New Forum for Bloggers and posters with personal web sites!

Free Republic | 04/11/04 | Jim Robinson

[Jim Robinson]

New Forum for Bloggers and posters with personal web sites!

For all of you who have blogs or personal web sites or personal news sites that you would like to promote on Free Republic, here's the place to do it.

Post your blogs here. Or if you like to post from other peoples blogs, post them here.

Post your from your personal web sites here. Post from other peoples personal web sites here.

Promote your blog or your favorite blog sites here.

Promote your personal web site here or your favorite personal web sites here.

Post from your favorite outside forums here.

Post from your favorite lefty sites here. If you like to discuss DU and the like, here's the place to do it.

Hopefully, this will become a very popular forum for bloggers and personal opinion/news pages.

Thanks,

Jim

[lowbridge]

Jeepers, ANOTHER variaton!

I have not yet begun to variate.

Blogsians

Blogett

Blogetters

Bloggites

Bloggees

[Lead Moderator]

I want to head off a bit of controversy before it even appears.

The purpose of this is twofold.

1) To make it so that some things which, to date, have been pulled will no longer need to be pulled. This should make the posters of such things happier, and make it so that those who would enjoy those things happier.

2) Help keep the main forum less cluttered.

And this should be done without watering down the main forum.

Blog posts are very similar to vanities, but had not been treated as such since they were 'published' elsewhere. The new forum will allow us to treat them more like vanities. The substantive posts in this category will still be welcome in the main forum. It would be a mistake, for example, to move Wretchard's incredible analysis of the Iraq fighting out of the main forum.

Also, some blogs have attained a status which is comparable to the web presence of major publications. Instapundit comes to mind, as does Lileks. With almost half a million visitors since December, I think the aforementioned Wretchard falls into that category as well. Little Green Footballs. The Volokh Conspiracy. I am not talking about the one line entries by these monsters of the blogosphere, but rather the longer posts they do which are essentially self-published articles. These are not going to be moved.

Similarly, certain writers and pundits have their own blogs. Roger L. Simon. NRO's The Corner. Mickey Kaus. These professional writers blog posts are generally not going to be moved by me.

This is obviously going to mean that there is some subjectivity involved. Some are going to say the moderators are not being consistent. That is all understood, and to some degree will be true. Despite this, the end result will still be a tidier, more on-focus main forum with fewer threads flat-out pulled, and as such will be an improvement over the status quo.

Thanks, LM

[tdadams]

Thanks for this addition. It's been much needed.

[EllaMinnow]

Quick question, LM -
I've been under the impression that I can't post from Kausfiles because he's under the MSN umbrella. Is just using one entry of his blog enough of an "excerpt" that it can be posted?

What I'm trying to ask is - under copyright settlements, is a blog entry a WHOLE, or an excerpt?

[Valin]

Bump and bookmark.

IM(not so)HO the Iraqi Blogs are must reads.

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

Cool.

Now that we have this new directory, it's time for an open and shameless self-promotion!

http://www.bayoubrawl.blogspot.com

Although, it's more of an archive for my columns that an actual blog, I don't have as much time to "blog" as other people. Still, I hope I loaded it with enough goodies to make for interesting reading.

[liberallarry]

thanks for the heads up.

I'd like to be on your list ONLY if you promise not to ping me more than once a month.

I'm overwhelmed as it is and the last time I tried one of these specialized lists I went under. :)

[.45MAN]

ping

[Valin]

Now that we have this new directory, it's time for an open and shameless self-promotion!


You're shameless! :-)

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Thank you, JimRob.

[GummyIII]

Great idea...thank you.

FYI, Kim!

[jpsb]

Hey yall can archive at my site in my forum

click

Enter the site and look fort the forum link, I think you will like it, very FR like, (wonder why?).

[TheConservativeCitizen]

The Conservative Citizen Commentary Column: http://dkhunt.tripod.com/

[WinOne4TheGipper]

To what extent are we allowed to discuss DU? Can we maintain a "Dumbest things said on DU" Thread?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Outstanding RonDog!

Now if I could find more hours in a day!

[the OlLine Rebel]

OK, I have some surely stupid questions.


General: what the heck is a blog? I've never bothered to ask tho sometimes I run across it.


Specific: with all the talk of blog, I'm not clear on whether this forum is still open to just-plain-discussions. Like normal forums, where you can start a thread on anything (here I suppose it would be politics-oriented) WITHOUT having to reference anything. Say I just wanted to rant out a personal "essay" (perhaps even just a paragraph?) on smoking bans. Can this be done? 1 of the things that bugs me here is the apparent obligation to post an article. Sometimes we just want to chat about a subject, and somebody has to start it somehow, but why should they have to post an article about it? Can we do this more free-wheeling opinion stuff here?

[Freedom2specul8]

Now that would be funny!

[\/\/ayne]

How do you post to the Blogger's forum? Is it in "Topics?" I didn't see it there.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

Well, I haven't heard back from JimRob on it, and of course, this would be a job for more than just one person, so the way I'd work it is that people could FReepmail me the quote, along with the screenname of the poster and the URL. I think it could become one of FR's better threads.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

JimRob hasn't answered this question yet and I was wondering if you could, so ping to no. 34, more specifics in no. 39. Thank you.