The first three months of blogging is hard.
I started this blog on October 10th, 2007. I started with a default Blogger template, with the same green Tic Tac theme that Miss Snark used.
Here is a sampling of the last three months, with running commentary.
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It’s not that I don’t want to, but because I’ve found that it’s almost always been more fruitful to wait for the dragon boat race to resolve itself.
Nobody makes it easy to move from one blog to any other, and in particular it gets worse the more experience you have. Not even WordPress’s Blogger import is enough.
So here are the Big Three, problems I’ve run up against when considering a move to WordPress, and that I hope WordPress resolves at some point.
And, in the interests of being fair, I will also list the Other Big Three, problems that have made me even consider moving away from Blogger to WordPress.
It’s not that I don’t want to, but because I’ve found that it’s almost always been more fruitful to wait for the dragon boat race to resolve itself.
Nobody makes it easy to move from one blog to any other, and in particular it gets worse the more experience you have. Not even WordPress’s Blogger import is enough.
So here are the Big Three, problems I’ve run up against when considering a move to WordPress, and that I hope WordPress resolves at some point.
And, in the interests of being fair, I will also list the Other Big Three, problems that have made me even consider moving away from Blogger to WordPress.
If you ever wondered why the old site loaded so slowly, take a gander at this.
Click on the image for the half-sized picture if you dare. Google wouldn’t let me upload the full-sized one.
Yeaaaah.
Now my site–after much application of elbow grease–is much cleaner and clearer. Here are more details about the redesign process.
I’ve also been inspired to take on a small (and completely unrelated) sekrit projekt of my own.
The 1-click button is my friend.
Sshhhhh.
I just saw over at Elizabeth Bear’s blog her announcement of Shadow Unit,
… Shadow Unit is, more or less, the website for a serial drama in internet form. Or possibly it’s a fan site for a TV show that doesn’t exist.
Intriguing details about Shadow Unit are at her blog, and there’s already a little content on the Shadow Unit site.
This project has been in the works for quite some time, apparently, and sounds like it will be quite interesting.
I must have been tapping into idea space, because this announcement came just a few days after I had finished my recent article about writing serials, and just shortly after I had finished the last article in the Writing on the Stage series, which deals in large part with serials.
I heart idea space.
Jeff Somers’ The Electric Church intrigued me because it messed with my world view. No, no, not the whole “church that converts you by putting you into a cyborg body because eternity is required to properly understand God” thing, I was with that.
No, it was the fact that the whole damn thing was a serial.
What the hell, it’s been a while since I posted something full of linkery dealing with the WGA strike, and it’s been a freaking fun day.
In what I can only call Extremely Stupid and other bad words, Google shut down the United Hollywood Blogger Blog at the request of the someone in favor of the AMPTP; they had flagged the WGA blog as “spam” and Google enacted the usual bureaucracy without a human eye review.
A flagged blog can no longer update until 4 days have passed for review. False flagging has actually been something of a problem, and is usually used as blog war tactics. Immature tactics.
Yeah. Well.
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Blogging to the Apples in Stereo is, I think, the closest to heaven that I will get to in this life.
Quietly dying. But still blogging for some reason. Apparently I will blog from my deathbed.
Over the past few weeks you may have noticed a few annoying things about my blog. I certainly did:
So I spent most of Sunday–that would be eight hours by now, I think–revamping this blog.
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