Release 3 (R3) in Beta

I'm going to try Joe's suggestion about using the Beta version of the journal so I can access the convenient blogging links in the footers that only become apparent if you add beta to the front of a journal address.

I'm going to copy and link to his entry where he explains all this.

This is just an experiment to help increase my technology IQ.

What follows is directly copied from Joe Loong's journal. For those who are not familiar with Joe, he's the tech guru programmer of the AOL journal pages. I have his journal linked to mine on the right, Magic Smoke, if you want to check him out.

Here goes. Hope I did it right!

 

Release 3 (R3) in Beta :

"* Blog About This Entry is even more useful than I originally thought, but only if you're using Microsoft's Internet Explorer (this includes the browser that you use with your AOL software). I did not realize this because I was using the Firefox browser when I tested Blog About This Entry.

So, say I'm looking at the beta version of Product Manager Susan's entry about privacy settings and online presence (again, you can get to the Journals beta simply by adding "beta." to the beginning of any Journal's address),  http://beta.journals.aol.com/blogsinsider/intheknow/entries/804. I have something I want to say about her entry, so I want to do my own blog post talking about it and linking to it.

If I just click the "Blog about this entry" link in the footer of her entry, it will pop open a window for a new blog entry; the subject will be prepopulated, and there will be a hyperlink to Susan's entry -- you can change both of these, as well as add your own words, just like a regular entry.  Then, choose which blog of yours you want to publish to (via the pulldown menu at the bottom), and then you're all set:

Pretty simple, but it gets better.

If you're using Internet Explorer, you can "quote" from the Journal entry, just like you can quote text when you're replying to an e-mail.

What you do is use your mouse to highlight the portion of the entry you want to quote --it can include both words and pictures:

Then, with the part you want to quote still highlighted, scroll down to entry's footer and click "Blog about this entry." This will pop up the window to create a new blog entry, but it will also include the words and/or pictures you highlighted.

You can then add your own commentary; click save, and it will publish to your blog."

It looks like it worked! The copy part worked. Now let's see if it will Save to my journal. Thanks for the info, Joe!