You have fairly broad leeway on what to post about as part of this contest, but posts about Britney Spears will probably be considered off-topic (unless Britney Spears suddenly developed a social conscience and did something truly newsworthy).

The general idea is to blog about current issues and events, and to generate discussion. You'll find people blogging about music, entertainment, sports, news -- all kinds of issues, but we reserve the right to remove any post for any reason.

• When you create a new post you'll have the opportunity to categorize it as being related to one of progressive principles that we have listed on the site: broad prosperity [0], shared responsibility [0], effective government [0], and better future [0].

• Select one of these principles and one or more category, if appropriate for your post.

• We do not want truly random postings for the purposes of this contest. Many students are writing well-thought-out posts about current events, social, and cultural issues, and it is not fair to those contestants if we allow points for random musings -- especially multiple postings of random musings.

• We also don't like it when you cut and paste multiple posting from your MySpace or LiveJournal blog and submit them for the contest.

• It is OK to post things that you have written for classes or posted before on other blogs -- if you think what you've written is good and would be appreciated by the Progressive U audience.

• Browse through other posts (especially those that have been promoted to the front page) to see what types of posts are appropriate.

• Finally, we will disqualify and/or remove any posts that violate copyright law, are libelous, obscene, or that harass or abuse other members and users of this site. For more details on these policies please review our Terms of Use [0] and Fair Use Notice [0].