I’m using Posterous as my mobile blogging platform, if I want to post pictures to keep. It automatically adds them to Flickr too, and servers them to Twitter. I guess I could use Twitter as a mobil photo blogging tool, but its archive is less easy to use. Plus, Posterous is so quick and simple to post with, just send and email and be done with it. No loading times :)
I’ve added a link to Posterous in the sidebar, but I might add is as a RSS widget thing instead. Not sure what would work best :)
Blogs on your own domain with mixed language themes. I know not everyone might be interested or able to go into source files/theme files and translate, but the most common platforms come with translation files. Use them!
It’s fascinating how relaxing it can be to type, to write. To express yourself. I love it, which is why I have a blog I guess. Just finished my last exam for this term, translation. While I’m not very good at it, I always have problems to find words, it’s a nice exercise.
Sometimes I start a blog post just because I want to write.. It never works though, I can’t just write. I need a goal :p
Sometimes it’s tempting to blog anonymously. The freedom and relief in being able to write anything, get things out, put them on paper. And at the same time you’re not hurting anyone, since no one knows who you are. Nothing you say can be connected to the people you write about. You can also write silly things, stupid things, and no one will judge you. At least not the real you, because they can’t reach you.
The downside is feedback, and acknowledgement. I still want feedback and want to be seen, of course. To get that, you need to be “famous”, you need to write things people like to read. And that kinda destroys the purpose of writing anonymously, at least for me. The only reason I would write anonymously would be to write things I need to write.
I don’t know.
Today has been a quite productive day, I finished the most boring part about my essay, just the hardest part left to do, writing down the result, analysis and discussion. Hopefully I can get that at least started tomorrow. If I can hope, I also hope I will have read more than half of Huckleberry Finn by tomorrow night. Doesn’t seem too realistic. :P
Being moody takes energy. Sleep gives energy. Easy solution: write blog posts instead of sleeping.
I’m looking for some kind of tool or design that can help me microblog. I love the concept of small, often trivial, updates about your life and thoughts, and the possibility for others to comment on them. I do this all the time on the blog, but the design is a bit clunky for that, since it needs to work for longer posts too. It would be nicer to have a separate blog/tool to use for those micro updates, like I do with Facebook and the status updates. I just want a more free format than Facebook.
I have used Jaiku, Twitter, Bloggy and Facebook, but the problem with the first three have been that none of my friends use them. It feels a bit pointless to shout silly things about your life out in the empty cyberspace :) It would feel less silly if it was on my own domain, or if I knew there were friends listening, I think. As I said, Facebook works and it is quite fun, but it’s not as free as I want it to be.
I want this blog to have the more lengthy posts, and separate it from the mini updates about life. Maybe it would be enough just to create different categories, I don’t know, I’m not sure how I want this to look yet.
Tips? Ideas?
Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about writing, and blogs. Why do people write, why do they write on blogs, what keeps them going? Why do I write?
I feel good when I write. I get to put words on thoughts and share them. Since I think so (too) much, it can get quite messy. I write for my self, it is I who care whether I write or not. But, ultimately, I really do care about the people who read. I would love to have a bunch of regular readers, and commenters. But I’m not ready to write what people want to read. I’d love to be interesting, but I’m not going to change or fight for it.
Most of the blogs I read are personal blogs. Those I enjoy the most are the ones who share tidbits of their life, while still not only writing “This is what I wore today”. They go deeper, write about things that interests me, like friends, photography, choices in life. Some of them seems to write just like me, what they find in their mind today, but most of them seems to put more thought into what to write.
Where do they get the energy? What I really want to know is how they get satisfaction out of blogging without feeling strained or forced. Is it so simple as to stop caring about who is reading? Or is it the opposite, they know their readers and write their posts accordingly? I doubt it is the latter, but it’s not impossible.
Of course, no one has exactly the same reasons as anyone else.
Sometimes, blogging feels a bit sad. It feels like standing in a corner, talking to yourself, without anyone listening. In real life, that would be called sad, or stupid. Why talk if no one is interested in listening. I don’t know the answer, I can’t think of one.
I’ve updated some small design things on my blog theme, fixed some neat plugins (Lighter Menus is lovely!), updated my About-page and generally tweaked things to be a bit closer to perfect. :) I can’t decide if I like the second sidebar enough, or if I should just incoprporate it all into a single sidebar.
On another note, I’ve started a Swedish link dump/thoughts dump, which means there will probably (hopefully?) not be any more Swedish posts here. Just too much of a hassle to translate back and forth.
I’ve also considered making a blog roll. The blogs I read almost every day are so many they probably wouldn’t fit on a sidebar (without years of scrolling), so I’m thinking a separate page for it may work. Seeing as I have over 100 blogs in Google Reader so far, it is a long list and a lot of work to get it done. Is it really worth it? I add and remove blogs every week.. But I still feel I want to give something to those blogs (writers..) I really like.
I’ve started building my own WordPress theme. I’ve bought a domain and some hosting, and I will probably move this blog over there later. But first, I want to finish the theme so I have something personal, and neat-looking, to move it to. Templates made by others are great, but they aren’t mine :) Plus, I’m having quite fun while building the template.
The problem is to find a design I like. I know I love black, grey and purple, but I also love blue and green. I’m not great with art and such, so I will never be able to make one of those really flashy and beautiful themes. And I can’t decide what’s better, really beautiful or “homemade”. Since I’m not willing to spend a life time on learning to make it all flashy, I’m guessing it will be simple and homemade. If I don’t get it finished soon, I might cave in and pick a finished theme after all. I’m impatient, and the important part isn’t the personal look, but the text, the ability to write and publish stuff.
I can’t decide! I hate decisions! :P
Welcome! I usually go by the name Stylva, Anja or Ylva, but the last is my real name. This was once my primary blog, but is now mainly aimed at gaming, coding and Wordpress. I play a lot of Aion and used to play Guild Wars and World of Warcraft, and I really like Wordpress and theme building :)
If you would like to read more of me, I write in Swedish at tumtum.se.