homepage
  roll on christmas  
click here to find out more about ship of fools click here to sign up for the ship of fools newsletter click here to support ship of fools
community the mystery worshipper gadgets for god caption competition foolishness features ship stuff
discussion boards live chat cafe avatars frequently-asked questions the ten commandments gallery private boards register for the boards
 
Ship of Fools


Post new thread  Post a reply
My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home
   - Printer-friendly view Next oldest thread   Next newest thread
» Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » Shipmates who blog (Page 8)

 - Email this page to a friend or enemy.  
Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 
 
Source: (consider it) Thread: Shipmates who blog
WhateverTheySay
Shipmate
# 16598

 - Posted      Profile for WhateverTheySay     Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I use Blogspot

--------------------
I'm not lost, I just don't know where I am going

Posts: 872 | From: Lost in Space, without a map | Registered: Aug 2011  |  IP: Logged
The Great Gumby

Ship's Brain Surgeon
# 10989

 - Posted      Profile for The Great Gumby   Author's homepage   Email The Great Gumby   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I'm a Wordpress guy, and find it very easy to use, with a well-managed ready-made community to share ideas and discuss with.

And please forgive the following, but I think this is an appropriate place for a quiet moment of genuinely astonished blog-related pleasure. Not so long ago, in a forum far, far away, I dropped in a quick link to one of my recent posts to illustrate a point I was making - something I generally try not to do, but every so often I find that I'm discussing something I only just wrote about, so it would be daft to repeat the same thing when I could just use a link.

Anyway, following that, someone sent me a message to thank me for the link, and to say how much they'd liked it. I replied with a very British, foot-shuffling "glad you liked it, I always feel self-conscious about plugging my writing" sort of thing, and then came the punchline:

"Oh, you're the author? Wow! I didn't realise! I feel like I've almost touched celebrity now!"

[Eek!] [Hot and Hormonal]

Eventually, I picked my jaw up off the floor. Someone went out of their way to say how much they liked the post, without even knowing that I wrote it! I'd always assumed that anyone who said nice things about my blog was just being kind, or applying "friend-level" standards of criticism. I don't know how to handle this - in a way, it's quite unsettling.

Of course, I'm now wondering if it's a wind-up, and I'm in danger of obsessing over other phrases from the exchange that sound like they're hiding slightly more negative thoughts. My blog's "generally very well written"? Why only generally? I bet it's that post I rushed off a month or so ago, I should never have hit Publish on it, certainly not without some brutal editing and a complete change of emphasis. Oh God, I'm such a failure!

In summary, I think I'm a hopeless case. [Frown]

--------------------
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. - Richard Feynman

A letter to my son about death

Posts: 5382 | From: Home for shot clergy spouses | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged
marzipan
Shipmate
# 9442

 - Posted      Profile for marzipan   Author's homepage   Email marzipan   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Hey Gumby - I just realised that you're on my 'list of blogs to read' and though I don't read it very often, I think you write well too. (And tho I knew it was a shippie's blog, I'd forgotten who!)

I remembered to update my blogs (crafty and cake) recently so I thought I'd tell you all in case anyone wants to read my ramblings about cake and fabric!

(links in sig)

[ 29. August 2012, 11:35: Message edited by: cheesymarzipan ]

--------------------
formerly cheesymarzipan.
Now containing 50% less cheese

Posts: 917 | From: nowhere in particular | Registered: May 2005  |  IP: Logged
Boadicea Trott
Shipmate
# 9621

 - Posted      Profile for Boadicea Trott   Email Boadicea Trott   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I thought I might mention that I blog too :-)

My main blog, running since 2004, with photos, book reviews and general musings is at The Garden Window
My writing blog, including the saga of Babushka Barbara the Biter of Bialystok and the Babushka's Guide to Life is at MiscellaneousMumblings
[Biased]

--------------------
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

Posts: 563 | From: Roaming the World in my imagination..... | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged
Miffy

Ship's elephant
# 1438

 - Posted      Profile for Miffy   Author's homepage     Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Boadicea Trott:
I thought I might mention that I blog too :-)

My main blog, running since 2004, with photos, book reviews and general musings is at The Garden Window
My writing blog, including the saga of Babushka Barbara the Biter of Bialystok and the Babushka's Guide to Life is at MiscellaneousMumblings
[Biased]

Thanks Boadicea. I've added yours to my list.

