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Here's a screen shot of the comment login page. Please notice the circled link. If you choose that link, you'll be able to post your comment without having to create an account at Blogger.

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Some time back, when I changed the template on this blog, some of you reported that you had to create an account and sign in to Blogger in order to post a comment. I wrote the Support group and asked why, if I had set my blog to permit anyone to leave a comment, would it be necessary for people to do that. I never received a reply to that question.

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At my urging, my friend, Shannon Kamer, created a new blog yesterday. 

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Here's a link to some facts about the relationship between blogging and «real» journalists. Worth a look, if you are interested.

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I'm making this post to illustrate for my friend, Shannon, how blogger's interface works.  For instance, if I want to create a link, I just choose the word, highlight it, and click on the icon for inserting the URL, and the link becomes active.

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This week is a good time to sample some other blogs, if you've never done that before, because for the first time ever a number of bloggers (35?) have been given press credentials to the Democratic National Convention in Boston. See this article in the New York Times on the subject. Whether you are a Democrat, a Republican or an Independent, and whether or not you have any interest in what is happening at the DNC, I think you'll find this diversity of approach to blogging interesting. Or at least I do, so I thought I'd share the idea with you.

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When I was in college in the early 1960's (yes, Virginia, I am that old!), the Evelyn Wood speed reading course was a popular fad. Until I looked for a link about it just now, I didn't even know the Evelyn Wood Reading Dynamics company was still in existence. This course has been mocked, such as in this quote from Woody Allen («I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.»), but it works and has helped a lot of people learn to increase their reading speed and their comprehension.

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When I changed my template for this blog recently, some of you indicated that the typeface was a bit small for your aging eyes. Well, I feel your pain because my aging eyes suffer from the same limitation.

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Yesterday afternoon, our Operations Manager called us all together to announce that BellSouth, who last month announced that they were giving their customer service business to our competitor -- TAG, had also decided to give their Tech Support business to them.  This is again an example of their taking the lower bidder for the business. 

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In this article in Wired News Cool Ways to Give IE the Boot, the author says: «Wymea Bay's iRider has an especially broad offering of features -- so many that you really do need to watch an online movie to understand how to best use the application. Despite my preference for streamlined applications, iRider really impressed me -- the application isn't loaded with useless bells and whistles, and almost every feature makes perfect sense.»

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