New Social Contract

WEBLOGS

What is a “Blog”? Short for web log. Web logs comprise short or long comments about links to articles, sites, press releases and discussions. Thousands of users have web logs and many update them daily or even many times a day. Many services are available and offer a variety of blogging options, all characterized by a simple web form to add and edit items. Submitting the form updates your site. The services are essentially a web-based tool that help you publish to the web instantly, whenever the urge strikes.

The purpose of a blog in New Social Contract terms is:

To keep interest up in the issue, increase traffic on your web site, and that of New Social Contract.

To provide a running commentary on news items that impact your issue so that you will gain a readership of people interested in your issue and potentially interested in participating in the NSC.

The advantages of using a blog are:

It can be a free service.
If you are a fair, diligent, and facile writer, you will attract a large base interested in your analysis of an important issue and be able to relate that issue to NSC, which will in turn increase your audience.
You can write as much or as little as you like every day.
An outline you might consider for your daily blog might be as follows:
A news event of the day, and the meaning of that in terms of your issue.
Discussion of an issue related to your major issue.
Why this is potentially important to the reader.
References they might like to peruse to learn more about this issue. (Include your assessment of the bias of the references.)
Make sure you put your web address in the header of your blog; you may want to include that of newsocialcontract.com

How to get started with a blog:

Go to Blogger.com (or another blog service - they make their money from advertising or an ad-free paid site)

Select “Create Your Blog Now”.

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socrates@newsocialcontract.org