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Blogs are reshaping the Web, im-pacting politics, shaking upjournalism, and enabling mil-

lions of people to have a voice andconnect with others.

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A blog is an easy-to-use Web site,where you can quickly post yourthoughts, interact with people, andmore.

A blog is a personal diary. A daily pul-pit. A collaborative space. A politicalsoapbox. A breaking-news outlet. Acollection of links. Your own privatethoughts. Memos to the world.

Your blog is whatever you want it tobe. There are millions of them, in allshapes and sizes, and there are no realrules.

In simple terms, a blog is a Web site,where you write stuff on an ongoingbasis. New stuff shows up at the top,so your visitors can read what’s new.Then they comment on it, or link toit, or e-mail you, or not.

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As Rebecca Blood said in “The WeblogHandbook”, “There are as many kindsof blogs as there are kinds of people, butthere are only three motivations for keep-ing one: information sharing, reputationbuilding, and personal expression. Andthough any one of these may be the pri-mary reason for a blog, no one maintainsa blog for any length of time withouteventually doing all three.”

The blogging experience is about notonly putting your thoughts onto theWeb, but hearing back from and con-necting with, other like-mindedpeople. Comments enable readers ofyour Web site from all over the world,to provide feedback on what youshare on your blog. You can choosewhether or not to allow users to leavecomments on a post-by-post basis(and you can delete anything youdon’t like). You have more power overyour publishing efforts than RupertMurdoch or Kerry Packer!

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Anyone with access to an Internetbrowser and e-mail address can havetheir own blog for free. If you can usea browser and fill in online forms, thenyou can operate your own blog. Youdon’t have to learn HTML. You don’thave to learn how to design, code,build and manage a Web site. You justneed to have some information and/or thoughts that you would like toshare with others.

There are numerous free blog man-agement and hosting optionsavailable on the Internet. Many haveextremely easy to use browser inter-faces. The one I use and recommend isBlogger, at <http://www.blogger.com>.

Blogger was started by Pyra Labs inAugust of 1999. In February 2003,Pyra Labs was acquired by Google. Sothere is a fair chance that Blogger willbe around for quite some time. In-deed, Blogger has gone ahead in leapsand bounds since getting the re-sources of Google behind it.

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If you have an account with anInternet Service Provider (ISP) such asMelb PC, chances are that you alreadyhave, or have rights to, some Webhosting space, and all of the resourcesyou need to setup your own Web siteand/or blog. However, most peopledon’t utilise these resources and don’tset up either a Web site and/or a blogbecause of the learning curve theyfear is involved.

There is a fair bit to learn if you dowant to build your own Web site inany of the traditional ways. But thereis almost nothing to learn if you wantjust a blog, or are prepared to use ablog as your Web site home page, asthousands of people do.

Even if you don’t have Web site spaceavailable from your ISP, there are manyproviders like Blogger who have anoption where they will host your blogfor you. So now you have no excusenot to get started.

Your first step is to simply decide thatyou want to have a blog, and thenpoint your browser to <http://www.blogger.com>.

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Relatively few subscribers to MelbPC’s Internet Services have createdtheir own Web site and home page.And then only a small handful of thosemembers have established a blog.

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Well the rest of this article is a sim-ple, step-by-step guide to setting upyour own blog on the Melb PCInternet Service using Blogger.

The only real decision you have tomake is to choose between:

1. Having your blog as your homepage, or

2. Having your blog as a separateWeb page within your existingMelb PC Web space.

If you don’t already have a Web sitehosted by Melb PC, and are neverlikely to do so, then you shouldchoose option 1.

If you already have a home page andWeb site hosted by Melb PC, and youwant to keep it, then choose option2. If you want to switch to runningyour Web site in a much easier man-ner, choose option 1.

If you are with some other ISP thatalso provides some Web space, thenyou can still follow this step-by-stepguide. However, you’ll need to makea few changes along the way. Don’tworry, I’ll refer to them.

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You’ll need to know your Melb PCInternet Service username and pass-word. That’s it!

You need to know whether or notyour Web space on the Melb PCInternet Service has already been setup for you. If not, you should go tothe “Melb PC Internet Service Mes-sage Of The Day” page at <http://hww.melbpc.org.au/motd/>, and se-lect the “Web Page Registration” optionin the list of useful links on the righthand side of the page. This shouldtake you to the “Melb PC MembersWeb Page Registration” page whereyou can register to have Web pagespace.

If you have already done this, then youare ready to proceed.

(Those of you with a different ISP willneed some additional information.Please read through the rest of theseinstructions and take note of whatyou’ll need to find out. Then ask yourISP.)

