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Caryn Knits!
So, I've gone and created a new blog. Over on Blogger, actually. I wanted to see what it was like, what the differences in setup and use were like, so I created a new place to talk about my knitting and (maybe) spinning, and other such creative pursuits. I won't stop talking about stuff like that here, but I didn't want to spam my whole friends list with the stuff all the time, and I don't want to lock the posts down to a subset, either, so I can talk about stuff with people who aren't on my friends list. (It actually seems like an awful lot of crafters have craft-specific blogs, probably for the same reason). So, new blog. And the reason it's in Blogger? Mainly so that I can have a sidebar with "percent done" graphics for projects, which you can't do in LJ. *g*
Anyway, I thought I would try out Blogger, and it's just...different. It's just so much more broadcast than conversation. There's nothing like a friends' list there, no easy way to check the blogs of people you'd like to read, who are also using Blogger. There's no easy way to log in to blogger from your own page, so it seems like they assume you'll post something and then never look again. And, you're maybe two clicks away from making money by putting ads on your blog. There's no such thing as public vs. private posts. All in all much more "publishing" than "journal", and it's gotta be hard to build communities over there...
If you'd like to check it out, it's at CarynKnits. I've also created a syndicated feed for it on LJ - something else I wanted to try out (Blogger makes it ridiculously easy to create, LJ makes it ridiculously easy to add, so it's all good), and you can access it here
Anyway, I thought I would try out Blogger, and it's just...different. It's just so much more broadcast than conversation. There's nothing like a friends' list there, no easy way to check the blogs of people you'd like to read, who are also using Blogger. There's no easy way to log in to blogger from your own page, so it seems like they assume you'll post something and then never look again. And, you're maybe two clicks away from making money by putting ads on your blog. There's no such thing as public vs. private posts. All in all much more "publishing" than "journal", and it's gotta be hard to build communities over there...
If you'd like to check it out, it's at CarynKnits. I've also created a syndicated feed for it on LJ - something else I wanted to try out (Blogger makes it ridiculously easy to create, LJ makes it ridiculously easy to add, so it's all good), and you can access it here