Going way back, I was very taken by the idea of a prayer shawl. Did you ever get round to making one?

--------------------
"I don't feel like smiling." "You're English dear; fake it!" (Colin Firth "Easy Virtue")
Growing Greenpatches

Posts: 4739 | From: The Kitchen | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged
Jengie jon

Semper Reformanda
# 273

 - Posted      Profile for Jengie jon   Author's homepage   Email Jengie jon   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I am starting a new blog (well I started it in August but the first blog was always going to be a long time before the second). It is a set of articles I am writing for my congregation's magazine. They will come out in the months that there is a magazine for. They come out of one of the strands of my thesis that people seem to get rather keen on. I have called it "Reformed Practical Piety" and might be approximately about the current experience of Reformed Spiritual Tradition within the United Reformed Church. They are short articles (less 500 words) as aimed for a church magazine and they are on topics I choose as I feel led.

If you want to read it, then it is viewed here.

Jengie

--------------------
"To violate a persons ability to distinguish fact from fantasy is the epistemological equivalent of rape." Noretta Koertge

Back to my blog

Posts: 20894 | From: city of steel, butterflies and rainbows | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged
ChastMastr
Shipmate
# 716

 - Posted      Profile for ChastMastr   Author's homepage   Email ChastMastr   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I post about comics and stuff in mine! Link is in my sig.

--------------------
My essays on comics continuity: http://chastmastr.tumblr.com/tagged/continuity

Posts: 14068 | From: Clearwater, Florida | Registered: Jul 2001  |  IP: Logged
Boadicea Trott
Shipmate
# 9621

 - Posted      Profile for Boadicea Trott   Email Boadicea Trott   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Hi Miffy, I did indeed make my prayer shawl, though I don't use it quite as much as I had intended - it is heavy-weight wool and very, very warm!

Blogging has been rather sporadic due to a lengthy period of ill-health, but I am hoping to do rather better from now on [Angel]

--------------------
X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett

Posts: 563 | From: Roaming the World in my imagination..... | Registered: Jun 2005  |  IP: Logged
Gwai
Shipmate
# 11076

 - Posted      Profile for Gwai   Email Gwai   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
And I too have now given in to blogging, so I figured I'd join here and post as well as sometimes read. Link is in my signature, if you are interested. (And if you aren't.)

--------------------
A master of men was the Goodly Fere,
A mate of the wind and sea.
If they think they ha’ slain our Goodly Fere
They are fools eternally.


Posts: 11914 | From: Chicago | Registered: Feb 2006  |  IP: Logged
Trudy Scrumptious

BBE Shieldmaiden
# 5647

 - Posted      Profile for Trudy Scrumptious   Author's homepage   Email Trudy Scrumptious   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
As I think I said somewhere way up this thread, I've been blogging since 2006, but recently (i.e. today) I started something new: a vlog (video blog). I'm going to post every Wednesday (hence the name "Writing Wednesday") about writing. I've always felt the weakness of my blog is that it's very scattered, topically -- I just jump around from one subject to another depending on what I'm thinking of that day. The vlog is going to be more focused, so maybe I'll get a few people following who are interested in writing.

Here's the first episode.

--------------------
Books and things.

I lied. There are no things. Just books.

Posts: 7428 | From: Closer to Paris than I am to Vancouver | Registered: Mar 2004  |  IP: Logged
balaam

Making an ass of myself
# 4543

 - Posted      Profile for balaam   Author's homepage   Email balaam   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
Here's the first episode.

I always imagined you with longer hair, like your avatar. The batman top, geeky but cool, I like it.

--------------------
Last ever sig ...

blog

Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged
Karl: Liberal Backslider
Shipmate
# 76

 - Posted      Profile for Karl: Liberal Backslider   Author's homepage   Email Karl: Liberal Backslider   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I blog - http://agnosticchristian.wordpress.com

When I can be arsed, that is.

--------------------
Might as well ask the bloody cat.

Posts: 17938 | From: Chesterfield | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged
Trudy Scrumptious

BBE Shieldmaiden
# 5647

 - Posted      Profile for Trudy Scrumptious   Author's homepage   Email Trudy Scrumptious   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by balaam:
quote:
Originally posted by Trudy Scrumptious:
Here's the first episode.

