Blogspot?

[fangirl_says]

Hey, does anyone here use Blogspot extensively? I have one here, though obviously I haven't used it much so far. I'm toying with the idea of using it as a public, fandom-only blog, but I'm not familiar enough with it to have any clue how to best use it. I mean, without flists, how do people know you have posted? How do they read you? It annoys me when I'm completely clueless. *grumps* I did just realize that Semagic would allow me to cross-post to Blogspot, which would simplify the posting part.

Anyway, I'm not planning to stop posting here (or IJ or JF or...you get the picture) or anything; I'll continue posting most fandom stuff publically and most personal stuff flocked (except when I'm an idiot who FORGETS TO LOCK THE PERSONAL STUFF ARGH.)

Comments

[kimyoo-films.livejournal.com]

I use blogspot: http://kimyoo-films.blogspot.com, but I have no idea how many people read it.

There's no friend's list, but you can add feeds to the side of your blog. I have several blogs fed to mine, but most of my friends are still on LJ so I still read, and respond, here. You can also set up a feed for the posts you make on Blogspot so that they can be picked up by anyone.

There's a thing called a blogroll, but I don't know what that's all about or how that works. If I want more people to read my blog, I guess it's something I should look into...but I inevitably either lose interest or completely forget about stuff like that.

[kimyoo-films.livejournal.com]

Semagic can work with Blogspot, but you can't use it with Blogspot AND LiveJournal, by the looks of it. I barely post to LJ anymore, but I don't want to lose the ability to through Semagic so I've been posting to my Blogspot via e-mail.

The formatting's better with Outlook Express, if you can believe it, than with Gmail, but it's hard to embed photos or video. I have to go back and edit posts to do that, and add tags. Just something to consider.

[fangirlsays.livejournal.com]

Ooh...somehow, I didn't realize you could post to blogspot via email. But OE's formatting works better? Huh. That's kinda weird. *g*

[fangirlsays.livejournal.com]

I really do need to learn how to set up and use feeds. See, I think part of my reason for wanting to branch out off of LJ and its clones is that I don't /need/ to know how to do any of that to use LJ; I think it's making me lazy about learning other stuff.

I haven't heard of a blogroll; I'll have to check into that, too.

[aeb.livejournal.com]

I haven't looked into this specifically, but when I run across a "blogroll," it appears to be a list of links in the sidebar.

I suspect getting beyond them means getting into feed-readers. {smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin