What did you blog about today?

Nice Jo,

Ill check this out when I get home! Amazed at the amount you blog!

Anyway I am in the process of launching a website I have been working on since Christmas (for a customer). So my evenings become my own again. Hopefully I will start blogging and reviewing again this weekend!
 
SilentRoamer said:
Nice Jo,

Ill check this out when I get home! Amazed at the amount you blog!

Anyway I am in the process of launching a website I have been working on since Christmas (for a customer). So my evenings become my own again. Hopefully I will start blogging and reviewing again this weekend!
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I just quite enjoy blogging. :D
 
Nice piece, Jo. I'm not a natural salesman (I was confounded, but pleased, when a recent trip to the optician involved the lady there practically talking me into writing down the book title [and pen name] for her teenage son), and it's difficult to know when to shut up and when to keep banging on about something. I err on the side of quietness, or try to.
 
thaddeus6th said:
Nice piece, Jo. I'm not a natural salesman (I was confounded, but pleased, when a recent trip to the optician involved the lady there practically talking me into writing down the book title [and pen name] for her teenage son), and it's difficult to know when to shut up and when to keep banging on about something. I err on the side of quietness, or try to.
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Ha! Everyone who knows me has my business card. :D (But I've had to promote the consultancy for years and am used to it.)
 
Juliana said:
'The ultimate Catch-22'. Yup! Pretty much. Good post, Jo.

By the way, blogging question: does anyone back up their blog? And how? I do by simply copy/pasting posts into a word file. But was wondering if there are better, more tech-savvy ways to do it. :)
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um, no. I should think about that, I guess...
 
I write mine in Open Office, then copy and paste to the blog.

I haven't done that for my website's writing blog (which is largely writing updates, progress, and the odd free story) because the update nature means it's mostly recent and relevant or older (and not so much).

Another catch-22 is self-publishing and reviews. Get a load of good ones, people think you've got friends and family to do it. Get a load of bad ones, people think your book's rubbish.
 
Most 'paid for' blogs on your own domain will offer you the back up opportunity. Or you can install a plug-in dependant on what blog software you are using. If you are using free hosted accounts, there may be a back up option in the dashboard area but often content you post on a free site belongs to the site owner and you won't get that facility. (Insert dull warning about reading T&C's for EVERYTHING you sign up for here.)
 
Juliana said:
Yeah, no plug-ins for me, I use the free wordpress option (with my own domain name). Never mind, will continue to copy/paste. :)
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I use self hosted WP so maybe it's different, but all the content is stored in a database, so I backup the database to my machine and then removable storage. Plus I take copy/paste of individual posts as a belt and braces.
 
Got to admit, I'm a little proud of the description of Lara Croft as a gun-toting psychopath whose twin hobbies are grave-robbing and homicide :p
 
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