I always imagined you with longer hair, like your avatar. The batman top, geeky but cool, I like it.
I once had longer hair but at my age can no longer be bovvered. Watch for my "You Never Forget Your First Doctor" Doctor Who T-shirt in a future episode ... I figure if people are not that interested in writing, I can keep them entertained with my panoply of geeky tees.

--------------------
Books and things.

I lied. There are no things. Just books.

Posts: 7428 | From: Closer to Paris than I am to Vancouver | Registered: Mar 2004  |  IP: Logged
Earwig

Pincered Beastie
# 12057

 - Posted      Profile for Earwig   Author's homepage   Email Earwig   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Gwai:
And I too have now given in to blogging, so I figured I'd join here and post as well as sometimes read. Link is in my signature, if you are interested. (And if you aren't.)

Gwai: I love your blog! The mention of the fakefoods made me laugh out loud. [Big Grin]
Posts: 3120 | From: Yorkshire | Registered: Nov 2006  |  IP: Logged
Kelly Alves

Bunny with an axe
# 2522

 - Posted      Profile for Kelly Alves   Email Kelly Alves   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Trudy! Awesome!

I just realized that I had an entry stickied on my livejournal (found in sig) that prevented my new entries from showing up; have rectified that. I put a bunch of entries from my Woman's Spirituality class blog up; would totally welcome thoughts. The class is amazing.

[ 12. October 2012, 08:02: Message edited by: Kelly Alves ]

--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.

Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002  |  IP: Logged
balaam

Making an ass of myself
# 4543

 - Posted      Profile for balaam   Author's homepage   Email balaam   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
Trudy! Awesome!

I just realized that I had an entry stickied on my livejournal (found in sig) that prevented my new entries from showing up; have rectified that. I put a bunch of entries from my Woman's Spirituality class blog up; would totally welcome thoughts. The class is amazing.

First thought is - can you sort out the formatting please.

Long lines of small text are not only bad for dyslexics, but make the baby Jesus cry. There seems to be some good stuff in there, but I can't read them.

--------------------
Last ever sig ...

blog

Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged
Miffy

Ship's elephant
# 1438

 - Posted      Profile for Miffy   Author's homepage     Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Kelly, Agreed. I've just given in and got myself fitted out with varifocal glasses - really can't cope with large blocks of very small print. There's some good stuff there, yes, which it'd be a shame to miss out on.

Also, I'm unable to put the blog on my list - keep getting a message saying there's no feed linked to yours.

[Smile]

--------------------
"I don't feel like smiling." "You're English dear; fake it!" (Colin Firth "Easy Virtue")
Growing Greenpatches

Posts: 4739 | From: The Kitchen | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged
Kelly Alves

Bunny with an axe
# 2522

 - Posted      Profile for Kelly Alves   Email Kelly Alves   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Easy enough-- I just copy-pasted it from the school message board without editing.

--------------------
I cannot expect people to believe “
Jesus loves me, this I know” of they don’t believe “Kelly loves me, this I know.”
Kelly Alves, somewhere around 2003.

Posts: 35076 | From: Pura Californiana | Registered: Mar 2002  |  IP: Logged
Pomona
Shipmate
# 17175

 - Posted      Profile for Pomona   Email Pomona   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I keep meaning to blog but have no idea what about or how to get any kind of readership - but the urge to write is still there. Perhaps I should go back to pen and paper and keep an old-fashioned diary.

--------------------
Consider the work of God: Who is able to straighten what he has bent? [Ecclesiastes 7:13]

Posts: 5319 | From: UK | Registered: Jun 2012  |  IP: Logged
alienfromzog

Ship's Alien
# 5327

 - Posted      Profile for alienfromzog   Email alienfromzog   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Jade Constable:
I keep meaning to blog but have no idea what about or how to get any kind of readership - but the urge to write is still there. Perhaps I should go back to pen and paper and keep an old-fashioned diary.

Creating a blog is really easy. There are many software options to choose from, but I've found Google's Blogger works for me.

In terms of getting a following, I've no idea.

AFZ

--------------------
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.
[Sen. D.P.Moynihan]

An Alien's View of Earth - my blog (or vanity exercise...)