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The rest of this article is a step-by-step guide to the process of settingup a Blogger Advanced Blog. Thestandard Blogger setup process leavesyou with Blogger hosting your blog,and then some blog facilities are notavailable to you.

Melb PC Internet Service users, orthose of you with Web space providedby another ISP, are better served by theAdvanced Blog option from Blogger.With an Advanced Blog, Blogger main-tains a database of everything in yourblog, and it publishes the static HTMLpages and site feed file that the worldcan use to read your blog, into yourown existing Web space.

The Advanced Blog setup process re-quires a few steps more than does thestandard blog setup. Even then youare left with a functional blog, butwithout some nice features activated.

In the rest of this article, I provide easysetup instructions and explanations,which if followed correctly in the or-der given, will leave you with a blogand/or home page fully functioningwith the features I believe most of youwould desire to have in place. Even ifBlogger was to change aspects of thesetup process sometime in the future,reading through these instructionsand understanding them should helpyou to easily set up your own Bloggerbased blog.

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Connect to the Internet and pointyour browser at <http://www.blogger.com>. You should soon seethe Blogger Home Page displayed. SeeFigure 1.

As you see, Blogger promotes the factthat you can create your own blog injust three easy steps — and so youcan — but to set up a more functionalblog on the Melb PC Internet Service

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requires the Advanced Blog Setupprocess which takes a few more steps.Hence I decided to write this step-by-step guide for you.

Click on the “Create Your Blog Now”option.

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You should now see the “Create anaccount” page. See Figure 2.

Take your time and fill in the details.

For “Choose a user name:”, I recommendyou use your Melb PC username, eg.“lborrett”, if it’s available on Blogger.

For “Enter a password:”, I recommendyou use your Melb PC password. Thenit’s one less different password for youto remember.

For “Display name:”, just type in yourown name, eg. “Lloyd Borrett”.

For “E-mail address:”, enter yourMelb PC e-mail address, eg.”lborrett@melbpc.org.au”, or someother e-mail address that you prefer.

Accept the terms.

Click on the big “Continue” button atthe bottom of the page.

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The “Name your blog” page shouldnow be displayed. See Figure 3.

If you are going to host your blog viaMelb PC or another ISP, ignore thedetails at the top of the page and justclick on the “Advanced Blog Setup” linkin the Advanced Setup section.

If you want Blogger to host your blog,then fill in the details at the top ofthis page, and click on “Continue”.

The rest of these instructions are forthose who choose “Advanced BlogSetup”. However, parts of these instruc-tions may also be useful to those whochoose the Blogger hosting option.

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The “Advanced Blog Setup” pageshould now be displayed. See Figure 4.

First fill in the Blog Details section.

Enter a suitable ”Blog title” for yourblog, eg. “Lloyd’s Melb PC Blog”.

You can choose to have your bloglisted or unlisted. I recommend select-ing “Listed”.

Now fill in the Server Details section.

For those hosting their blog viaMelb PC, the “FTP Server” name is“member.melbpc.org.au”. If you are us-ing another ISP, then you will need tofind out their FTP server name.

For “Protocol”, select “FTP”.

Leave the “FTP path” blank.

If you want your blog to be yourMelb PC home page, then for the “Blogfilename” enter “index.html”. If you al-ready have a home page and wantyour blog to be a separate page asI did, then enter a new uniquefilename, eg. “blogger.html”. If you areusing another ISP, and want your blogto be your home page, then you’regoing to have to find out from yourISP what their default home pagefilename is.

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Click on the “Continue” button at thebottom of the page.

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You should now see the “Choose aTemplate” page. See Figure 5a.

Take all of the time you want to de-cide on the template that best reflectsyour personality, then select a tem-plate. For the purpose of this article,I have chosen the default “Minima”template by Douglas Bowman.

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Then scroll down to the bottom of thepage and click on the “Continue” but-ton.

Blogger displays a page that animateswhile creating your blog. See Figure5b, Creating Your Blog.

If everything has gone okay, youshould then see the “Your blog hasbeen created!” page. See Figure 5c.

Click on the “Start Posting” button.

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You should now see the “Create NewPost” page. See Figure 6a.

You could now just create your firstpost and go for it. However, I recom-mend you first step through the “Settings”options with me to fine tune a fewthings and make your blog more useful.

Click on the “Settings” tab near the topof the page.

You should now see the “Settings —Basic” page. See Figure 6b.

Want to change your blog ”Title”? Thisis where you do it.

If you want to, type in a short ”De-scription” of your blog.

I recommend selecting “Yes” for the“Add your blog to our listings?” option.It’s one of the best ways to get thefact that your blog exists known tothe rest of the world.

