
251 - BLOG TRANSPARENTLY
HaCK
# 102
HaCK 102:
Indicate changes in your blog post and credit sources to help
maintain an effective conversation around your blog.
Many consider it good blogging style to tell your readers when you make substantial changes
after an article of yours went live for some time. This helps keep the conversation transparent. For
instance, imagine that someone comments on your article, and then you change it—the comment
may now appear odd because the part of your post that it referred to has since changed. The rule
of “keeping it transparent” is especially applicable to news blogs, less so for diary-style blogs or
ction blogs.
There are some ways to nd out about changes made to a blog post even if the changes aren’t disclosed
.
A common indicator for changed text is to use a strikethrough on text you replaced. To try this, log in
to Blogger.com and when editing your post, switch to the Edit HTML tab, as shown in Figure 10-22.
Let’s say that you wrote that George Washington was the second U.S. president, but you’ve now
realized that he was the rst. Use the del (deletion) and ins (insert) tags, as shown in bold:
According to Wikipedia, George Washington was a central figure in the founding of the United
States of America, and also the nation's <del>second</del> <ins>first</ins> president.
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