Posts: 2150 | From: Zog, obviously! Straight past Alpha Centauri, 2nd planet on the left... | Registered: Dec 2003  |  IP: Logged
Dormouse

Glis glis – Ship's rodent
# 5954

 - Posted      Profile for Dormouse   Email Dormouse   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Jade Constable:
I keep meaning to blog but have no idea what about or how to get any kind of readership - but the urge to write is still there. Perhaps I should go back to pen and paper and keep an old-fashioned diary.

I've got two blogs (as yiu can see from my sig) I don't really care about Followers, but it's great if people comment. I am going to take part in a "Blog Event" next January with a goal to increase "Followers"...you might be interested in joining in. I blogged about it here should you be interested.

--------------------
What are you doing for Lent?
40 days, 40 reflections, 40 acts of generosity. Join the #40acts challenge for #Lent and let's start a movement. www.40acts.org.uk

Posts: 3042 | From: 'twixt les Bois Noirs & Les Monts de la Madeleine | Registered: May 2004  |  IP: Logged
Miffy

Ship's elephant
# 1438

 - Posted      Profile for Miffy   Author's homepage     Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Dormouse, thanks so much for this. I might sign up myself, if it's not too late.

Jade, I'm another poster who finds blogger a good platform to blog from - my old one was on typepad. Maybe you could have an online blog and a paper and pencil diary or journal!

--------------------
"I don't feel like smiling." "You're English dear; fake it!" (Colin Firth "Easy Virtue")
Growing Greenpatches

Posts: 4739 | From: The Kitchen | Registered: Oct 2001  |  IP: Logged
Chorister

Completely Frocked
# 473

 - Posted      Profile for Chorister   Author's homepage     Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
My blog is supposed to be about (mostly the choral music in) my own parish church. But recently it seems to be more about cathedrals I've visited. It will start to look as if I'm shirking on the job [Paranoid]

I got into blogging through the wibsite (as did many shipmates) - it's a good way in if you're not used to the idea of blogging. And you can keep up with other shipmates by reading theirs on the same site.

--------------------
Retired, sitting back and watching others for a change.

Posts: 34626 | From: Cream Tealand | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged
Horatio Harumph
Shipmate
# 10855

 - Posted      Profile for Horatio Harumph     Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I'm a wordpress blogger.
Having used a few various blogging site WP so far is my fav.

You can find my blog at www.fragmentz.org
and my most recent blog is at the top, about being a survivor and the whole jimmy savile thing.
some thoughts on being a survivor and jimmy savile

--------------------
www.helenblogs.com
@helen_a13

Chocolate is proof that God wants us to be happy.

Posts: 2857 | Registered: Jan 2006  |  IP: Logged
Pomona
Shipmate
# 17175

 - Posted      Profile for Pomona   Email Pomona   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Any shipmates (Catholic or otherwise) know of any liberal (regarding Dead Horses at least) Catholic bloggers worth following?

--------------------
Consider the work of God: Who is able to straighten what he has bent? [Ecclesiastes 7:13]

Posts: 5319 | From: UK | Registered: Jun 2012  |  IP: Logged
balaam

Making an ass of myself
# 4543

 - Posted      Profile for balaam   Author's homepage   Email balaam   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
A question to Wibsite users (or other Wordpress users):

Some users have a site icon, which appears each time they post (as avatars do here). However when I try to upload an icon at Users/Site Icon in Dashboard* I get the error message: You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.

Any ideas how to get round this?

.

*Wibsite users should understand this gibberish.

--------------------
Last ever sig ...

blog

Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged
Michael Snow
Shipmate
# 16363

 - Posted      Profile for Michael Snow   Author's homepage         Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I, too, like wordpress, but have not been at it long, and with only a weekly post at best. Now that harvest is over, will have more time.

http://textsincontext.wordpress.com/

--------------------
http://spurgeonwarquotes.wordpress.com/

Posts: 62 | From: S. Dak./ Romania | Registered: Apr 2011  |  IP: Logged
Evensong
Shipmate
# 14696

 - Posted      Profile for Evensong   Author's homepage   Email Evensong   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
I'm looking for a blog template that lets me post long posts that are abbreviated on the home page with a direction to "see more" if you want to see the whole post.

I use wordpress but haven't been able to find a template to allow that function. Do any of you wordpress users know one that allows this?

I've seen one recently on blogspot. Can any blogspotters recommend one that does this if I can't find one on wordpress?