Now, click on the “Save Settings” but-ton. The page will refresh and youshould be told that “Settings WereSaved Successfully”.

Next, click on the “Publishing” tab.

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You should now see the Blogger “Set-tings Publishing” page displayed. SeeFigure 7.

The “FTP Server”, “Blog URL”, “FTPPath” and “Blog Filename” values

should be already set using the valesyou gave in Step 4.

Scroll down to the bottom of thepage.

For the ”FTP username:” option, enteryour Melb PC Internet serviceusername, eg. “lborrett”.

For the ”FTP password:” option, enteryour Melb PC Internet service pass-word.

Providing these values here givesBlogger the information needed tologon to the Melb PC Internet serverand update your blog when necessary.If you choose to not enter these de-tails here, then you will be asked byBlogger for them every time you up-date your blog. If you don’t providethese details you won’t be able to postto your blog via e-mail.

For the ”Ping Weblogs.com:” option,select “Yes”. Blogger will then pingWeblogs.com, <http://www.weblogs.com>, when you update your blog.Then Weblogs.com can tell the worldthat your blog has been updated.

Click on the “Save Settings” button.The page will refresh and you shouldbe told that “Settings Were Saved Suc-cessfully”.

Next, click on the “Formatting” tab atthe top of the Web page.

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You should now see the Blogger “Set-tings Formatting” page. See Figure 8.

You can do as you like on this page.

If you are planning to post entries toyour blog frequently, you mightchoose to stay with the default valueof “7 days” for ”Show”. Otherwise,maybe increase it to a value of say 30days, or 10 posts.

I recommend changing the followingsettings:Change ”Time Zone” to “[GMT 10] Aus-tralia/Melbourne”.

Change ”Date Language” to “English(Australia)”.

Change ”Show Link Field” to “Yes”.

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Then click on the “Save Settings” but-ton. The page will refresh and youshould be told that “Settings WereSaved Successfully”.

Next, click on the “Comments” tab atthe top of the Web page.

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The Blogger “Settings Comments”page should now be displayed. SeeFigure 9.

You can choose to enable your blogreaders to be able to leave comments,or not.

I recommend you leave the defaultsetting for ”Comments”, ie. ”Show”.

For ”Who Can Comment?”, I’m happyfor ”Anyone” to be able to leave com-ments on my blog. It is a facility thatis rarely abused by others.

For “Default for Posts” I recommend”New Posts Have Comments”. You canchose to allow or disallow commentsas you create each post to your blog.This setting is just used to specify thedefault action.

The main thing to do on this page isto fill in your e-mail address so thatyou are notified when comments areposted. Enter your e-mail address asthe ”Comment Notification Address”,e.g. ”lborrett@melbpc.org.au”.

Then click on the “Save Settings” but-ton. The page will refresh and youshould be told that “Settings WereSaved Successfully”.

Next, click on the “Archiving” tab atthe top of the Web page.

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The Blogger “Settings Archiving” pageshould now be displayed. See Figure 10.

I recommend the following settings.

For ”Archive Frequency”, select”Monthly”.

For ”Enable Post Pages”, select ”Yes”.

Leave both the ”Archive Path” and ”Ar-chive URL” blank.

For the ”Archive Filename”, entering“achive.html” should be just fine.

Then at the end of each archive fre-quency period (eg. month), Bloggerwill create a new file of the form“2004_07_archive.htm” in the maindirectory of your Web site, and repub-lish all of your blog with links to thenew archive file added. You could cre-ate a subdirectory on your Web siteto put these files in. That’s whatthe”Archive Path” and ”Archive URL”settings are for. But I recommend youkeep it simple, especially if your blogis going to be your home page.

When you’ve made your changes,click on the “Save Settings” button.The page will refresh and you shouldbe told that “Settings Were Saved Suc-cessfully”.

Next, click on the “Site Feed” tab atthe top of the Web page.

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The Blogger “Settings Site Feed” pageshould now be displayed. See Figure 11.

Blogger can publish an Atom site feedevery time your blog is updated. Thissyndicated content feed is an XML for-mat file that can then be accessed byother Web sites, or used by users togive them automated access to yourblog contents via a feed reader and/or aggregator.

You may have noticed RSS buttonsappearing on many Web sites in re-cent times. These are links to thesites’ RSS format site feeds. Atom is anew format for syndicating contentthat is intended to replace RSS, whichBlogger has chosen to support. Seethe knowledge base and help infor-mation on the Blogger Web site, orthe Atom Enabled Web site, <http://www.atomenabled.org>, for moredetails.

