Did We Reach Our 2008 Blog Goals? New Goals for 2009

My Blog Plans for 2008 post listed four specific posts I planned to write and two new subject areas for the blog.  A review of the year’s posts shows that all four posts were fulfilled and that we did get into one of the two new areas (children’s safety).
So let’s set new goals for 2009.

I’ll [...]

New Commenting Guidelines

A rewrite of the guidelines for posting comments to the blog. As easy as the earlier guidelines were, several commenters found them too hard to follow. So here’s the straightforward version:

Be nice
Be constructive
Or be deleted.

Thanks to those who have commented — some have included links to other resources. Keep reading and posting. I’ll have a [...]

Blog Update

“For the Record” is not lost and forgotten. I’ve been busy upgrading with better tagging, social bookmarking, a categorized blogroll, and other bells and whistles. Any additional ideas or suggestions, let me know.
And now back to our regularly scheduled blog (about every two weeks).

COMMENTING GUIDELINES

Due to the sensitive and sometimes controversial topics on this blog, we all benefit from making extra effort at courtesy and inclusiveness. The bedrock principle is respect in debate and the inevitable plurality of viewpoints. Major problems, such as sexual violence, are rarely solved by a single individual. Specifically:
1. Name-calling and personal attacks will not [...]

“For Men” category, but no “For Women”?

A word of clarification is in order. You may see that the category “for men” has a large number of posts, while the category “for women” doesn’t even exist. Why?
Because: While men are rape victims, rape is overwhelmingly a female experience perpetrated by males. Therefore, nearly every post in this blog is for women by [...]

Intro to the rape information blog [the original first posting on this blog]

[Originally posted on Tuesday, July 04, 2006 at 4:42 PM PDT]
The purpose of this blog is to serve as a central information source about sexual assault–a source you can comment on and interact with. It’s a good place to learn about sexual assalt and to discuss current news stories, updated statistics, and personal [...]