Wednesday, January 30, 2008

2008 WELCOME to the BLOG Message!

A BLOG for Carmel-by-the-Sea...The Carmel-by-the-Sea WATCHDOG!...It’s Your BLOG!

With the New Year, it is an opportune time to WELCOME all of you, particularly new readers and commenters, to The Carmel-by-the-Sea WATCHDOG!, a Blog for Carmel-by-the-Sea.

A blog (a portmanteau of web log) is a website with several characteristics;

Reverse Chronology: Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order.

Unfiltered Content: Posts & Comments are unedited.

Comments: Anyone can post a Comment to any Post at any time as Anonymous, Nickname or Blogger.

Hypertext Links: Highlighted text in the Post, when clicked on go to other websites.

Informal Attitude: Unique style and tone of the Bloggers and Commenters.

Appropriated Text: Excerpts of attributed text from other sources.

MISSION of The Carmel-by-the-Sea WATCHDOG!
“Ascertaining the Truth Amid All the Propaganda”

PURPOSE of The Carmel-by-the-Sea WATCHDOG!
Empower Carmelites by providing information and commentary on issues and events in Carmel-by-the-Sea through the use of text, photos and links to other websites. And, most importantly, provide a Forum for interested individuals to post their own Comments about a Post or anything of interest to them.

FORMAT:
The Carmel-by-the-Sea WATCHDOG! is organized, as follows:
Date (Day, Month, Day, Year) at Top
Title of Post
Abstract
Body of Post
Posted by VillageinForest at Time (Hour, Minutes) 0 comments Links to this post
Labels: Name of Label

Notes:
Labels for all Posts appear in a Column on the right side
Seven Posts per Screen page

HISTORY:
The Carmel-by-the-Sea WATCHDOG began in March 2006; the first Post was the 2005 Monterey County Civil Grand Jury Report on Open Government. The impetus for the Blog was the desire to provide a Forum where computer savvy individuals could share their ideas, thoughts and concerns about our village. Since then, 698 Posts on issues and events pertaining to Carmel-by-the-Sea have been published on the Blog and numerous Comments by Bloggers have been entered on the Blog.

On COMMENTS:
At the end of each Post is a link “Comments;” just click on this link and a box will appear where you can type your comments, then select Blogger, Nickname or Anonymous, and Preview or Publish Comment.

Bloggers can see other Blogger’s Comments by clicking “Comments” on any Post at any time. These Comments are the heart and soul of The Carmel-by-the-Sea WATCHDOG! Please read them, they are the best!

NOTE:
Please email SebViz2@sbcglobal.net if you have any questions about the Blog or would like Posts emailed to you every time a Post is published on The Carmel-by-the-Sea WATCHDOG! Otherwise, Bloggers can access the Blog anytime @ http://villageinforest.blogspot.com/

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Your description of the blog is really excellent. Hopefully, more and more people will access this site and learn about all of the happenings that are omitted from the MSM coverage. And people who know about this blog should tell others so they have an opportunity to comment on the blog content and items of interest to them. All for the greater good of Carmel, instead of the advancement of one person's or one group's political fortunes.

Anonymous said...

Dittos to the previous comment! Maybe the challengers to the current Carmel administration will use this venue to get their message out. It sure doesn't seem like the local print media is giving them much (any?) press. Keep up the good work of informing the locals.

Allaire said...

Great work! Thank you!