Ta very much. [Smile]

--------------------
a theological scrapbook

Posts: 9481 | From: Australia | Registered: Apr 2009  |  IP: Logged
balaam

Making an ass of myself
# 4543

 - Posted      Profile for balaam   Author's homepage   Email balaam   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
I'm looking for a blog template that lets me post long posts that are abbreviated on the home page with a direction to "see more" if you want to see the whole post.

I use wordpress

It depends on your Wordpress theme. Some allow it, some don't.

I'm assuming that the rest of Wordpress works the same as the Wordpress powered Wibsite from here on:

In the Dashboard click on Settings then on Reading.

In the page which appears, where it says, "For each article in a feed, show * Full text * Summary" Select Summary.

If you can't do that you need a new theme which allows it.

--------------------
Last ever sig ...

blog

Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged
Trudy Scrumptious

BBE Shieldmaiden
# 5647

 - Posted      Profile for Trudy Scrumptious   Author's homepage   Email Trudy Scrumptious   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
I'm looking for a blog template that lets me post long posts that are abbreviated on the home page with a direction to "see more" if you want to see the whole post.

I use wordpress but haven't been able to find a template to allow that function. Do any of you wordpress users know one that allows this?

I've seen one recently on blogspot. Can any blogspotters recommend one that does this if I can't find one on wordpress?

Ta very much. [Smile]

When I create a new post in Wordpress, at any point in the post I can drop in the "More" command. This creates a cutoff point in the post; everything above that cutoff will be visible on the front page, then there'll be link that says "Continue reading" and if you click that you get the whole post. I thought this was the way it worked for all Wordpress themes.

--------------------
Books and things.

I lied. There are no things. Just books.

Posts: 7428 | From: Closer to Paris than I am to Vancouver | Registered: Mar 2004  |  IP: Logged
Evensong
Shipmate
# 14696

 - Posted      Profile for Evensong   Author's homepage   Email Evensong   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Thank you balaam and Trudy. [Smile]

I have tried that "Reading" and "summary" setting balaam, but it doesn't work. So I assume my particular theme doesn't carry the function. Which is why I was wondering which ones did. Tho you'd think if it's an option in the settings, it should work right?

Trudy. Most helpful!!! Never seen that function before. Played around with it a bit and having a few hiccups but I hope to be able to get it to work when I have a bit more time to read the directions on the faq. Cheers!

--------------------
a theological scrapbook

Posts: 9481 | From: Australia | Registered: Apr 2009  |  IP: Logged
balaam

Making an ass of myself
# 4543

 - Posted      Profile for balaam   Author's homepage   Email balaam   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
quote:
Originally posted by Evensong:
I have tried that "Reading" and "summary" setting balaam, but it doesn't work. So I assume my particular theme doesn't carry the function.

It may do. Once it is set to "summary" you should get a box under the one in which you write the blog marked "Excerpt." Copy and paste part of your blog into this and see what happens,

Again it depends on the WordPress theme as to whether it works.

--------------------
Last ever sig ...

blog

Posts: 9049 | From: Hen Ogledd | Registered: May 2003  |  IP: Logged
Evensong
Shipmate
# 14696

 - Posted      Profile for Evensong   Author's homepage   Email Evensong   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Hhhhmmmnnnn.....can't see anything marked "excerpt". [Paranoid] You mean when you make a new post?

--------------------
a theological scrapbook

Posts: 9481 | From: Australia | Registered: Apr 2009  |  IP: Logged
Evensong
Shipmate
# 14696

 - Posted      Profile for Evensong   Author's homepage   Email Evensong   Send new private message       Edit/delete post   Reply with quote 
Hang five! stumbled across it by accident. Thanks. [Smile]

--------------------
a theological scrapbook

Posts: 9481 | From: Australia | Registered: Apr 2009  |  IP: Logged



Pages in this thread: 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 
 
Post new thread  Post a reply Close thread   Feature thread   Move thread   Delete thread Next oldest thread   Next newest thread
 - Printer-friendly view
Go to:

Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement

© Ship of Fools 2016

Powered by Infopop Corporation
UBB.classicTM 6.5.0

 
follow ship of fools on twitter
buy your ship of fools postcards
sip of fools mugs from your favourite nautical website
 
 
  ship of fools