What are Personal Journals?
Personal Journals are much like Web Logs or “Blogs”. Members may post entries as often as they wish throughout the day. When the entries are displayed, they are ordered by post time and date. Unlike a bulletin board, the author of the Journal may re-edit the entries as often and as many times as she wishes. She may even change the post time and thus change the order in which the entries appear. Posting in the Quiet of Your Own Home Entries posted to your journals may contain thoughts and musings that you do not think would fit on any particular board thread and that you don’t necessarily need to get any response from. For example, as you are reading a number of books on a subject, you may post notes to a journal you dedicate to that subject as a running log of your thoughts. Since the journals are searchable, they may be a great research tools. Document Structure In a sense, Personal Journals are a simple form of Online Book Authoring where the author has great control over the content
