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I just started a blog (forwardever.typepad.com/) this week and was wondering what are some good ways to keep it up without it being too time consuming.
1. How much time do you typically spend writing a blog entry?
2. I'm Mac user and am also wondering what's the best way to get the blog sites I'm reading on a regular basis. Seems like just going through my bookmarks is too time consuming, especially when click to a site and see that it still hasn't been updated. I've been trying to find about this thing called RSS feed? Does that help in reading regular post? Where do I go to set it up?
Thanks for any and all feedback.
1. How much time do you typically spend writing a blog entry?
2. I'm Mac user and am also wondering what's the best way to get the blog sites I'm reading on a regular basis. Seems like just going through my bookmarks is too time consuming, especially when click to a site and see that it still hasn't been updated. I've been trying to find about this thing called RSS feed? Does that help in reading regular post? Where do I go to set it up?
Thanks for any and all feedback.
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Re: Blogging tips?
05/06On your first question, I thought every day would work, but quickly realized that I wasn't that diligent. Then, for a few different reasons I created 3 different blogs and find that if I can at least get one entry in per week, it satisfies my need to share info and the therapeutic effects I get from blogging...can you say get the rants out! ;-)
Just got my girlfriend who also has a Mac to start using Bloglines and it seems to work for her, so let me recommend that to you. I've been a Bloglines user on a PC, but it works on a Mac too. It's a web interface so no software to download which gives you infinite mobility to access the blogs you're keeping track of.
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05/06Bloglines is a good starting place but if you're like me, you'll like to work offline sometimes and take your feeds with you.
for the mac, there's programs such as Netnewswire and Newsfire which can watch feeds for you and let you read them at your leisure. -
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Re: Blogs to go
05/07There are several desktop readers that play well with bloglines, letting you use multiple desktop readers and a vanilla browser to boot.
Bloglines Web Services Selected by FeedDemon, NetNewsWire and Blogbot to Eliminate RSS Bandwidth Bottleneck
www.bloglines.com/about/pr_09282004
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Re: Blogging tips?
05/06My blog is both a place for me to share and for me to keep things I want to find later, so I have lots of small entries and then big ones every couple of days that I sit and poke and prod at. -
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05/06Thanks to both of you. I'm getting really helpful feedback so far. I think challenge is to figure out the purpose of my blog. I could keep it personal, but I sometimes think it would be bette if I find some sort of niche. Perhaps I'll just keep writing and see it goes.
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Re: Blogging tips?
05/07Welcome to the world of blogging. ;-)
For your first question, the answer is, it varies. Sometimes, I bang out an entry in a few minutes, whereas others can take quite some time (which I will compose in a text editor and then copy into my blog).
For your second point, for blogs, I have a blogs folder in my bookmarks bar and use the "Open in Tabs" feature to open them all. Going through them takes no time.
My weblog is a home-brew that I tossed together in my spare time (of which little actually exists).
For reference, I'm at : www.wtl.technomages.net/ -
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Re: Blogging tips?
05/07WTL, I concur with writing in a Text Editor. The smaller composing box I'm using with Typepad sometimes gets in the way of my composing. I also played with organizing some of bookmarks using Safari's tabbing capabilities. I'm also now signed up and using Bloglines which helps in letting me know which blog sites have posted something new.
WTL, thanks for your feedback. -
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05/07Try to post daily.
I'm really shocking at it, but if you do, it will boost your traffic, and keep people coming back.
if you are looking to gen a decent amount of traffic, there are *stacks* of tools out there.. the one that I am using at the moment is www.blogexplosion.com It seems OK.
It's good if you can come up with something different about your blog. It's hard, being that *everyone* seems to blog these day's, but it is always good to read something different.
Not really helpful at all, but my excuse is that it is 6am, and my shift doesnt finish for another hour :P
Rock out!
<3 marsie
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Re: Blogging tips?
05/07Thanks Bridle, I'll check it out. One of things that held me from starting a blog was that there seemed to be so many out there. So I decided I would treat the blog like a work of art--that I'd do it for me and whatever extra I get as a result it will be a gift.
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Re: Blogging tips?
05/07I usually just point and go, a couple of minutes tops. Occasionally I'll actually put together a few links and some glue text. A couple of short posts and one meaty one a day seem to be what makes a blog 'alive'.
Subscribing to your own blog and comments in an rss reader is a goodthink, as is tracking ongoing multi-blog converstions ...
DoublePlusBloglines. I often remander links into the bloglines blog and return to mine them (mostly by subscribing to my own rss feed). I use the clipping function less, but, it has come in handy.
Firefox extensions rock the house. CopyUrl+ and Linky are invaluable. Someone just ranted about
ScrapBook :: Firefox Extension [FAQ, Custmize]
amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/misc.php
Partway though a post I often poke at a couple of related tags for some juice ...
www.technorati.com/tag/
tagcentral.net/
