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Figure 6-5. Result of the “market” keyword search

Editing an Entry

To edit an entry, perform the following steps:

1. Scroll to the desired entry.

2. Click the Edit link shown below the entry title.

3. Look at the selected entry in the WYSIWYG editor. This is the same editor you used

while creating the entry.

4. Make any desired changes to the entry, such as formatting its contents, changing its

title, changing the timestamp, or adding tags.

5. Click the Save button to save your changes, which should be reflected in the Blogs

browser display.

Deleting an Entry

To delete an entry, perform the following actions:

1. Scroll to the desired entry.

2. Click the Delete link below the entry title.

3. Confirm whether you want to delete the entry. When you return to the browser display,

note that the entry has disappeared.

nNote When you delete an entry, all comments made on the entry will be deleted as well. (You’ll read

more about comments in the section “Posting Comments.”)

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Sharing an Entry

If you find a blog entry useful and you want to share it, you can choose from several sites that

let you do that. Links to many such sites appear below each blog entry in the browser display:

• BlinkList

• del.icio.us

• Digg

• Furl

• Newsvine

• reddit

• Technorati

You need to register on these sites in order to share your discoveries with other users of

the site. Once you share a blog entry on Technorati, for example, other Technorati members

will be able to view your recommendation. Such sharing is a good way to popularize a blog

entry.

These sites also crawl the Internet and create an index of various blog entries so that the

sites’ members can search the entire web for the indexed terms. This indexing, sometimes

used by the press, proves useful for collecting public opinion on a particular topic.

Rating an Entry

No doubt you’ll like some blog entries better than others. The Blogs application allows you to

give each entry a rating between one and five stars. Rating an entry is easy. Under the entry,

you will find five stars below the Your Rating label (see Figure 6-6).

Figure 6-6. Rating an entry

If you want to give a three-star rating to the current blog entry, click the third star. The first

three stars become red in color, and the Average stars change to reflect the average rating of all

the votes made on this article. Because this entry has only one vote, the average rating is the

same as your personal rating (three stars).

nTip Log on to the portal as some other user and locate the entry that you want to rate. Cast your vote,

assuming that you have the permission to do so. The Average rating displays the number of votes cast, and

the number of stars shown in red changes to reflect the new average of all the votes cast so far.

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Posting Comments

In addition to rating blog entries, you will also be able to post comments on them. To com￾ment on an entry, follow these steps:

1. Locate the entry on which you wish to comment.

2. Click the Comments link at the bottom of the entry.

3. Click the Post Reply link to open an edit box for your comment text (see Figure 6-7).

Figure 6-7. Posting a reply to a blog entry

4. Enter your reply message and click the Reply button.

You should see your reply below the original message in the browser (see Figure 6-8).