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.

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

I have a blogger account also, but mainly to leave comments in other peoples'. I find it more cumbersome than LJ, for both readers and writers, but my biggest concern with them is it being part of the Google empire. Those servers know enough about me as it is without starting to store information about what I write, who visits me, etc etc.

/paranoid

[wizardresden.livejournal.com]

I used to use blogspot a lot, but I find that LJ is a much better blogging platform, probably my favorite of all the non-hosted ones I've used. If I host my own, I usually use Wordpress simply due to its overwhelming support.

[onecheekyhobbit.livejournal.com]

I have one, but I'm not so good with it... but I'll help you fix yours up if you would like.. if you need a header or anything.

If all else I can link to you. :)

My blog is, onecheekyhobbit.blogspot.com

[mrstinkles.livejournal.com]

I've never been able to get to Blogspot from work. I don't think it's one of the websites "we" blocked (like youtube and e-bay), but maybe it is. (BTW, I've been able to get to photoBucket even tho' that's supposed to be blocked, too.)

My "real" blog is by WordPress, but it's not as comment-friendly as LJ.

But if you want to keep up to date with what friends are posting, I think you have to use RSS feeds. And since those require a modicum of effort on my part, I'm pretty bad about keeping up with them.

[helens78]

I read any and all Blogspot blogs I follow through Google Reader -- except for one that was invite-only, which I had to read at the site, and I'd just check that one every few days. I check Google Reader as religiously as I check LJ. :)

[aeb.livejournal.com]

Mine is here: http://aeb-anne.blogspot.com/ . I don't think I've mentioned it much; mainly when I first set it up. {smile}

Would you mind if I added you to my links-list there? {Smile}

Anne Elizabeth Baldwin

[almond-tiger.livejournal.com]

I have one:

http://jbrubacher.blogspot.com

It's my "uhhhhh professional?" blog. :) The people that I know read it use the rss feed or just bookmark it.

[cruel-illusion.livejournal.com]

I have a blogspot thing, but have never posted to it and don't quite get it anyway. Lol, if you figure it out, could you explain it to me? I've been considering using one to publicly post about what it's like teaching and such in a New Orleans Recovery School District.

[lila-blue-b.livejournal.com]

I have a blogspot blog here, which I use all the time... and so does my Latin prof here for all her classes and former students to post things on, and I post there constantly too. I use a blogroll on the side of my page to keep track of the people whose blogs I want to keep track of. Basically, I just check them every now and then to see if anything new has been posted and catch up. I don't use feeds because I've never been able to figure them out (although, I've also never really tried).

Recently, blogger has added a feature where you can click a box when you comment and have subsequent comments e-mailed to you, so you know if other people respond to your comments (before, you'd have to remember where you had commented and navigate back to it to see if people responded). In a lot of ways, blogger takes more work than lj ('cause you don't have a f-page to keep everyone's posts nice and organized, but the volume there tends to be less), and is much more public, but I still really like the format...