RSSWhat’s this Blog About Then?
Mar 10 10
I have several subjects I want to write about, I started a couple of new blogs at Blogger, thinking that a single subject per blog was the way to go. But several of these topics will only get intermittent play from me so I thought maybe just a subject category on a larger blog would be better.
Another factor was that I was not completely happy with Blogger as a platform, there were new social media – synergies – I wanted to experiment with and Blogger just didn’t make them as easy to implement as I thought they could be. Ditto WordPress.com which I have used on and off over the years. Posterous has some neat posting features but not being able to really edit the templates and make it my own, soon bothered me.
I had this laundry list of features I wanted:
- smartphone screen friendliness;
- the ability to admin and post from a smartphone;
- a directory;
- static pages as well as blog posts;
- my own domain (I always recommend this to other but fluff it off for myself)
- serious integration with Twitter and other social media. I really want to see how blogs, readers, social media and search engines can all interact.
Anyway, the free hosted blog services just were not going to meet my needs. A WordPress blog on my own hosting and domain seemed the way to go. I’m a bit of a plugin addict, and WordPress is so popular that there are usually a dozen plugins to choose from for every need. (But note: there is not one H.P. Lovecraft plugin.)
Some blogging features I like:
- The ability to subscribe by email. A lot of internet users just do not understand about feed readers, but they do understand email and I think being able to be informed of new blog posts by email is important.
- Sending a tweet to Twitter automatically with each new blog post. Half the reason for me blogging is because there are some subjects that just cannot be handled in 140 characters.
- Automatic daily digest of all of my Tweets on the blog. Blog posts are permanent whereas Tweets soon fade but they gain a second life in an archive. Plus there is some linky goodness going on there – Google may or may not like it but tough – I like the synergy here.
So there you have it – nothing radical but I’m interested in what I can make of it.
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