Welcome to the eighth annual Holidailies project. Holidailies is a free community writing project. All Holidailies 2007 participants promise to update their personal web sites every day from December 1 to January 1. Portal participants post summaries of their entries, which are aggregated on the front page of Holidailies 2007, newest entries listed first.

You can view a list of all portal participants in the left-hand column. You can sort this list in a number of ways by using the pull-down menu at the bottom of the list.

Holidailies at Home is another way to participate in Holidailies. Holidailies at Home participants promise to update daily, but don't post summaries to the portal. If your site doesn't meet the portal requirements or if you don't want to mess with daily portal postings, you can still join Holidailies at Home. Your site will appear on the Holidailies at Home page, and you can include a Holidailies button graphic on your web site.

Holidailies 2007 will be open for registration to anyone who meets the following guidelines. Web sites or entries that do not meet the guidelines are subject to removal from the Holidailies portal or Holidailies at Home.

General Holidailies Guidelines

Read these guidelines and agree to them before you register to join Holidailies at Home or the Holidailies portal.

• Participants must promise that they will try reallyreally hard to update their web sites every day from December 1, 2007, to January 1, 2008. With holiday obligations, this realistically means you might post a minimum of 20 entries for the month.
• Participating web sites can be generally personal or geared toward a topic (movies, music, crafts, etc.). It's okay if your site has ads on it, but sites that are obviously created strictly for commercial purposes (for example, shopping blogs that only promote products from affiliates) will be disqualified.
• Suggested minimum content for each Holidailies entry you post would be 50 words or one photograph. If you have a music-themed site and post CD reviews every day, that's fine. However, one-sentence entries don't count. And if you post nothing but the results of silly online quizzes, you may face the Crankiness of Jette.
• Typepad, LiveJournal, Diaryland, Blogspot, and other community-based personal sites are welcome. However, you must be able to link directly to your site with a specific URL.
• Your entries must be accessible by the general public. Sites that are password-protected or access-restricted (members-only, friends-only) will be removed.
• Please post to the portal just once a day. If you write several articles in a day, pick your best one to post. Now, don't tell anybody, but if you fall behind we will allow you to sneak in a posting in the morning and another in the evening. Otherwise, the portal may reject your posting.
• Holidailies assumes no responsibility or liability or whatnot for the content of any pages linked on the portal. Read at your own risk.
• Feel free to copy or link to the Holidailies button graphics in the sidebar.
• We reserve the right to remove web sites from the Holidailies project if they are commercial sites masquerading as personal ones, if they do not meet the above-listed criteria, if they crash our browsers, if they use excessive Flash and other plug-ins, or if they generally annoy us and we're in a bad mood.
• The Holidailies portal and Holidailies at Home will be open from December 1, 2007 through January 1, 2008.

Holidailies Portal Requirements

Your site must meet these requirements if you want to join the Holidailies portal.

• You must be able to link directly to your site and directly to your individual entries. Each entry must have its own unique and unchanging URL.
• You must post a summary of each entry to the portal, using the Post Entry link in the right-hand sidebar. If you aren't posting regularly to the portal, even if you update your web site every day, you will be moved from the portal listing to Holidailies at Home.
• When you post to the portal, limit your entry descriptions to less than 50 words, all in one paragraph. Do not add formatting (italics, bold, and especially smilies) or special characters to the entry descriptions. Do not include any words that would get you fined by the FCC if you were broadcasting. We will edit inappropriate portal posts.
• When you post to the portal, place a checkmark in the Adult content checkbox if a specific entry is not suitable for a general audience. The entry will appear in the portal with the word "Adult" appended.
• We might close portal registration before the deadline if the portal gets too full. (This has happened in previous years.) If so, you will still be able to sign up for Holidailies at Home. It's a good idea to sign up as soon as registration opens.

The deadline for joining the portal is Wednesday, December 2, 2007. The deadline for joining Holidailies at Home is Saturday, December 8, 2007. No exceptions.

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