That's an interesting point,
@J-Sun . When I stumbled across this thread last year I'd kind of assumed it was just writerly blogs as the content was almost always
by writers and often (though not always) included topics related to writing, reading or the publishing industry. However, there isn't AFAIK any such injunction to do this and the thread is, after all, in the SFF Lounge so, going by the first post,
anything you're blogging about - writing, reading, plumbing, navel-gazing - would fit in here. From my observations it's worth noting that
anything includes the caveat
that's potentially of interest to others, and the thread regulars tend to post those things they think others might find most interesting/useful rather than simply
everything. Because, if someone likes your content enough, they'll check in regularly anyway.
Of course, this is just my interpretation of it, and others may well see it differently.
And can you talk about the "meta" of blogging or just what's blogged?
*Sigh* Everything's so "meta" these days. It's one of those words that's rapidly losing any meaning and just becoming a buzz-word.
But in this case, it describes perfectly what you mean. As for the question, short answer is I dunno. My guy feeling - ah, typo! -
gut* feeling is that if you wanted to touch on it a few times people would probably be fine with it, but if you wanted a really in-depth look at the art of blogging or technical stuff like CMS choice then you might be better off creating a thread especially for it. I'd suggest "I hate CSS"** as a good title!
Again, others might think differently though.
readers of blogs, find the "read more/continue reading" stuff a pro or a con.
You mean where you see the first para or whatever and have to click to see the whole post, right? I tend to view it as a necessary evil like paying taxes or the Rebel Alliance (I mean, they're always blowing stuff up, right? You build a few tiny little planet-killers, invest lots of time and man-hours and someone just comes along and kicks over the sandcastle. Most unsporting***). And for pages with lots of posts per page (or just very long posts) it does look a lot cleaner with only a short extract visible. Cripes, this is a long post - this should probably have a "more" option too (or a "God, make him stop!" option
).
Anyway, nice blog, J-Sun: looks clean and smart. And nice post, too, but that story "Rager in Space"... Surely it's not about what it sounds like. That's just my warped mind, right?
My own blog is still, well, in development. As it has been for 6 millennia. Still, as I'm planning on actually publishing something next year I should probably finish it. It took a month or two just to decide on CMS - in the end I went with Wordpress over Drupal because I want to do less coding outside of work not more! - so progress might be less than rapid.
* I repeated the typo again but it was just getting silly so I corrected it rather then keep writing the same thing again and again. And again.
** I worked with a guy who did lots of CSS coding and, rather predicably, he hated CSS. Because, well, it's just evil. He even had a mug which perfectly describes
why CSS is so awful:
CSS is Awesome mug.
**** Plus, quite a lot of the workforce was killed. It made advertising for staff for Death Star mark II a real challenge
