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		<div class="center-widget-title">About the Utah Bloghive</div>
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		    <p>The Utah Bloghive aggregates headlines from some Utah blogs. The list of blogs on this site does not claim to be comprehensive. I expect to exercise some editorial control over what blogs are listed on this site. Specifically, I am aggregating blogs written by Utahns and primarily about politics. The aggregated blogs may focus on local or national politics, but I'm not interested in feeds from non-Utah sources. I am less interested in flame throwing and more interested in civil dialogue. Blogs that add little to the debate, in the view of the editor(s), may be delisted. </p>
		    <p>Our hope is that the Utah Bloghive will enhance our sense of community as Utah bloggers. Sure, anyone can set up a feed reader with a list of links, but this is a big list and people approaching the Utah blog community for the first time will surely appreciate the jump start. By featuring headlines on this site, I hope to help out the bloggers that don't update their blogs daily. </p>
		    <p><strong>The name</strong></p>
		    <p>The name &quot;Bloghive&quot; was <a href="http://www.utahpolitics.org/archives/2006/09/political_blogging.shtml">first suggested</a> by Tom Grover of <a href="http://www.kvnuforthepeople.com/">KVNU</a>. The term is not in general use anywhere else, so I'm claiming it as our label for the sphere of Utah political blogs and for this site. Thanks, Tom. </p>
		    <p><strong>The inspiration		    </strong></p>
		    <p>The concept for this site is a blatant rip-off from the <a href="http://www.ldsblogs.org/">Mormon Archipelago</a>. I am using the same code that runs that site and I've organized our site in the same way. Thanks for the great idea!  </p>
		    <p><strong>Join us</strong></p>
		    <p>If you have a blog that you think would be a good fit for the Utah Bloghive, <a href="mailto:bloghive@lavalane.org">send me an email</a> with the name of your blog, the URL of your  site, and the URL of your feed. Also tell me which category (left, right, center, etc.) best fits your site. If you have a blog that covers more than politics, I'd appreciate a specific feed link to a political category if your blogging software will support it. I also like to aggregate comments on your blog. If your blog software provides a seperate feed for site comments, be sure to provide that as well. I may not add every blog to this listing, but I'll certainly consider it. </p>
		    <p>I always appreciate links back to the Bloghive at <a href="http://utahbloghive.org">http://utahbloghive.org</a>. Here are a few logos you can try out. If you have other dimensions that would be helpful, let me know. </p>
		    <p><img src="images/bloghive-btn1-120-high.jpg" alt="bloghive logo" width="120" height="30" /> <img src="images/bloghive-btn1-120-low.jpg" alt="bloghive logo" width="120" height="30" /> <img src="images/bloghive-btn2-120-high.jpg" alt="bloghive logo" width="120" height="30" /> <img src="images/bloghive-btn3-120-high.jpg" alt="bloghive logo" width="120" height="30" /></p>
		    <p>Too intimidating? Try pasting in the following code on your site to display the logo.</p>
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<a href="http://utahbloghive.org/">
<img src="http://utahbloghive.org/images/bloghive-btn2-120-high.jpg" alt="bloghive logo" width="120" height="30" />
</a>
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		    <p><strong>Search the Bloghive</strong></p>
		    <p>The search box on this page is a Google Custom Search that searches only the sites listed here. It is a great way to find something when you want to reference it in a post or comment. The money generated from the Google ads on the search results page (if any) will go to support the hosting costs for the Bloghive. If you want to include a bloghive search on your own site, you can use the following code.  </p>
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            <p><strong>Who runs this site?</strong></p>
            <p>My name is Bradley Ross. I blog on politics (with my wife, Keryn) at <a href="http://www.lavalane.org/blava/">Hot Blava</a>. I've been looking for something like this to be created for Utah bloggers for a while, and when nothing came up, I put it together myself. I am very open to the idea of handing over editorial control of this website to an independant organization if the right offer presents itself. I've seen that editorial control can bring extra heat that I'm not particularly interested in. In the meantime, I'll give it my best shot. </p>
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