[OWW-Discuss] Blog

[Torsten Waldminghaus]

Hey all,
 
I wanted to start a little blog and experienced some difficulties I want
to share. I guess I'm a good test person since it's my first time
blogging and I actually learned what a blog is only some weeks ago. So I
understood that there is no or only a well hidden "blog-help-page",
right? That is probably cause it's still the testing phase of blogs on
OWW? Anyway on the top of the OWW blog page it says "If you'd like to
start blogging with us, please email admin at openwetware.org
<mailto:admin at openwetware.org> .". I thought this is what I wanted to do
and sent an mail. The answer I got was:
 
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<http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/oww-admin>
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This supprised me since I am member of OWW with the e-mail address I
used. I followed the link and was invited to some mailing-list. Since I
did just want to blog I do not understand what this list should be for.
So I tried another way to start a blog by getting to the blog site
"Share Your Science <http://blog.openwetware.org/shareyourscience> "
where the Hello World text suggests that I should enter a post or delete
and other stuff. So I tried to log in but I could not use my OWW
username and password. Than I was at the end with my ideas, crying and
thinking if this might be a sign that nobody actually wants a blog by
somebody like me. 

Than I remembered that I could ask the OWW-discussion folks and give
some feedback. That's it.

Torsten

 

 

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