h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This looks a lot better now!

I think it would benefit from some headings. If you don't know how to do GuideML, just put them on a separate line. Once you have done that, you'll be able to split up the really big paragraph in the middle. I think that the sentences in that paragraph are too long and could benefit from being split into shorter ones.

Well done!

Oh yes, that's a great improvement. It reads very well and is a good guide to blogging. I actually feel I could go and contribute to one now!


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Gnomon, Frenchbean
Thanx for the praise .
I have added headings (using GuideML) though the last one may need to be reworded, again comments on this wud be appreciated.

Aurojit

Well, I'd agree that the rather more interesting diries are the ones which the author didn't intend to be published, despite the fact they were. I mean, to be honest I'd say that was the big difference between these private diaries which were eventually published and the from the first meant to be read blogs, is well, that. I'd imagine it has had a rather interesting effect on the diary genre. Unless you can count them more as the sort of personal lifestyle column things you get in newspapers. But then, as you say in your entry, there's more diversity to the people in blogs, even if they do have a life more ordinary.

Anyway I'm onto commentry now rather than anything helpful. Shows what a great entry it is though!

Guess I should have included this in the updates I sent to my college after all, probably would have helped me get through some of the better ones.

Aurojit

Nice entry aurojit

Well done on the revisions and effort made to fit this entry in with h2g2 guidelines It is a steep learning curve for some first-time authors.

For the benefit of researchers with restricted access to the web it is nice to also provide internal h2g2 links to other entries eg A581005 Anne Frank and her Diary (I haven't found any other blog relevant entries to suggest)

The other danger with too many external links is that they tend to break as time goes by and need revising.

Pimms

Hi
Thanks for the praise, and I have now added a link to H2G2s entry on Anne Frank. Most of the places I have linked to (except for The Guardian Story, and the one about the Microsoft worker) are pretty stable, so I doubt revising links would be really all that necessary.

Aurojit

Your Guide Entry has just been picked from Peer Review by one of our Scouts, and is now heading off into the Editorial Process, which ends with publication in the Edited Guide. We've therefore moved this Review Conversation out of Peer Review and to the entry itself.

If you'd like to know what happens now, check out the page on 'What Happens after your Entry has been Recommended?' at EditedGuide-Process. We hope this explains everything.

Thanks for contributing to the Edited Guide!

well done!

aurojit

Pimms

(now be prepared to wait - it can take anything from about a week to three months to get to the front page. I didn't realise this when I had my first entry accepted and I got a little frustrated. The sub-editor who chooses this entry will probably post here in the next few days)

Frenchbean, Pimms
Thanx for the congratulatory messages, oh and thanx for the warning pimms.

Aurojit

You've made it very quickly to having an entry accepted, Aurijit, which is a great accolade in itself. Congratulations on the recommendation! Welcome to h2g2.

NB: I see you haven't made any entries in your own journal yet

Thanx, umm as for the journal, I kindda maintain a blog which most of my friends read and well if I duplicated it for my journal entries it'd be a little redundant, hence no journal entry.... Sorry.

Aurojit

Yes, I rather thought that would be the case. No journal here means your friends on h2g2 can't keep up with what you're doing, although if you subscribe to their spaces, you can keep up with what they're up to.

Well done, Aurojit!

Hmm I do know abt being able to keep up with what my friends r doing if I subscribe to their spaces thingee, and as for the rest of it, I guess I cud duplicate whatever I put into my blog.
Aurojit

Thanx Gnomon, didn't come across your post earlier.

Aurojit

Aurojit,

You can subscribe to your friend's journals by going to their personal space and clicking on the 'Add to Friends List'.

Redundant journal entry has now been added.

Aurojit

Gosh! Now I feel like a bully, which wasn't my intention at all! Please don't post to your journal if you really don't want to.