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Friday, November 11, 2005

Blogging - what I know so far

Here's what I've learned about Blogs so far:

1. When you write a comment, everyone else who looks at the Blog will be able to read it.

2. You can sign in under an assumed name, as our never-before-heard-of-friend, Dr. Antoine Moon has demonstrated quite well. This can allow for more freedom of expression and/or create chaos -- should be fun.

3. I seem to only be able to download 4 pictures into each Blog posting.

4. Once I upload a photo, if its screwy (witness my last posting), I cannot yet figure out how to delete just one photo, rather if you select delete, it deletes the whole Blog.

5. The word 'Blog' is a derivation of 'web-log'.

6. There are Blog spammers out there -- no sooner had I set this up than an unidentifiable Howard put advertising on one of my blogs. This has forced me to turn on two protections -- word verification -- this will make anyone making a comment repeat a word before publishing. The next thing is that I activated 'moderation', which means that your comment comes to my inbox for me to ok it being published. So you won't have the satisfaction of seeing your comment published to the Blog until the next time I log on to my inbox and ok your posting. The only thing I'll be looking for will be GARBAGE from unknown entities.

Anyone with any insights to any of these things is welcome to comment.

yours in blogging, Gillian

4 Comments:

At 5:34 AM, Blogger Pinkerton said...

What?

 
At 8:50 AM, Blogger Gillian & Mike said...

the first comment here by "Howard" is an example of one problem with Blogging. It appears to be a random form of advertising. Because I cannot seem to delete this intruder's posting, I'm forced to leave it there,but I have changed the settings so that I must 'moderate' all comments. Therefore, when you hit 'publish' you won't see your comment published right away -- I will have to ok them -- that gives me the option to delete GARBAGE before it gets onto our Blog. Merci!

 
At 8:51 AM, Blogger Gillian & Mike said...

yeah, I just figured out how to delete HOWARD!!!! Yahoo -- my belief in blogging is renewed.

 
At 6:06 PM, Blogger Pinkerton said...

Bon soir, Howard!

 

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