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They came from Gerrie Schipske's weblog.

Long Beach's 5th District councilwoman posts daily at Schipskedistrict5journal.com .

Big deal, right?

Everybody blogs.

Not so, when it comes to elected officials.

Schipske is the only Long Beach City Council member with an online diary.

Many politicians blog from the campaign trail - Schipske did, too - but few retain the habit when they take office.

The councilwoman, who represents much of Long Beach's Eastside, spends about 30 minutes a night writing at home - without help from staff or taxpayer money.

"It's a way to communicate with people in a city where we're a one-newspaper town, for the most part," she said over coffee in Bixby Knolls at a cafe not far from her day job at the Teachers Association of Long Beach headquarters, where she is general legal counsel.

Her site has recorded about 36,000 page views since her Oct.

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I was happy too that my first thoughts were wrong _ he did not leave because he was asked to, he left because he wanted to.

If one were to write a Wikipedia entry on the origins of So, my plans to write about the environment will have to be shelved as I muse over Mr BR, the impact he made on the Brunei blogosphere and most of all how he always played nice in cyberspace.

If you have ever read The Daily Brunei Resources you would know that Mr BR wrote mostly about the country we call home, as is pretty evident in his blog name.

Postings about Brunei's history, culture and its people were his forte.

He helped redefine Brunei's blogosphere from the young who posted personal diaries, to those who blog about their hobbies, to old fogeys like me who jumped onto the bandwagon.

From the clues he dropped about his personal life, to whisperings on the grapevine, it became known to the public in cyberspace that the person behind ...