A Blog?

Just met some young people from a religious organization trying to help in Nanakuli. They do not know what a blog is. I was amazed. It maybe possible that many of our readers are not very sure what a blog is either.

"We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery,

guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate.

The world is all gates, all opportunities."

"Knock Three Times" by Dawn

What Is A Blog?

In general a blog features articles on a particular topic. Ours is mostly on social dancing, but it may include many other things of interest to our reader/dancers. These articles are usually displayed as a list of short article descriptions in date order with the newest article at the top. And in our type of blogs, only one person blogging is referred to as SOS (same old shit.)

We have several classes of blogging people. It had at first been the reader/dancers as most important and we know who most of them are. However with time we have found that the Information Contributors (Two Centers) are the most important factors in our blogs. Those willing to share information and/or photos with their friends, neighbors, relatives and fellow dancers. And definitely not SOS. With Two Centers we got readers. Simple.

Of crucial importance are the Guest Authors, (also not SOS) who may get in, write and post photos, publish, save and get out all on their own without saying boo to anyone.  Eventually they will become the real meat and potatoes of our blogs, and become the owners, information contributors and readers of the blogs. With enough Guest Authors they will run up the hits and I can resign and they can make their own rules.

"Morning Dew" by Bruddah Iz

Most of our blogs will continue to focus on social dancing but many will introduce other types of dance too, such as the peripherals, like Salsa, Line, Swing and Tango. Many blogs will be much more broad and cover multiple topics like local dance news and current events. They can also be more personal, it is all up to the individual Guest Authors. They can write whatever they damn well please.

Pub's Side Note: Check out Richie Fun in the latest Dancing Nights and Town Dancer blogs. Now that is blogging. We are not born with it, we learn it.