What is a Blog? (And why your comments matter!)

April 7, 2008 by TXPoet  
Filed under News

What is a blog?

Wikipedia describes it as:

A blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. “Blog” can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

Why your comments matter!

Did you understand the implications of the last line? A Blog is written to be read. FHK is a blog. Commenting on blogs is essential to the operation of a blog because that tells the writers what subjects you are interested in. Here at FHK we have several writers, each with a different slant, or different area of expertise. What we don’t have is a lot of reader involvement.

It shouldn’t be only “nutroots” or KOS Kiddies commenting. Conservatives and Libertarians alike should make their voices heard with comments!

Commenting costs you nothing, but it does help others understand. There is a lot of information on line, there is a lot of information just in your local paper, there are local issues that would interest other communities, but no matter how many hours a day reading the authors here read and devour news there are some things we will not see. We need you. We need your input.

Your Suggestions and comments will help the writing staff improve and pinpoint areas of interest to you the reader. We want to be your source of information for political conservative issues. Help us provide that service to everyone by commenting either via comments to articles or email.

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This comment section is for the readers of Ft. Hard Knox, a place for political conservatives to share information about online activism. We are not "fair and balanced," and we aren't refereeing a "free speech zone." Intelligent, funny, and on-topic comments are welcome. Trolls, spam, and liberal propaganda are not. We may occassionally approve a comment with an obvious lefty-slant so that we can amuse ourselves by making fun of it, but most will be deleted. (Why? Because we're busy, we have lives, and when we want to talk to you we'll go visit you on Digg or the Daily KOS.)

This is a private blog, and we reserve the right to make up our own rules as we go along. The few comments which manage to squeak by our censors reflect the opinion of the commentator, and not necessarily the staff of Ft. Hard Knox.

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