Back Talk FAQs
Hello
Welcome to Back Talk, the Advocate magazine blogs. We do five blogs — one for each of our neighborhoods, where we discuss local issues, talk about city and state politics, post wine and restaurant reviews, our thoughts on weather and traffic, and pretty much anything else that interests the people who live here. If it’s local, it’s on Back Talk.
Subscribe
You probably found the blog by going through our website — please bookmark it and visit often. You can also subscribe, through either an RSS feed or via email. With the latter, you’ll get an e-mail once a day with the posts. You can subscribe either way through the links on the main blog page.
Comments
After you read a post, you might feel compelled to add your opinion. In fact, we want your opinion. Just click the blue link that says comment, and a new screen will come up. You’ll be asked for your name and e-mail address (we don’t publish the latter, but use them to keep track of comments). Fill out the blanks — a nickname is OK, then type your comment. Hit post, and you’re set.
Please keep our comment guidelines in mind – which we pretty much learned in kindergarten:
1. No name-calling.
2. Feel free to disagree, but please respect the other person’s opinion. If you want to rant, there are plenty of other blogs for that.
3. Watch your language. Or, in the words of one of our more prolific posters: Don’t use any of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words.
4. There’s nothing wrong with agreeing to disagree.
Other features
1. You can email, print or save links for each post. Those are the icons at the bottom of each post. Click on the icon that you want, and follow the directions.
2. Digg a post by clicking icon (it’s a man with a shovel) that is under each post. Digg is a service that allows you to share the post with people around the world. That way, people can see what’s happening here. The more Diggs a story gets, the more it gets read on the service. (You need to join Digg to use the service, but it’s free and simple to do.)
3. Make this blog a Technorati favorite. Technorati does for blogging what the Nielsens do for television – measures the audience. When you make this blog a favorite by clicking the button on the lower right hand side of the front blog page, you’re telling Technorati that you pay attention to what goes on here. Which, frankly, is a good for us. (You need to join Technorati to use the service, but it’s free and simple to do.)
Questions? Comments?
We genuinely want to hear them. Send us an e-mail.
Welcome to Back Talk, the Advocate magazine blogs. We do five blogs — one for each of our neighborhoods, where we discuss local issues, talk about city and state politics, post wine and restaurant reviews, our thoughts on weather and traffic, and pretty much anything else that interests the people who live here. If it’s local, it’s on Back Talk.
Subscribe
You probably found the blog by going through our website — please bookmark it and visit often. You can also subscribe, through either an RSS feed or via email. With the latter, you’ll get an e-mail once a day with the posts. You can subscribe either way through the links on the main blog page.
Comments
After you read a post, you might feel compelled to add your opinion. In fact, we want your opinion. Just click the blue link that says comment, and a new screen will come up. You’ll be asked for your name and e-mail address (we don’t publish the latter, but use them to keep track of comments). Fill out the blanks — a nickname is OK, then type your comment. Hit post, and you’re set.
Please keep our comment guidelines in mind – which we pretty much learned in kindergarten:
1. No name-calling.
2. Feel free to disagree, but please respect the other person’s opinion. If you want to rant, there are plenty of other blogs for that.
3. Watch your language. Or, in the words of one of our more prolific posters: Don’t use any of George Carlin's Seven Dirty Words.
4. There’s nothing wrong with agreeing to disagree.
Other features
1. You can email, print or save links for each post. Those are the icons at the bottom of each post. Click on the icon that you want, and follow the directions.
2. Digg a post by clicking icon (it’s a man with a shovel) that is under each post. Digg is a service that allows you to share the post with people around the world. That way, people can see what’s happening here. The more Diggs a story gets, the more it gets read on the service. (You need to join Digg to use the service, but it’s free and simple to do.)
3. Make this blog a Technorati favorite. Technorati does for blogging what the Nielsens do for television – measures the audience. When you make this blog a favorite by clicking the button on the lower right hand side of the front blog page, you’re telling Technorati that you pay attention to what goes on here. Which, frankly, is a good for us. (You need to join Technorati to use the service, but it’s free and simple to do.)
Questions? Comments?
We genuinely want to hear them. Send us an e-mail.
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