Somewhere I've read a fairly important piece of advice that can be paraphrased as "Be careful what you write on-line, it is forever". But you say, "It's only an electronic page, I'll just take it down". The fallacy in that is that the page you see is not the only copy of the material that exists. Web page information is stored in servers, which in the normally course of things make back-ups. Your rant on the boss may exist on a server in North Carolina, and because it was public information, it can be researched and reproduced.

Blogs may be entertainment for the reader, but they represent work for the author. Audiences devour content, and if they find it good, they want more.

Lucky is the author whose writing finds an audience. He can enjoy the feeling that his work is appreciated. But fail to produce more content, or produce schlock, and the audience can evaporate or change their collective opinion about the worth of the writing. So not only does he have to produce on a regular schedule, but he needs to find something interesting and original to say. That is harder than it seems.

This is an installation of Drupal, a content management system that has the capability to create blogs, books, forums, quiz, and allow users to vote on the topics (moderate) causing the article to rise or fall in the listings, depending on popularity.

It is comprised of open-source modules, and is extensible. Most famously deployed in the Dean campaign, it is capable of handling community discussions. Site administrators can grant privileges to allow participants at different levels create, and control their own content.