…it kinda stops the spontaneous blurtings. That may be a good thing of course.
Finally caught up with the BugPowder blog backlog – I’m sure I’ve missed stuff so feel free to tell me again. I’ve still not done my Caption report – maybe I’ll just list all the other Caption reports but that’s what I did last year… Oh, and there’s an article I’m supposed to be writing for Baz at Engine Comics‘ Rough Guide to Self Publishing about BugPowder which is due in, ooh, two days. Maybe by outing my failure to get this done in public I’ll actually do it.
Also on a comics note, I did Phil Hall a favour and sorted out the RSS feed for his new Movers and Shakers gossip blog as well as tidying up a few rogue template issues. He was reluctant to mess with the guts himself and having seen them I understand why. It’s easy to knock Blogger but this kinda has me worried. When I started out using Blogger in 2000 the template system was simple and as such I taught myself a lot about templates and what I later learned were modular content management systems. I owe Blogger a lot – without the service I wouldn’t be the blogging guru/help-desk I am now. However, if I was starting out today I probably wouldn’t get further than selecting pre-designed templates and leaving it at that. The learning curve has gotten steep again and that’s no good thing.
(If anyone who knows me wants help on this kind of thing don’t hesitate to ask. It’s probably just a five minute job and if it isn’t I can always just say no.)
On a more positive note, have you noticed how most of the blogs that really break out into the mainstream consciousness tend to be hosted on blogspot with standard layouts? Dear Raed, Bell De Jour, etc. Not only does this mean when they get millions of visitors they don’t run up bandwidth bills but it also says a lot about content over style. Something we should all perhaps think about more often maybe…
Right, now I have to be off to the pub. Sorry Baz!