For Frank Paynter's project, How Do You Blog?
My blogging follows no real schedule or discipline - other than when I go for more than three or four days without blogging which makes me feel obligated to keep the line open.
I therefore have no routine way of blogging.
So, my blogging is mostly impulsive, instantaneous front of mind stuff which seldom gets the questionable benefit of studious planning and drafting.
For the last couple of months I've been using WordPress, having moved on from Blogger and Movable Type respectively. I tend to like to use graphics whenever I can and usually tweak sizes and graphic formats in Photoshop CS 2 before uploading them using an OS X ftp app which goes by the name Transmit.
I place usually unnecessary importance in achieving some form of visual design balance in a blog posting, whether by using images with colours that go well (to my eye) with my template, or niceley shaped and spaced paragraphs - with the desired end result being a complete blog 'face' that looks well hung together, rather than just a loose or random assemblage of 'stuff'.
I have recently fallen in with the tagging crowd and I have abandoned categories as too clunky a method of obtaining some order and meta-structure to my blog. I love the free, make it up as you go along nature of tagging compared with the plan ahead approach required to achieve good categorization.
Rarely, when I put together a long post or a post which I care about, I occasionally go back and tidy up grammar adn spelling - mostly to make me sound all big and clever - an effect I rarely acheive first time out the traps. But mostly I don't erase, wholescale edit or modify posts.
Beyond that, I've long since held the belief that there's a whole other layer of unwitting effort, craft, creativity and substance to my blogging. I was wrong.
My blogging follows no real schedule or discipline - other than when I go for more than three or four days without blogging which makes me feel obligated to keep the line open.
I therefore have no routine way of blogging.
So, my blogging is mostly impulsive, instantaneous front of mind stuff which seldom gets the questionable benefit of studious planning and drafting.
For the last couple of months I've been using WordPress, having moved on from Blogger and Movable Type respectively. I tend to like to use graphics whenever I can and usually tweak sizes and graphic formats in Photoshop CS 2 before uploading them using an OS X ftp app which goes by the name Transmit.
I place usually unnecessary importance in achieving some form of visual design balance in a blog posting, whether by using images with colours that go well (to my eye) with my template, or niceley shaped and spaced paragraphs - with the desired end result being a complete blog 'face' that looks well hung together, rather than just a loose or random assemblage of 'stuff'.
I have recently fallen in with the tagging crowd and I have abandoned categories as too clunky a method of obtaining some order and meta-structure to my blog. I love the free, make it up as you go along nature of tagging compared with the plan ahead approach required to achieve good categorization.
Rarely, when I put together a long post or a post which I care about, I occasionally go back and tidy up grammar adn spelling - mostly to make me sound all big and clever - an effect I rarely acheive first time out the traps. But mostly I don't erase, wholescale edit or modify posts.
Beyond that, I've long since held the belief that there's a whole other layer of unwitting effort, craft, creativity and substance to my blogging. I was wrong.