hollychase@verizon.net
http://hollychase.igc.org and http://www.AsiaMinorTours.com