On my personal Web site at <http://www.borrett.id.au>, I use the”SmartFeed” service from FeedBurner,<http://www.feedburner.com>, tomake my Atom site feed from Blogger

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available automatically in all of themajor content syndication formats.But setting that up is something Idon’t intend to go into here. Let’skeep this simple. But know it can bedone.

If you haven’t yet started to use a feedreader/aggregator, then I recommendyou try the free “Personal Edition” of“Awasu”, which can be downloadedfrom <http://www.awasu.com>.Awasu is a free Windows-based news-reader. It can be setup to run in thebackground on your computer andmonitor the Web site feeds you haveasked it to, while you are connectedto the Internet. Or you can just run itwhen you so choose like any otherprogram, and ask it to search for up-dated feed content, just as you wouldtell your e-mail program to go get newe-mail. Awasu will keep track of whatyou have already read, which savesyou even more time since you nolonger need to search through yourfavourite sites for new stories.

Awasu is a Melbourne based company,so if you like the free version and thinkyou would enjoy the additional fea-tures of the “Advanced Edition”, paythe US$25 to buy it and thus help tosupport local developers.

It’s a really cool thing to have a sitefeed these days, and if you follow therest of the instructions in this step youwill have one. (See, not only is thiswhole process simple, it’s leadingedge as well!)

For ”Publish Site Feed”, select ”Yes”.

For ”Descriptions”, I recommend youselect ”Full”.

You only need to specify the ”Site FeedPath” if you want to put the site feedfile into a different subdirectory onyou Web site. I recommend you leaveit blank.

For the ”Site Feed Filename”, leaving itas ”atom.xml” is recommended.

For Melb PC Internet Service users the”Site Feed URL” should be changed to

take the form “http://member.melbpc.org.au/~<���� �������>/<�������� �������>”, e.g. ”http://member.melbpc.org.au/~lborrett/atom.xml”. Ifyou are with a different ISP, figure itout!

When you’ve made your changes,click on the “Save Settings” button.The page will refresh and you shouldbe told that “Settings Were Saved Suc-cessfully”.

Next, click on the “Email” tab at thetop of the Web page.

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The Blogger “Settings Email” pageshould now be displayed. See Figure 12.

I like to have Blogger send me ane-mail of each post when it is pub-lished. I then save them in my e-mailprogram as a backup should Bloggerever lose my information. You can’thave too many precautions andbackup processes in place!

Enter your e-mail address asthe ”BlogSend Address”, eg.”lborrett@melbpc.org.au”.

Blogger also supports you posting toyour blog via e-mail. If you enter avalue for the ”Mail-to-Blogger Address”,you enable this feature. The totale-mail address, e.g.”lborrett.123564@blogger.com” be-comes the e-mail address you use todo the blog posting. You should keepthis e-mail address very secure, as any-one with it can post to your blog.

When you’ve made your changes,click on the “Save Settings” button.The page will refresh and you shouldbe told that “Settings Were Saved Suc-cessfully”.

The Members settings section can beused to set up members to a closedblog. But that’s not what we’re inter-ested in doing here, so we will skipthat. Click on the “Back to Dashboard” op-

tion at the very top of the “SettingsEmail” page.

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The Blogger “Dashboard” page shouldnow be displayed. See Figure 13a.

Click on the “Edit Profile” option nearthe top of the right column.

The Blogger “Edit User Profile” pageshould now be displayed. See Figure13b.

Now select the required Privacy set-tings for your user profile.

I recommend selecting all three. Thatis, ”Share my profile”, ”Share my realname” and ”Share my e-mail address”.

In the Identity section, enter your”First Name” and ”Last Name” values.

You can add a photograph of yourselfto your profile in two ways. If you havea photograph of yourself stored some-where on the Web, eg. on yourexisting Web space, you can enter alink to it in the Photograph sectionto add it to your profile., eg. ”http://www.borrett.id.au/images/about/lrb-2002.jpg”. Or, you can try the freephoto hosting option offered byBlogger.

In the General section, specify your”Gender” and ”Birthday”. Bloggerdoesn’t actually display your birthdayto anyone. They simply use it to showyour astrological sign and the Chineseanimal of your birth year. The birth-day format required is Month / Day /Year. It isn’t specified and the exam-ple on the page is ambiguous.

For the ”Home Page URL” value, thoseof you with an existing home page

should enter it here. Or if your blogis about to become your homepage, enter that URL, eg. ”http://member.melbpc.org.au/~lborrett/index.html”.

If you have an instant messaging ad-dress, feel free to enter it.

Fill in the Location, Work andExtended Info sections as you sochoose.

