Bad Blogger
Topic: Blogging
I've been a bad blogger. What keeps readers coming back? New blog entries of course. Gotta keep it fresh! I will be taking the GRE March 17, so between getting ready for that and a few other things my poor blog has suffered. My intention has been write extra articles to be posted later to fill in those holes when I don't have time to write. However, I never quite get to that point. Someday...
Topics
You might have noticed a change recently... the addition of categories! As anyone who uses Blogger knows, there are no categories in blogger. To get around this I created a blog for each category, and used the post template to create a link in each post. It took a bit of work to set it up, but now that its working it is almost as good as the real thing. To save myself double-posting each entry to the topic and the main blog, I enter it once into the topic blog, blogger emails it to my gmail account where I set up a forward to email the post to my main blog account. Nice.
Moving On?
Although I can't imagine remaining on blogger for much longer. It is a fantastic introduction to the world of blogging, and if you want to keep it simple then it is perfect. I feel as though I have already outgrown it as I like to tweak and customize everything I get my hands on. It has been a good five months but I feel like I have pushed it as far as it will go. The topics solution gave blogger a loan on life, but I think I may start looking elsewhere. It seems that Moveable Type is pretty popular, but I would need a host for that. Any suggestions?
Bloglines
I have also recently begun using Bloglines. I know I'm pretty late on that one, but I had been using News Is Free. Bloglines is a web based, FREE, feed reader. It is easy to use, flexible and I love it. I recommend this program to anyone who is new to news/blog feeds or anyone who wants a web based news reader. Go check it out. I especially like the little button you can place in the toolbar of your browser that allows you to subscribe to a site with the click of a button. No searching for the URL of the feed, or trying to remember the site to add it later, just hit the button while you're viewing the site. Awesome!
I've been a bad blogger. What keeps readers coming back? New blog entries of course. Gotta keep it fresh! I will be taking the GRE March 17, so between getting ready for that and a few other things my poor blog has suffered. My intention has been write extra articles to be posted later to fill in those holes when I don't have time to write. However, I never quite get to that point. Someday...
Topics
You might have noticed a change recently... the addition of categories! As anyone who uses Blogger knows, there are no categories in blogger. To get around this I created a blog for each category, and used the post template to create a link in each post. It took a bit of work to set it up, but now that its working it is almost as good as the real thing. To save myself double-posting each entry to the topic and the main blog, I enter it once into the topic blog, blogger emails it to my gmail account where I set up a forward to email the post to my main blog account. Nice.
Moving On?
Although I can't imagine remaining on blogger for much longer. It is a fantastic introduction to the world of blogging, and if you want to keep it simple then it is perfect. I feel as though I have already outgrown it as I like to tweak and customize everything I get my hands on. It has been a good five months but I feel like I have pushed it as far as it will go. The topics solution gave blogger a loan on life, but I think I may start looking elsewhere. It seems that Moveable Type is pretty popular, but I would need a host for that. Any suggestions?
Bloglines
I have also recently begun using Bloglines. I know I'm pretty late on that one, but I had been using News Is Free. Bloglines is a web based, FREE, feed reader. It is easy to use, flexible and I love it. I recommend this program to anyone who is new to news/blog feeds or anyone who wants a web based news reader. Go check it out. I especially like the little button you can place in the toolbar of your browser that allows you to subscribe to a site with the click of a button. No searching for the URL of the feed, or trying to remember the site to add it later, just hit the button while you're viewing the site. Awesome!
posted by Jonathan at 3/08/2005 12:59:00 PM
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