Karmacino - a relaxing blend of Buddhist news and muse from around the world, contributed and rated by you.

How To Use Karmacino

First time user - using Karmacino and voting
Registering as a user
Posting an article on Karmacino
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First time user - using Karmacino and voting

Karmacino is a "social bookmarking" site that aims to gather in one place the latest and greatest Buddhist news, teachings and information about arts and science. Everything is categorized under headings, and by time of listing, and the most popular (by vote) articles move to the top. Simply click on the 'Vote' icon beside each article to vote.

1. On the front page of Karmacino are the latest and most popular articles. If you click on the title of an article that interests you, a new tab will open and take you to the article on the site it was originally published. You can also click on the "Discuss" to make your own comments on the article. The "Tell a friend" link will email the article to someone you know.

2. The "Live" link shows you who is posting or voting on articles in real time. The "Top Users" is a list of users and their posting statistics. Finally there is the "Tag Cloud". This page provides a list of topics that are covered by articles on Karmacino. The larger the topic, the more articles there are on this topic in Karmacino.

3. The 3 main headings are: "Published Items", "Upcoming Items" and "Submit a new item". Published items are articles that have been submitted and also received a certain number of votes. The Upcoming Items are articles that have been submitted but have not yet received enough votes to go onto the "Published Items" page. So if you want to know what has most recently been submitted to Karmacino, go to the "Upcoming Items" page and vote for any articles you like.

4. Useful are the "Sort news by:" links. If, for instance you click on "Month" you will see which articles have been the most popular during the past month. For the week gone by, click on "week", and so forth.

5. On the right hand column of the page are blocks which link to special features. For example the "Categories" block. Not only will this allow you to filter articles by genre, they also allow you to subscribe to news (RSS) feeds of what is being posted to Karmacino.

Registering as a user

To Register, use the registration box on top right hand side (This disappears once you have registered and log in.) Enter a username, valid email address and password. Once you have registered you will receive an email to confirm that you want to register an account.

You will also notice that on your profile page you will be able to refer to all the stories that you've submitted, had published, all your comments and votes. In this way Karmacino keeps track of all the web articles you've bookmarked and voted for. You can go back and refer to these any time.

Posting an article

Once you are registered you can login using the block on the top right (or click the "Login" link at the top). Once you have logged in you will be able to submit items. You can do this by copying and pasting URLs (web site links) in the space proved on the "Submit Items" page.

But there is a much easier way to do this. Go to your profile page and at the bottom of the page you will see a block titled "Easy Submission of News Links". This will explain how to have a bookmark in your browser for Karmacino that will allow you to submit stories easily. Once you have got the Karmacino submit bookmark in your browser (by following the instruction on the page), any time that you come across an article on the web that you would like to share on Karmacino, all you have to do is go to the Karmacino bookmark in your browser and a new browser window will open with details of the page you want to add. Just complete the form and submit!