What is this place?

FIRST Blogs is a collection of blogs (online web journals) from people currently or previously involved with the FIRST Robotics Competition. Please Add Your Blog.

About

FIRST Blogs is an aggregation of public weblogs written by those affiliated with FIRST in some way (including alumni). The opinions expressed in these weblogs and hence this aggregation are those of the original authors and are not necessarily those of the openFIRST project.

Add your blog

We are currently experiencing problems with our software. Some parts of this site may not function as expected. Entries are being updated once again.

Help

2008-09-07

Resources:

Wikipedia explanation of a blog (for the unintiated)
FIRST Blogs API (for developers)
Thread encouraging feedback

Who runs this?

FIRST Blogs is part of the openFIRST Project and is run by a team of volunteers. This team includes Kayla, Ashley and Tim. If you'd like to help out, e-mail Tim (tim at openfirst dot org)

How this works

We frequently look for new entries on your blog (typically once an hour). Every 15 minutes there is an update cycle in which approximately 1/4 of the total number of blogs on FIRST Blogs are examined. The new posts are indexed and added to our site. Overall statistics are kept regarding terms used in blog entries in order to produce the tag cloud.

Help us out

If you've come here wanting to help out with FIRST Blogs please e-mail tim@openfirst.org. We're always in need of people and could use some help finding/adding new bloggers (fell free to use the Add Your Blog form to submit other's blogs). We'd also appreciate some help moderating the queue of blogs which are up for submission to FIRST Blogs. There's the potential to have a lot of them in the queue at any given point and any incorrect information requires following up with the submitter.

Also, we appreciate links back to FIRST Blogs. If you wish to do so you may use the following code:

<p><a href="http://blog.openfirst.org/"><img src="http://blog.openfirst.org/img/wr/first_blogs_logo-small.gif" alt="FIRST Blogs" title="FIRST Blogs - Online web journals of people involved in FIRST Robotics"></a></p>

which will display the following button:

or, perhaps you may want to try a user bar like those that are gaining popularity on Chief Delphi with the following BB code.

[url=http://blog.openfirst.org/][img]http://www.openfirst.org/image/userbar/firstblogs.png[/img][/url]

which will display the following user bar:

FIRST Blogs