Become a contributor

In order to achieve our goal of becoming the premier web destination for left libertarian writing, leftlibertarian.org asks all our contributors to submit topical content. Since many bloggers write about a wide variety of topics, it’s important to make sure that our site posts only those articles that are relevant to left libertarianism. As traffic increases we are attempting to streamline the manner in which blogs provide us with posts.

leftlibertarian.org recieves posts from blogs via feeds. These are special documents where the content is published in XML format (instead of HTML like a regular web page you view in a browser). XML is designed to facilitate the consumption of content by programs rather than humans. This site’s aggregator program checks your blog feed’s XML document for new posts every so often. When an update is identified, the content of the post is extracted from the XML and repackaged for viewing on leftlibertarian.org.

So many bloggers who write about a variety of issues find that creating a leftlibertarian.org-specific feed is the best way to contribute articles. This way you maintain one blog on which you can write about anything while still being able to write for the community! There are a wide array of approaches for doing this, depending on the blogging platform you use.

  • Blogger: The simplest approach is to create a label that you will apply to all articles you want to be featured on our site. Then follow the instructions on this page to create a URL. Then submit it to us!
  • Wordpress: Like Blogger, the easiest way is to create a special category for leftlibertarian.org posts. This post at Lorelle on Wordpress is the best resource for figuring out how to construct a category-specific feed URL.� If you have special URL rules implemented, this may not work - check the Wordpress Codex for further help.

Please let me know if you have information on constructing tag / label / category specific feeds on other platforms.

There are other ways to construct feeds for specific content. If your platform doesn’t allow special feeds, consider using a service like Yahoo!Pipes to analyze your blog’s feed and roll a leftlibertarian.org-specific one out of it. Or contact the staff for further assistance.

Thanks for your understanding and cooperation!