Scroll down to the bottom of the pageand click on the ”Save Profile” button.The page will refresh and you shouldbe told that “Your Settings Have BeenSaved”.

Click on the ”Back To: Dashboard” linkat the top left of the page.

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The Blogger “Dashboard” page shouldnow be displayed. See Figure 13a.

Congratulations, your blog shouldnow be setup and ready to roll. Thetime has come to publish your firstpost and find out if everything is okay.Exciting, isn’t it? Remember, the fol-lowing steps are all you need to doto add a post to you blog in the fu-ture. This is how easy the ongoingpublishing of your blog will be.

From the “Dashboard” page, click onyour blog name in the list of Blogs,eg. ”Lloyd’s Melb PC Blog”.

The Blogger “Manage Posts” pageshould now be displayed.

Click on the ”Create a new post” but-ton.

The Blogger “Create New Post” pageshould now be displayed. See Figure14a.

Enter a ”Title” for your post, eg. ”MyFirst Post”.

Enter some content for your post, eg.”Here we go with the first post.”. Crea-tive, aren’t I?

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You could preview the post, save it asa draft, or play with more post op-tions. But let’s save that for anothertime.

Now is the time to bite the bullet andreally see if everything is setup prop-erly.

Click on the ”Publish Post” button.

If you didn’t specify your FTP Serverusername and password sign in de-tails back in Step 7, Blogger will askfor them here. Just enter them andclick on the ”Login” button. MicrosoftWindows may give you an“AutoComplete” dialogue box. I sug-gest you answer “Yes”.

Blogger will now display its “Publish-ing is in progress” page. See Figure14b.

If something goes wrong, Blogger willdisplay a “Publishing failed” page. Justgo back though each of the steps inthis article, checking everything care-fully as you go, and then try again.

But if everything worked okay, as itshould, Blogger will display the “Yourblog published successfully” page.See Figure 14c.

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Eureka! Your blog is now a happen-ing thing!

If you click on the ”View Details” op-tion, you will see the names of thefour files that Blogger transferred tocreate your blog. One file each for theblog page, the first archive page, thepage for the first post, plus the Atomsite feed file. But enough of the tech-nical details.

Click on ”View Blog” to see your newblog or home page. See Figure 15.

Pretty, isn’t it? See how easy that was.You can now run your own blog orhome page by simply getting onto theInternet, logging into Blogger and cre-ating, editing or deleting posts. Youcan even post an entry into your blog

via e-mail if you enabled that optionin Step 12.

If you chose to have Blogger send youan e-mail of your post in Step 12, thencheck to see that the message has ar-rived. If you enabled the post to yourblog using e-mail option in Step 12,then send an e-mail to that addressand see how your blog updates.

If you already have a Web site, now isthe time to add a link to your newblog somewhere on your Web pages.

To see the blog I created whilst writ-ing this article for you, check out<http://member.melbpc.org.au/~lborrett/blogger.html>.

To see my real blog, please feel freeto visit <http://www.borrett.id.au/in-sight/lrb-blog.htm>, or point yoursyndicated content reader, eg. Awasu,to <http://www.borrett.id.au/insight/lrb-blog-atom.xml>. As you can seefrom my real blog, there is much morethat you can do with Blogger shouldyou choose to do so. I have built myown template so that my blog fits inwith the rest of my Web site. Plus, Ihave added some additional features.

However, if you want to keep it sim-ple, then the heavy lifting is completeand from here on in it’s smooth sail-ing. I told you it was easy to setup ablog. It’s even easier to run it, so I’mnot going to even bother to cover thatin this article.

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Think of the powerful tool you nowhave at your disposal. You can easilypost to your blog from anywhere inthe world via the Web or e-mail.

But your blog is not a one-way street.Others that share your interests canleave comments about each post youmake. You can even give others theability to add posts to your blog.

Thus a blog is a far more powerfulcommunication and community build-ing tool that a simple Web site ofstatic pages. For example, if each of

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Melb PC membership, and the wholeworld. Plus with the site feeds avail-able, it would be simple for each ofus to stay in touch with the areas thatinterest us via our feed readers. TheMelb PC Web site could have an areawhere the interest group site feedsare aggregated, and everyone can eas-ily stay in touch with what is going

on. The possibilities are endless andyet so simple to put in place.

There is now no excuse for Melb PCInternet service users not to havetheir own blogs. So give it a go, andthen sit back and enjoy your new blogand/or home page!

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Lloyd Borrett, lloyd@borrett.id.au, isthe founder, inaugural president anda life member of Melb PC. Check outLloyd’s personal Web site at <http://www.borrett.id.au> for more infor-mation. �