So they say but whatever is the case, Model Lodge 373 intends to keep in touch with the world made smaller by the huge advances in information technology.
Starting today, basic information and the latest updates about the work of Model Lodge 373 will be available 24 hours through its blog.
To access Model Lodge 373’s blog, just copy-and-paste or type the following web address http://model373.blogspot.com/ and search it in the Internet. One click and we will be there.
The blog is created and maintained free at blogger.com. It will be Model Lodge 373’s calling card to the world and through it tell its story to a wider audience and receive feedback about its work.
Model Lodge 373’s blog will feature a blog page for recent news where readers can comment after each article, an archive of previously posted articles, a link page with other online lodges in the Philippines, and message box for quick feedbacking.
New features like a photo and video gallery, a search engine, a visitor locator, and advertisement will soon be available.
But what is a blog? Wikipedia defines it as “a type of website… with regular entries of commentary, description of events, or other materials such as graphics or video… commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order”.
It is today one of the most popular forms of cyber-journalism with 112 million blogs tracked by Technorati in 2007 alone and 120,000 new blogs created every day. That’s huge considering that the first blog in the world was said to have been published in 1998 only. Of the 100 most popular websites in the Internet today, 22 are blogs.
This blog is a work in progress. Your feedback and suggestions to make it better are most welcome.
PHOTO: Members of the Model Lodge No. 373 of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the Philippines during the second public installation of its officers for 2009. This article was also published in the September-October 2009 issue of "The Craftsman".
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