{"id":833,"date":"2003-06-20T20:50:08","date_gmt":"2003-06-21T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/faq\/"},"modified":"2003-06-20T20:50:08","modified_gmt":"2003-06-21T00:50:08","slug":"faq","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/faq\/","title":{"rendered":"FAQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a16'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#003399\" size=\"+3\"><strong>The Dowbrigade&#8217;s Frequently Asked Questions<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"#weblog\">What is a Blog?<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#hosted\">Where is this Blog hosted?<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#use\">How does one Blog?<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#feldman\">Who is this Michael Feldman guy?<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/stories\/storyReader$367\">What kind of guy is he?<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#editorial\">Dowbrigade Editorial Policy<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#dowbrigade\">What is the Dowbrigade?<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"#member\">Where does all this stuff come from?<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/12#a607\">Aren&#8217;t you worried about Copyright violations?<\/a>\n  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"weblog\"><\/a><strong>What is a Blog?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What is a Blog? Short for Web Log, it is an evolving form for spontaneous,<br \/>\n  instantaneous personal and community publishing. A great place to start in<br \/>\n  understanding the phenomena is with Dave Winer&#8217;s excellent and recently published<br \/>\nessay <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/whatMakesAWeblogAWeblog\">&#8220;What makes<br \/>\na Web log a Weblog&#8221;;<\/a>.There are literally hundreds of thousands of blogs in<br \/>\nexistence, so the mere fact that you are reading mine is a much appreciated minor<br \/>\nmiracle\/<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"hosted\"><\/a><strong>Where is our Blog hosted?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As you can probably tell from the URL, this Blog is hosted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/\">Berkman<br \/>\n  Center for Internet &amp; Society at the Harvard Law School<\/a> ( http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/<br \/>\n  ). The Berkman Center has become a nexus for the burgeoning blogger movement<br \/>\n  and is currently ramping up for the huge <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/bloggerCon\/\">  BloggerCom<br \/>\n  2003 Conference<\/a> ,<\/p>\n<p>I can do this because I have a post.Harvard.edu email address. At the present<br \/>\n    time, as far as I can tell, anyone with an email address ending in harvard.edu<br \/>\n    can create a blog on the Law School server. Blogs are a novel phenomena and<br \/>\n  you can find out a lot more about them from links on the Berkman Center site. <\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"use\"><\/a><strong>How does one Blog?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The learning curve for most blogs is about as flat as Nebraska.<br \/>\n  The Harvard law server runs a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/manilla.userland.com\">Manila<\/a> ,<br \/>\n  which is considered one of the best balances between full functionality<br \/>\n  and ease-of-use. Interested readers can go directly to the <a href=\"http:\/\/manilanewbies.userland.com\/usersguide\/detailedtoc\">Manila<br \/>\n  newbie pag<\/a>e<br \/>\n  with links to the <a href=\"http:\/\/manilanewbies.userland.com\/usersguide\/detailedtoc\">Manila<br \/>\nuser guide <\/a>, in html and PDF formats. <\/p>\n<p>\n  Basically, everyone who connects to our blog fits into one of four classes<br \/>\n    of users: <\/p>\n<p>  &#8212; <strong>The Managing Editor<\/strong> (me) : Most blogs are the voice of a single person,<br \/>\n    who controls all of the content on the site. I can post news articles or<br \/>\n    stories, start discussion groups, maintain the home page, and edit or delete<br \/>\n    articles<br \/>\n    by other contributors. Power corrupts. <\/p>\n<p>  &#8212; <strong>Contributing Editors<\/strong> : If anyone is interested in being<br \/>\n  a regular contributor to this blog, I will add them to the list of &quot;Contributing<br \/>\n  Editors&quot;. This<br \/>\n    means they can post news articles and stories, and edit their own contributions,<br \/>\n    but not the work of others. So far no takers.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8212; <strong>Members<\/strong> : by filling out the super-simple membership form,<br \/>\n  or by posting a comment, a visitor becomes a member, The only benefit or effect<br \/>\n  of being a member is the ability to  request to be notified by email whenever<br \/>\n  there is a new post to the blog.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8212; <strong>Visitors<\/strong> : Anyone and everyone who visits the site is a<br \/>\n  visitor, and can read the articles and comments<\/p>\n<p>  If you are a member or a visitor and want to post an article or an announcement<br \/>\n    but don&#8217;t want to become a Contributing Editor, just <a href=\"mailto:mfeldman_75@post.harvard.edu\">send<br \/>\n    me the material by email<\/a> ( mfeldman_75@post.harvard.edu ) and I will<br \/>\n    post it for you. Putting DOWBRIGADE POST in the subject line will bring it<br \/>\n    to my immediate attention.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"feldman\"><\/a><strong>Who is this Michael Feldman Guy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am a Boston University Senior Lecturer teaching mostly foreign law and business<br \/>\n  students. I am married to a beautiful Ecuadorian economist and have two teenaged<br \/>\n  sons. I dabble in instructional design, graphic design, post-industrial shamanism<br \/>\n  and certain arcane rituals whose roots reach to the misty dawn of history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"editorial\"><\/a><strong>Dowbrigade Editorial Policy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As far as possible, there is no editorial policy, other than to ban insulting,<br \/>\n  degrading or just plain mean comments. Obscenity will be judged on a case by<br \/>\n  case basis, taking into consideration originality and redeeming social value.<\/p>\n<p>  The essence of the Blog ethos, if such exists, is tolerance and diversity of<br \/>\nopinion. <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"dowbrigade\"><\/a><strong>What is the Dowbrigade?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Dowbrigade is a loose network of teachers and researchers, most of whom<br \/>\n  worked in the Harvard Program in English as a Second Language during the 80&#8217;s<br \/>\n  and 90&#8217;s, under the inspirational leadership of Anne Dow.&nbsp; However, since<br \/>\n  the Dowbrigade News was created and announced to the approximately 100 members<br \/>\n  of the extended Harvard ESL family and veterans who form the Dowbrigade, aside<br \/>\n  from two initial pro forma &quot;right ons&quot; (one, much appreciated, from Anne herself),<br \/>\n  the<br \/>\n  grand<br \/>\n  total<br \/>\n  of contributions from the multitude has been ZERO.&nbsp; Accordingly, although<br \/>\n  I will always hold the original Dowbrigade group near and dear to my heart,<br \/>\n  not least because they served as the inspiration and impetus to get this Blog<br \/>\n  off the ground, at this point it would seem prudent to officially divorce the<br \/>\n  moribund ESL support group from the seemingly thriving general interest Blog.<\/p>\n<p>The Dowbrigade News will continue to cover stories dealing with Education<br \/>\n  in general, and especially Educational Technology and ESL, since these are<br \/>\n  my areas of professional interest, as well as Law, Culture and general weirdness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"member\"><\/a><strong>Where does all this stuff come from?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The stuff that doesn&#8217;t come from inside my own head comes mostly from<br \/>\n    trolling my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/aggregator\/\">News<br \/>\n    Aggregator<\/a>.&nbsp;Need I repeat that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/18#a680\">I<br \/>\n    LOVE MY NEWS AGGREGATOR<\/a>.<br \/>\n    In addition, I visit a number of obscure web sites friends, students and<br \/>\n    colleagues have turned me on to and which for some inexplicable reason don&#8217;t<br \/>\n    have their RSS feeds up and running yet.<\/p>\n<p><a name=\"copyright\"><\/a><strong>Aren&#8217;t you worried about Copyright violations?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/12#a607\">No<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dowbrigade&#8217;s Frequently Asked Questions &nbsp; What is a Blog? 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