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By: 8 Interesting things about ME!!!

8 Interesting things about ME!!! — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:10:34 +0000

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8 Interesting things about me — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:01:51 +0000

[...] this post that said ‘8 interesting things about me’. I was curious because my fellow blogger Jay over at online opportunity had written it. I have been following his work for some time now and [...]

By: Juggling Frogs

Juggling Frogs — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 21:57:19 +0000

Just the ability to use a full screen editor (rather than the little window Blogger gives) would be such an improvement.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:54:25 +0000

Jay wrote:

Now that I’ve stopped, it’s daunting to contemplate porting the thing over to another platform and messing with a new template.

The template would be an issue. The content will port over very easily, with Wordpress’ import from Blogger feature. You’ll just have to cleanup the category list afterward.

By: Juggling Frogs

Juggling Frogs — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:31:30 +0000

Jay,

THANK YOU!!! That’s a great idea. I have to sign up for a different e-mail client to do it, (I’m using Outlook XP, which doesn’t have that feature), but it might just be worth it.

Tyson,

It’s getting more and more tempting! I spent the first month and a half tinkering with the blog. Now that I’ve stopped, it’s daunting to contemplate porting the thing over to another platform and messing with a new template. {sigh}

Otherwise, I’d be there yesterday.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:26:28 +0000

Juggling Frogs –

Just come over to the DarkSide and WordPress will show you things you never thought were imaginable.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:45:44 +0000

You can do something similar by enabling the send-posts-by-email option and scheduling an email program to send at a specific date and time. There was a post about it at http://www.bloggerbuster.com/2007/07/how-to-schedule-blogger-posts-to-future.html

By: Juggling Frogs

Juggling Frogs — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:36:55 +0000

I wish Blogger would implement a way to future post. I’d love to build up a scheduled stockpile.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:06:18 +0000

Oh, as an example of how useful scheduled posting is, I was out of town this last weekend at a family reunion. But the posts kept being published right on schedule. Very handy for times when you just have to be away from the blog for a few days.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:58:15 +0000

Jay wrote:

On an unrelated note: I noticed that your posting is almost perfectly consistent over time. Do you post on a schedule? Do you throttle your posting frequency? How do you manage the posting such that it comes out so evenly spaced?

Two secret techniques: first, my two year old daughter has decided bed times are for babies, so I’m almost never on the computer until about 10:30pm, or after around 9am.

Second, I do use Wordpress’ ability to schedule posts for later publication. So when I get on the computer, I’m generally writing for a few days out and scheduling the post to appear.

My basic strategy has been to have the main post of the day show up around 11pm, and the secondary post, if any, show up in the morning around 8am. Email feeds go out around noon, so I try to make sure there aren’t too many posts in those.