Blog to offer more from the great outdoors.Byline: INSIDE THE OUTDOORS By Mike Stahlberg The Register-Guard Something huge is often said to be "as big as all outdoors." We're not sure exactly how big that is, but we do know the outdoors is considerably larger than can be captured on the two pages The Register-Guard has available for its weekly Outdoors section. Luckily, there appears to be no limit to the amount of information that can be posted on the Internet. Which is why we're announcing an expanded Outdoors report on our Web site, www.registerguard.com. The Outdoors "weblog See blog and Web log. (World-Wide Web) weblog - (Commonly "blog") Any kind of diary published on the World-Wide Web, usually written by an individual (a "blogger") but also by corporate bodies. ," or blog, will include a new feature called, "It's Your Shot." Think of it as an electronic bulletin board on which readers can share their hunting, fishing and other outdoor adventure photos. Back when newsprint newsprint low grade paper used for newspapers. Old newspapers are fed to cattle as an alternative roughage and may occasionally be ingested by dogs. Significant amounts of lead are accumulated in tissues; no cases of poisoning have been recorded in cattle, though it has been was a penny a pound, publishing "big fish" and "big buck" pictures was common. But the practice was phased out, so when people like Steve Barnes brought us impressive photos - like Barnes' 50-pound chinook Chinook, indigenous people of North America Chinook (shĭn  k`, chĭ–), Native American tribe of the Penutian linguistic stock. , at right - we
had nowhere to put it.
Now we again have a place for your prize shots. If you take an outdoors photo you'd like to share, e-mail a digital file (in .jpg format) to: mstahlberg@guardnet.com. Include your name, when and where the photo was taken and the names of the photographer and of the person(s) shown in the photo. Place the words "Attn.: Your Shot" in the subject line. The "Blogging through the Outdoors" Web site allows us to boost outdoors coverage in other ways, including: Breaking outdoors news. Until now, the Outdoors section has been like a weekly newspaper - silent six days a week. For example, we received word of the death of prominent guide and outfitter Denny Hannah too late for last week's Outdoors page. But we were able to post an announcement, including details of Saturday's memorial service, on the Web log. Updated fishing, hunting and wildlife viewing tips. Frankly, with the Outdoors section being published on Tuesdays, the fishing and hunting information available is of little value by the weekend, when most people go. Information provided later in the week by state Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists ''' The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. A wildlife biologist is someone who studies wild animals and their habitats. and other sources can now be included on the Outdoors blog as it becomes available. Expanded visual coverage on Outdoors Page articles. If a picture is worth a thousand words A picture is worth a thousand words is a proverb that refers to the idea that complex stories can be told with just a single still image, or that an image may be more influential than a substantial amount of text. , then many thousands of words go unsaid in the daily newspaper due to space limitations. When appropriate, "Blogging through the Outdoors" will have links to additional photographs. For an example, check out the slide show that adds color and texture to William Sullivan's feature below about hiking hiking Walking, often among hills or mountains, as recreational sport. It represents an activity in its own right and also figures in backpacking, camping, hunting, mountaineering, and orienteering. on Stromboli. Expanded reporting on outdoor-related issues. Look for "bonus" coverage from news services and links to stories in other newspapers around the country. In short, we believe there's a list of reasons as big as all outdoors that you'll want to bookmark A stored location for quick retrieval at a later date. Web browsers provide bookmarks that contain the addresses (URLs) of favorite sites. Most electronic references, large text databases and help systems provide bookmarks that mark a location users want to revisit in the future. "Blogging through the Outdoors" (www.registerguard.com/outdoors) on your browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used . Meanwhile, "Outsider" columnist columnist, the writer of an essay appearing regularly in a newspaper or periodical, usually under a constant heading. Although originally humorous, the column in many cases has supplanted the editorial for authoritative opinions on world problems. John Rezell will continue to have his own, separate Web log. It can be accessed through the "Guard Posts" page, www.registerguard.com/blogs. |
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