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(vanity) Did Free Republic start as a blog?
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| Oct. 17th, 2010
| stillafreemind
Posted on 10/17/2010 8:22:55 AM PDT by stillafreemind
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To: stillafreemind
Free Republic started as a blog, correct? No.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:27:57 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
To: stillafreemind
Free Republic started as a blog, correct? Not that I'm aware of.
I certainly hope not!
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:28:16 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Pablo is very wily)
To: stillafreemind
FR was around long before the concepts of blogs.
As for yet another Barbara Billingsly posts- there have been so many in the past day, I wouldn’t be surprised if the PTBs here started moving them to blogs just to keep the news category clean for real news.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:30:16 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: humblegunner; stillafreemind
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:31:24 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
To: stillafreemind
Blogger articles need to be posted in the Bloggers Forum.
The same thing has happened to me. Don't take it personally.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:32:47 AM PDT
by
mojito
To: DJ MacWoW; stillafreemind
I just glanced over at this Associated Content- it looks to be just another overrated ‘open’ blog like the Examiner blogs where everyone can sign up- they just make their format look a little more professional than most blogs but it isn’t exactly a news source.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:33:46 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: DJ MacWoW
...also, Associated Content seems to be a pay-per-click blog like Examiner..
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:34:31 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: DJ MacWoW
Per the Associated Content site:
Browse the collective knowledge of 400,000 individual Contributors:
If they've got it set up so that any goofball and his drooling brother
Cletus can "contribute" I wouldn't think much of it as a source.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:35:34 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Pablo is very wily)
To: stillafreemind
No it did not start as a blog.
To: stillafreemind
FR was never a blog. It predated that concept.
To: mnehring; humblegunner
Thanks! I hadn’t paid much attention to it as I don’t go there.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:37:08 AM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
To: stillafreemind
To: humblegunner
It is like those ‘library of poetry’ vanity press publishers who can make anyone feel like they are an actual published authors when really, they reel in suckers to stroke their ego.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:38:58 AM PDT
by
mnehring
To: stillafreemind
Thw way I recall it back in those early days (ignore the signup date on this userid--I was here back in those early days, just not as Gondring), it was a listing of news sources and articles pulled from them, not too far off from the main postings of today. What I recall most of all was that I HATED "Frames" back then, and the site was done with frames. :-/
I don't recall it as being much of a "blog" (a term that wasn't around then), but more of a resource... While some blogs are news aggregation sites, not all news aggregation sites are blogs. FR was the latter, in my recollection.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:40:46 AM PDT
by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
To: rabidralph
To: mnehring
I’m picturing a blogpimp with a huge stable of bloggers,
and the pimp dresses in corporate attire instead of Burgundy silk.
Same biz, different marketing.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:44:38 AM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Pablo is very wily)
To: Gondring
More like a Bulletin Board gone wild ~ I do believe FR was the first such BB to go to assuming Windows was the OS for the reader/posters, and they began using Frames immediately.
Then came the lawsuits and it was just one thing after another ~ but never mind, the custom written software allows FR to handle more stuff with more users than is possible with anything else.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:56:16 AM PDT
by
muawiyah
("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
To: stillafreemind
it started as a “I hate Clinton” blog, I believe.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:58:01 AM PDT
by
brivette
To: stillafreemind
it started as a “I hate Clinton” blog, I believe.
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posted on
10/17/2010 8:58:17 AM PDT
by
brivette
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