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Excerpts for the Column Soapboxin' "For those of you who aren't familiar with weblogs, or blogs, they are often described as online diaries or journals. Coming from the newspaper business, I like to think of it as a personal newspaper. In it you can be editor, photographer, columnist, sports writer, movie critic, etc. It is your show. "This is how most of them work ... You select a 'compose' link and you are introduced to a text box much like those used to write e-mail. You may ... add links to other websites or blogs. When you are finished sounding off, press a 'publish' link and your entry is saved chronologically on a page that is accessible to anyone with a computer and a modem." Brian would like to see a city blog created and used to discuss issued facing our city.
Comments from Wayne Bandy Wayne Bandy of Pharmacy Express in Portland says a blog is like a letter-to-the-editor, only easier and faster. It also has the opportunity for others to immediately respond to your 'letter."
The Portland Web Blog NMT Web Designs, LLC (which runs PortlandTN.com) agreed with Brian's suggestion that Portland needs a blog. We have created a blog which you can reach at www.PortlandTN.net. The blog was created July 15, 2005 and is accessible to anybody in Portland and, actually, to anybody in the world. There are two ways to use the Portland blog. Here is what an author would do: 6. The blog will be updated immediately. You can click on "View Site" in the left margin to see the blog as the public would see it. 7. Click "Logoff" if your computer is not in a secure area. Note 1: Blog software, of course, allows authors to create new entries. Most blog software, including the software we use [Movable Type], also allows authors to delete entries they wrote and all of the comments associated with their entry. There is no way that we can keep blog authors from doing this, but we ask you not to! Please do not delete your entries from the blog nor any of the comments people make. This is a historical record of the thoughts of Portland, and we would like to preserve it. Note 2: The following articles or comments are not
welcome on the Portland blog: Note 3: People who create a new entry have the ability to turn off comments (i.e., comments are not allowed). Please do not use this option. The purpose of the blog is to have discussions, and turning off the comment flag defeats this purpose. Note 4: Under very rare circumstances, the blog administrator may turn the comments flag off. This may occur if the discussion has gotten totally out of hand. Note 5: Moveable type uses extensive filters to filter out spam. (It currently filters out over 100 spam messages per day.) This is done automatically, and we do not review what's being deleted. If you post a comment with two or more links to external sites, Moveable Type will assume that is spam. Note 6: If you are starting a new business, we welcome you to post one or two messages to introduce yourself and your business. However, please do not use the blog to advertise your business on a regular basis. For example, if you are a new real estate agent, we'd all like to know about you. However, after that, please do not post your house listings on the blog. :-) It is very easy to become a blog author. (This lets you post main
entries on the blog as well as comments.) If you would like to be a blog author on
www.PortlandTN.net, please contact Charlie Myers at
cfmyers@mindspring.com. The more authors we have, the better the
Portland blog will work! All you need to do is to send Charlie an e-mail
and let him know you'd like to be a blog author. You don't need to
include any other information.
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