Important note: The content in the PCU Blog is commentary and opinion, and therefore shouldn’t be treated the same way as the reviewed, published content within PCU. Though there is educational value in most of the posts on this blog, those posts should be viewed the way you would an article on Wikipedia, other blog sites, and other free sites on the web—interesting and (hopefully) entertaining, but not to be used as a source in a research paper or report.

Navigating Content

Top-Level Navigation

The top right of the PCU Blog provides three options from any page on the site:

PCU Home: Takes you to the home page of the main Pop Culture Universe site, a subscription research database on all areas of American and world pop culture.

Help: That’s the page you’re on now.

About: General information about the PCU Blog site.

Right Column Navigation

On the home page of the PCU Blog, the following options are available on the right side of the page:

Archives: Select a month to view all of the posts for that month.

Categories: Select a subject category to view all posts that have been tagged with that subject. The number following the category shows how many posts have been tagged with that subject.

Authors: Lists all of the contributors to the PCU Blog. Click on any of the names listed to find out more about that author.

Blogroll: A quick list of our favorite pop culture blogs, as determined by the editors of Pop Culture Universe.

Meta: Here’s where you can register or log in to the site.

On all other pages in the site, the Blogroll and Meta sections are removed from the right column.

Reading Posts

Each blog post is displayed in its entirety, and contains the following elements:

Title of post
Date posted and author name
Body of post

The bottom of each post contains the following:

Bookmark to: Allows you to save this post to your favorite social bookmarking or blog/news aggregating service, including Del.icio.us, digg, furl, Technorati, Yahoo My Web, Raw Sugar, Bloglines, Google Bookmarks, and others.
Post Details: When the post was created, the subject categories tagged to it, and option to track it or leave a response.
Responses to the post, with username and time stamp.
Leave a Reply: Here’s where you can leave your comments on the post. Provide your name, email address, Web site (optional), and your comments in the boxes provided—you won’t need to do this if you’re already registered and logged into the site.