Buckeye State Blog - Gate crashing for profit - Comments

crashing the party (Nader)

JeanLR — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:10:34 -0800

crashing the gates, crashing the party, crashing the bigtime bloggies~ whatever, keep crashing!! :-)

"The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep the waters pure." --Thomas Jefferson

How To Break Long Text

Paul — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 05:57:57 -0800

In Drupal, the way to break up long text is to put the following tag at the end of the text you wish to appear on the main page:

This will put in a "Read More" link in the story at the point of the tag.

Gotta run, but...

Renee in Ohio — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:31:27 -0800

Right now I need to take off for work, but I notice that this whole post appears in one piece. If there's a way to break it up so that there's just a couple paragraphs and then a "read more" link, someone with the keys to the front page is more than welcome to do that. Thanks.

Gate crashing for profit

Renee in Ohio — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:27:31 -0800

Updated to put in the break tag (described in comments) per Renee's request. --Paul

As I note in the disclaimer/description I recently added to my Blogroll Amnesty Day blog, I never was linked by blogs that took part in "Blogroll Amnesty Day". I never asked to be. I do remember reading what Markos had on his "so you want me to link to you" page, and it was stuff about what your blog needs in order to have "the right stuff" so that it was worthy of linkage. I found that offputting, so I never asked. I don't know if that was the first thing that rubbed me the wrong way about Markos, but it's something that stands out. I'm really inclined to stroke someone's ego, especially when that person already has way more people willing to do that job than I think is merited.

But while I was not willing to suck up and ask to be blogrolled, there were a lot of other people at that site that I enjoyed reading, and the sheer volume of the place allowed for a wide audience if you wanted to draw attention to a particular issue. So, in the wake of the 2004 election where there were plenty of "irregularities", and knowing that the man responsible for many of those irregularities would be running for governor of my state in 2006, damn right I wanted those irregularities fully investigated. I wanted Ken Blackwell himself fully investigated. Imprisoned? In an ideal world, sure. But I'd have been happy with a full investigation.