This is a team blog

Can I have a blog to which more than one person posts? Yes, definitely! These are called "team blogs," and are quite useful in situations where small groups of people wish to contribute to a single blog. Basically, one person initially creates the blog, then "invites" others to join it.

Team members can either be Administrators or not. Administrators can edit all posts (not just their own), add and remove team members (and grant admin access), and modify blog properties. Non-admins can only post to the blog and add comments to other posts.

On this blog, non-team members can also add comments. Only team members can post though. If you accepted an invitation to blog here, you are a team member.

Team members also receive copies of all the posts and comments.

To learn more about there features, check out HELP:TEAMS.

Posts and Comments

You can start your own thread here. Posting allows you to create a new article on the front page of the blog. Only invited contributors can post here. To add a new post like this, you need to log on to the blog. Log on to Blogger BLOGGER DASHBOARD, select the .:. fuck decaf .:. blog, choose POST, and away you go. There's lot's of help there: HELP:BLOGGER

You can comment on an existing article or thread of comments too. This is easier. In fact anyone with internet access can a comment to any article. Just click the comment link, and follow the directions. Invite others you know to subscribe to the blog, and add their comments too.

Post photos and pictures. While those who know HTML can insert html code and img src links where they want, blogger offers an upload tool for everyone else. Click the little icon on blogger's create post interface to launch the upload window. There, you can enter the web URL or the path to a picture on your hard drive. Then save. This will add a bit of code to your post. HELP:PHOTOS If you decide to upload a picture, you'll need to do a bit of editting. Since the blog is hosted on the fuckdecaf.org server, the picture is uploaded there. You'll notice that in the img src code, the picture's path contains the domain name. You need to delete some code from inside the img src="" part (but leave the quotes where they are). Delete: "http://www.fuckdecaf.org/". Example:

Once you upload a pic, some code is added to the blog entry, which I'm sure you see there. You need to delete the domain name from the src string:

This is what blogger pastes in:

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) 
{}" href="http://www.fuckdecaf.org/uploaded_images/Lumber-Truck-703514.jpg">
<img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;"
src="http://www.fuckdecaf.org/uploaded_images/Lumber-Truck-701486.jpg"
alt="" border="0" /></a>

And you delete the stuff I show in red (always the same) as follows:

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) 
{}" href="http://www.fuckdecaf.org/uploaded_images/Lumber-Truck-703514.jpg">
<img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;"
src="http://www.fuckdecaf.org/uploaded_images/Lumber-Truck-701486.jpg"
alt="" border="0" /></a>

To leave:

<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) 
{}" href="http://www.fuckdecaf.org/uploaded_images/Lumber-Truck-703514.jpg">
<img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;"
src="uploaded_images/Lumber-Truck-701486.jpg"
alt="" border="0" /></a>

For some reason, because the graphic is hosted on the same machine as the blog, the full URL messes up! It needs to be a relative URL. Silly stuff. This is the only blog I host on my server, and is inelegantly supported. ;)

Posting with email

If you wish to email posts to the blog, let the site administrator know. There is a magic email address you can send posts to. Don't expect fancy formatting though. These posts usually take up to a day to show up on the blog. So, again, nothing life threatening or urgent should be posted this way. But if you're bumming around campus or bored in a meeting, you can send your post using your blackberry pretty darn easily. You need to request the magic address though - and don't share it with anyone!

That subscription thing

It looks like this:

.:.

We've added a feedblitz subscriber service here: HELP:FEEDBLITZ. Anyone can use it to receive posts and comments as they arrive on the blog. You can use it too if you want. Put your email address in the field, press the grey button, and register at bloglet! Manage your own blog subscription to multiple blogs and RSS or ATOM feeds this way. Simple easy.

RSS

If you know what this is, here's the URL: http://www.fuckdecaf.org/atom.xml . More info for the curious at: HELP:SYNDICATION

x-nymity and copyright

I await the privacy experts here to supply a terrific link for this site from the Creative Commons: HELP:COPYRIGHT. Until then, here's our default: Effectively, if you post it here, you are sharing copyrights with all other invited contributors. IOW, any of the contributors here can choose to publish the entire contents of this blog as contributed. You can. I can. Each of us could. Let's share, and let's be respectful of each other's contributions without the need for legal bludgeoning.

x-nymity means that you can choose how much or how little of your personal identity to expose. You may know other contributors here. You may not. The administrator knows each contributor at a minimum. The rest is entirely up to you.

Security

This site is not terribly secure, and relies currently on free public tools. The exception is the site server which is maintained by Integrity Incorporated.