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WhateverTheySay
Shipmate
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I use Blogspot
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The Great Gumby
Ship's Brain Surgeon
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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!"
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.
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marzipan
Shipmate
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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 ]
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Boadicea Trott
Shipmate
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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
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Miffy
Ship's elephant
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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
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?
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Jengie jon
Semper Reformanda
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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
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Back to my blog
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Boadicea Trott
Shipmate
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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
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Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
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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.
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I lied. There are no things. Just books.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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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.
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Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
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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.
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Earwig
Pincered Beastie
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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.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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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 ]
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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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.
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Miffy
Ship's elephant
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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.
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Kelly Alves
Bunny with an axe
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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.
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Pomona
Shipmate
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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]
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alienfromzog
Ship's Alien
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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
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An Alien's View of Earth - my blog (or vanity exercise...)
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Dormouse
Glis glis Ship's rodent
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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.
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Miffy
Ship's elephant
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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!
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Chorister
Completely Frocked
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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
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.
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Pomona
Shipmate
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Any shipmates (Catholic or otherwise) know of any liberal (regarding Dead Horses at least) Catholic bloggers worth following?
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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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?
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*Wibsite users should understand this gibberish.
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Evensong
Shipmate
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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.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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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.
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Trudy Scrumptious
BBE Shieldmaiden
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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.
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.
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Evensong
Shipmate
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Thank you balaam and Trudy.
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!
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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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.
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