1. Overview

According to Wikipedia "a blog (an abridgment of the term web log) is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse chronological order. 'Blog' can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog."

Which is a fancy way of saying a blog is where someone keeps a journal or writes a series of articles. Blogs can be used to publish news, diaries, commentary and education. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. Blogs are meant to be published to an online audience. Further blogs give readers the ability to comment on a particular article. The interactive capabilities of blogs is a critical part.

The interactive part can also be a problem. Many popular blogs turn into discussion forums as the comments (posts) grow in length. As the comments stack up the now conversation drifts from the original article, yet new comments about the original article are also added making the entire process disjointed as the comments are almost always presented as one long line of chronologically ordered posts.

2. Goals

• Blog uses BBCode markup style
• Multiple Named Blogs supported displayed by list or locked down specified in an area
• If authorized administrative ability to edit all blog articles
• If authorized user ability to re-edit their own blog articles
• If authorized administrative ability to edit all blog comment
• If authorized user ability to re-edit their own blog comments
• Comment time stamps are settable and editable with authorization
• Blog article time stamps are settable and editable with authorization
• Comments or blog articles with a future time stamp are not shown until the time set
• Users with authorization may activate, deactivate and set a viewing time window to include future articles