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AMERICANS BLOGGER

Will Rogers


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William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers


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No one grows up wanting to be a blogger


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Toutes les filles s'appelle Fifi: D'Orsay counsels Rogers' irritated American in Borzage's

They Had To See Paris, 1930.


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Blogging, or web logging, is no more than a personal journalpublished on the World Wide Web consisting of individual

entries.


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These short daily columns of down-to-earth,

sometimes humorous takes on current events,

everyday issues, and lifes questions


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Telegraph was the delivery mechanism of choice because mail was to slow


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It is to be skipped about in, picked up

from time to time, and above all, to be

used for historical reference.


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The first iReporter?


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"I bet you if I had met him and had a chat

with him, I would have found him a very

interesting and human fellow, for I never yet

met a man that I dident like. When you

meet people, no matter what opinion you

might have formed about them beforehand,

why, after you meet them and see their

angle and their personality, why, you can

see a lot of good in all of them.

I never met a man I didnt like


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"One sure certainty about our Memorial Days is that as fast as

the ranks from one war thin out, the ranks from another take

their place. Prominent men may run out of Decoration Day

speeches, but the world never runs out of wars. People talk

peace, but men give up their life's work to war.


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Blogging Tips

Write to be helpful.

Be brief.

Tell a story.

Connect others, if appropriate.

Share. Often.

Dont overthink it. (Its a blog,not a dissertation.)

But be thoughtful.

Dont be mean.

Publish often enough to builda relationship.

But be mindful of youraudiences time.


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Let me answer all your blogging questions


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Are bloggers journalists?

All I know is just what I

read in the papers, and

that's an alibi for my

ignorance.


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Which is more important, quality

or context?

Thats the way I write it and

thats the way I want it to

lay


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When searching "The Writings of Will Rogers," remember that Rogers took liberties with

spelling and grammar. Here are some tips that might make your search more successful:

Avoid searches that involve contractions. Rogers did not always use apostrophes;

sometimes he spelled out a contraction (e.g., "dident" for "didnt"). For example, if

searching for the quote "I never met a man I didnt like," insert in the search window

only a part of the quote and avoid the contraction (e.g., I never met a man).

Try different possible spellings of a proper name or a concept.

Will Rogers Memorial Museum


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What can todays bloggers learn

The power of an amplified

voice creates a moral

responsibility to get the

facts straight and to notspread hate.


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What can todays bloggers learn

Define the word value and

then consider whether

you have something

valuable to say and peoplewant to or need to hear it.


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The more things change the more they stay the same

Jean-Babtiste Alphonse Karr


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"Everything is changing. People are

taking the comedians seriously andthe politicians as a joke."


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The whole show has degenerated into nothing but a dog

fight for vice president. All we have done today is listen to

Senator Fess explain what he forgot to say yesterday, and it

took him all day today to alibi for it. I dont know who he

forgot today that he will have to bring up tomorrow.

Rogers Thinks Little of G.O.P. Convention Tactics

1928 Republican Convention


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Well boys, she blowed up about noon today in a blaze of harmony.

Joe Robinson of Arkansas got the nomination with more democratic

agreeing than had ever agreed on anything in the history of the party.

They got a great fellow in Joe.

He is a real two-fisted he candidate. He comes from the wilds of

Arkansaw where they are hard to tame.

Everybody was in a hurry and sweating and all the states were voting

on the Smith nomination when it got to them. Course Oklahoma

didn't agree, and the whole 15,000 people had to stop for half anhour while they called all their names and instead of sending 20 there

was 40 come with half a vote each.

Will Says Arkansawyers Hard to Tame He Knows

1928 Democrat Convention


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Americans will feed anyone thats not close to them.

Even if you are on the right track, youll get run over if you just sit there.

The only problem with Boy Scouts is there arent enough of them.

Will Rogers


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There will never be another

Spoke for everyone but everyone doesn't

exist anymore

So much static not possible to break through

with the same force


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Never miss a good chance to shut up.Will Rogers

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