Entries Tagged as 'About Blogging'

When something needs to give…

I’ve just had a liberating moment – well, more than a moment, quite a few minutes really. But I feel like I’ve just freed up some of my time and will most likely fill it with something else.

What am I talking about?  My Google Reader. It had become too full with over 1,000 posts I haven’t even read or skimmed through.  It became overwhelming and I decided to cull the list of blogs I was subscribed to.  I got rid of all those which haven’t updated for months – although that didn’t cull the 1000+ new posts I haven’t yet read. And then I went through those that I was really no longer interested in but had subscribed to quite some time ago. That included forums I might not participate in much these days.  I even found there were some dead forums or blogs – no longer active.

Whew!  Feel better now.

And then I added a few new subscriptions, mainly to photography blogs since I have a keen interest in that topic these days.

Now I can get on with my work today feeling a little less cluttered on my Internet desktop.

Doh! Did it again!

I forgot to check the amount of webspace available for a multi-user blog before upgrading it and the thing has crashed.  I had to backtrack to find out what I did when a similar incident happened earlier in the year.  And then I remembered.  I had to get it restored to a former backed up version by my IT guy and then add webspace and then upgrade the thing.  Forgot, forgot, forgot!

So hoping he can fix it for me soon so I can increase the space and then re-run the upgrade.  Doh!

Blog or post?

You are viewing a blog – a series of articles or posts that make up the blog.  This particular piece you are reading is a post or blogpost.

One of my pet peeves, although only little, is people who ask about writing blogs when they actually mean posts or articles.

It’s just a little thing but I feel it important to educate people – a blog is a collective of posts, thoughts, articles, entries, whatever but the individual items are the blog posts – not the blog.

What do you think? Blog or post?

The Joys of Tweaking Templates

Many of you know that I’ve renewed my passion for photography and have set up a new site and template to display my photos but there are a few things that just won’t work the way I want it to.  Enter the blog forums – great avenue for learning from others who have a bit more experience than you – or me!

I belong to two active blog forums which I find very worthwhile being a member of.  I am able to offer assistance and provide answers and I’m also able to ask questions and learn from others.  Great way to network and learn about blogging too.

So, if you have challenges tweaking a template or not understanding something else, why not drop by a bloggers forum and participate and learn?

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