TECH STUFF

Ok. Gedney, in response to your post about putting articles on the blog, I think it's best to just leave the a link in an entry and we can all have easy access that way.

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Second, I found a relatively easy way to share songs. The steps:

1. Go to www.sendspace.com

2. Follow the instructions. They are relatively simple, and I hope that as a group we are at least tech savvy enough to figure this one out. (I considered using an emoticon here but didn't. I am pleased with myself)

3. Once the file has finished uploading, you'll get a dowload link on the page as well as one at whatever email you entered on the first screen. You can share that link with us in a blog entry and that way it will remain archived as well.

4. This website can be used for single songs, but it can also accommodate much larger files (up to 100 MB, I think). If you have a lot of music to share, you can create a zip file and upload the zip to share.

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Lastly, let's start making judicious use of blog tags, shall we? When you go to the new post window, in the lower right-hand corner of the place where you type there is a small area to enter tags for the post.

For example, I tagged this post "tech", which will make it easier for us to find any tech related posts more quickly in the future.

We can start doing this with all our posts. For example, if you're posting text, tag the entry "text" and then also maybe with specific authors, like "Beckett" or "Rumi". That way, we can easily access all of the posts relating to certain authors or containing certain pieces of text.

Also let's tag any entries about events or concerts "events", and so forth.

Hopefully all this shiz will help us start building an easily navigable (is that a word?) library of texts and sources from which to draw on.