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June 9, 2011

Just blogging along at a new address

WINDBER — Every day I write the blog.

  Well, actually, not every day. But every week at least.

I was referencing Elvis Costello’s 1980s hit “Every Day I Write the Book” –  trying to make it catchy.

What is a blog? Basically, a blog is short for a web log, a journal or diary on the Internet.

We are all familiar with classics of literature that were journals/diaries, such as those by Anne Frank, Samuel Pepys and Virginia Woolf.

 Obviously my blog will not reach that level of importance, but if readers of my column want a more personal take of events of the day, they can find it in my blog.



Bill Eggert is a Johnstown native. You can read his blog at http://thebillvilleblog.wordpress.com.

 

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