The next couple of posts will give you some tips about using blogs -- both mine and blogs in general.
Clippings now has thousands of link to stories -- hundreds of them being to stories directly relating to Plainfield. Many of you write asking to track down an old story. That can be a snap. But first, a word about how blogs in general are organized.
Permalinks: What they are, how they help you
Blogs are really just journals, in which entries ('posts') are organized by the slice of time by which they are archived. Some are archived weekly, some monthly. This means that if you land on the homepage of a blog on the first day of its archiving period -- let's say the month -- you will notice that there is only one post, that of the first day.
If you visit on the last day of the month, you will notice that the day's post is the first in a long series -- actually all the postings of the month -- and that you can scroll down the whole list and see each one. (You may also notice that as the number of posts on a page grows, it takes longer to load.)
But when you are looking for a particular story, having 30 stories pop up does you no good. For that reason, blogs are also filed by permalink. The permalink is a link which brings up just that particular story.
For both Plainfield Today and Clippings, the permalink to a particular story is the timestamp at the end of the entry. If you pass your mouse over the time the post was made (say 5:40 a.m.), you see it is a live link. Clicking on that link will bring up that single story as a page by itself.
(Click on image to enlarge)Well, if you want to print out a story, you can print exactly the item you want and not the whole thirty days worth. Or if you want to send it to someone, you can send just the single item and not the whole month's worth of postings.
Other posts on USING BLOGS are:
"Searching a blog, or all blogs"
"Posting a comment"
"Emailing posts to a friend"
-- Dan Damon
Keywords: Blogs
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