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Kat

Kat Report 28 Feb 2025 13:32

I'm trying to find a blog, but there doesn't seem to be any way of searching. It would be an old one - between 2003 and 2011.
Where do I start, please? TIA

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 28 Feb 2025 15:04

No blogs on here

They are only on the wider internet

Try googling

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 28 Feb 2025 15:05

Welcome to the boards.

Genes doesn’t have blogs.

If you are referring to an old thread then use the search facilities on the right.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 28 Feb 2025 15:06

Wikipedia definition of BLOG

A blog (a truncation of "weblog")[1] is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. In the 2000s, blogs were often the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often covered a single subject or topic. In the 2010s, "multi-author blogs" (MABs) emerged, featuring the writing of multiple authors and sometimes professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, advocacy groups, and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into the news media. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

etc....etc............

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 28 Feb 2025 15:08

If you want to find an old THREAD.......use 'advanced search' under TOOLS - to the left

Kat

Kat Report 4 Mar 2025 09:46

No, not a THREAD Erika - a Blog and I do know what a blog is! They do exist. It seems that perhaps people are no longer writing or interested in them. When the original GR was sold in c2006, a lot changed.

https://www.genesreunited.co.uk/blog

However, I cannot find any of the blogs that were written before 2010

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 4 Mar 2025 10:40

Didn’t know they existed and are well hidden.

I wonder if it is worth asking Genes about the particular blog you are interested in.

Googling can sometimes pick these things up.

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 4 Mar 2025 10:41

News to me.............suggest you ask GR

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 4 Mar 2025 10:47

Found the hiding place ( not the pre 2010 ones) they are in ‘News’ at the top.

Kat

Kat Report 4 Mar 2025 12:30

Pleased you found the few that remain!
I was a member from when the site first opened but I left in 2011 to help set up a new site. I came back last week, but my old email addy is defunct, so I have had to re-register.
Many thanks for looking for me.

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 4 Mar 2025 12:51

Well, well, whatever next!
I've been a member from the start, and had never heard of GR blogs!

ErikaH

ErikaH Report 4 Mar 2025 13:21

I remember when the mass exodus of disgruntled members - following a series of very unpleasant and avoidable rows.

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 4 Mar 2025 14:03

:-0

Kat

Kat Report 4 Mar 2025 15:53

That was the reason I left Erika - it was awful :(