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    Terrific 'Capture Kern' book powered by the people

    By Bakersfield.com
    Wednesday, Nov 09 2011 05:17 PM

    "Capture Kern County" the book debuted at an invite-only release party last week and it's as good a portrait of our region that's ever been published.

    Why?

    Because it was shaped through 21,993 submissions from 1,084 amateur and professional photographers sharing their images on CaptureKernCounty.com. The best of those images made the final cut for the book, filling 128 pages with often breath-taking photos on a wide variety of subjects. It's a document as diverse as the county in which we live.

    The project, sponsored by The Bakersfield Californian and Tejon Ranch, launched in May and gave amateur and professional photographers a chance to share their visions of Kern in more than 30 categories. Site visitors shared 458,408 votes and 14,103 comments, and editors used those reader votes to help narrow down the 200 or so images that made the final cut for the full-cover hardcover book.

    Californian photographers are well represented, but we know they're good. What shocked me was the depth, diversity and quality of the submissions. Magic happens when 3,000-plus people document "their" Kern County and remind us what a special place we live in.

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    Capture Kern County photo book goes to press

    Five months after we first began accepting your submissions, the Capture Kern County photo book has gone the printer. And we must say the proofs look fabulous!

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    iPad app now available for Bakersfield Californian replica edition

    It's taken us awhile but a replica edition of The Bakersfield Californian is now available for the iPad.

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    Capture Kern lets you picture your county

    When we launched CaptureKernCounty.com less a month ago, we expected you to like it. But we've been blown away by how much you love it.

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    Monster job section launches

    It's been about six months since Monster.com purchased Yahoo HotJobs, our online recruitment partner for the last few years. Since early fall, our recruitment section has carried a HotJobs by Monster brand as we worked on a transition to Monster's software. As of this weekend, we have completed that migration. It's all Monster moving forward.

  6. B.com staff blogs get a new look, new commenting tools

    Did you find something a little wacky with the staff blogs earlier today? Several of you called and emailed, thinking we'd blocked you from commenting. That wasn't the case though.

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    Our new homepage redesign

    As you may have noticed, we have launched a redesign of our homepage, the first major changes in quite a while. 

  8. 2-hour auctions feature hot items starting at $1

    Our partners at Boocoo Auctions are hosting a series of two-hour auctions beginning this afternoon that will benefit the Boys & Girls Club.

  9. Changes to bakersfield.com homepage

    This afternoon we launched a few tweaks to the bakersfield.com homepage that include:

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    Blackberry app now available for 661411

    It's taken us awhile but we're please to offer a 661411 app for Blackberry smartphones. You can find the app in the Blackberry App World store for $1.99.

    The Blackberry app is our second; we launched an iPhone/iPod Touch app earlier this year. And we're working on an Android app that we hope to start selling soon.

    We're also working to add "exclusive" content to the apps as well as rework some of what is already there. We're always open to constructive feedback on what you like and what you don't.

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    Sign up for our Daily Deal offers

    In six days we will launch Bakersfield Daily Deal, featuring at least 50% savings at a wide variety of local businesses. 
     
    Because these deals are really good, we're recommending you sign up for email alerts to learn when we've posted a new offer. If you sign up by Sept. 12, you'll be entered for a chance to win a $50 Target gift card. We'll also be launching Facebook and Twitter alerts, and front-page and homepage promotion once we launch. 
     
    A sampling of the first month's deals include food, healthy and beauty, car care, clothing, recreational sports, live events, and much more. We're keeping that list a secret because we want to surprise you every day. 
     
    There are other competitors in this turf but we believe we can deliver better local deals, more promotion and more bang for our advertisers than the alternatives. But it's a win-win for everyone, whether you're buying or selling. 

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    Monster closes purchase of HotJobs, becomes our new recruitment partner

     We are excited to announce that The Californian and bakersfield.com are now partnered with Monster Worldwide Inc. to help power our local online recruitment section