Does anyone out there know of any websites or services that would help OKers keep "blogs"? I could envision a nice interface that would allow a person to maintain and make daily updates to a web site without having to know anything about writing HTML.

As far as I understand it, "blog" is short for "web log". The idea behind a blog is to make short records of a person's life, or really anything that needs to be kept in a log form. It seems to me that it would be incumbent upon all OKers to investigate the possibility of setting up their own blogs. As far as we know, there are no OKers currently maintaining blogs... or are there?

-- Mook (everett@psi.edu), January 30, 2001

Answers

What is a blog? According to a web page I bumped in to:

A weblog, in case you're not familiar with the concept, is a Web page where a weblogger (sometimes called a "blogger") creates short items in a single page, with the most recent entry added on top of the last. A reader typically visits a weblog page and reads down to where he or she left off the last time the page was visited.

Items can be anything (what I ate for lunch today), but most often webloggers comment and link to interesting articles and content that they find on the Web relevant to their chosen topic area, and offer analysis or opinion.

A couple of sites that will help OKers (and anyone for that matter) keep a blog are www.blogger.com and www.pitas.com. I think both of these places will even provide free web space to keep your blog.

Perhaps it won't be long before OKers are maintaining blogs all over the place (will fritz.pitas.com be a page bookmarked by all OKers?).

Mook has maintained a blog or two for quite a while. Take a look at:

http://www.uokh.f2s.com/

(click on the link to 'sup). http://www.uokh.f2s.com/mookdiary.html

-- Michael (meglin@juno.com), January 30, 2001.

Well! Good to have something like this, which I have now bookmarked. Those of us without TVs, (who thus don't watch Survivor), have been jonesing* for some soap-opera style drama ever since the demise lat summer of "One Foot in the Forest". Thank you, Mook!

*(apologies to the prez if she's offended by this terminology)

-- J-J (jjcote@juno.com), February 02, 2001.

I've been working on a blog for the last month or so. Basically, it is a complement to my training log at attackpoint. I've been trying to write something every day. Most days, I write something about my training or orienteering.

I had a couple of reasons to start a blog. First, while attackpoint is an incredibly good place to keep a training log, it doesn't have a good way to handle things like planning. Second, I enjoy reading Mooks' blogs. I thought it might be fun to return the favor. Third, I read about the blogger software and web site and thought it'd be fun to try (www.blogger.com).

My blog is at:

http://www.geocities.com/okansas.geo/blogger.html

-- Spike (mike_eglinski@kcmo.org), February 02, 2001.