How a Blog Works

For those of you unfamiliar with how a blog works (which includes most of us!), I have a few tips to share.

The most important thing to know is that most blogs are temporally put in reverse order. That is, the top of the page is the most recent posting. To get a full and chronological "read", you must start at the bottom of the page (or with the earliest posting), and read upwards. With a new blog such as this one, that's fairly easy to do. And, it means that over time you only need to read the most recent postings to keep up with things.

Also important to know is that blog postings can be commented on, and can in fact be continually revised by the author. So - this gives great advantage to us when we make mistakes, but it also means we need to be aware of the flexibility of what is on the blog. What was there one day may be removed the next, or what was not there may emerge unbeknowst to you.

Another tip: blog postings can be time-corrected. That is, by clicking the section called "Post and Comment Options" (the blue section in the picture below), I can change the time to be whatever I wish it to be. So, occasionally, when you can't post things when they need to be posted, you can add them in to a blog whenever you want them to be (chronologically). By the way, this picture shows what the screen will look like when you write something to the blog.

So - every technological tool has it's advantages and disadvantages. I think it helps to know both sides! For now, I think I won't post this - it may be too soon for so much detail. Rather, I'll save it for a better time, and then post it, altering the time and date as appropriate. Meanwhile, I'll save this, and share it later. Actual time now is 9:30 AM on 5/3/06.