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shoebox_dw) wrote2008-11-01 08:52 am
shoebox_dw) wrote2008-11-01 08:52 am
Bloggishness
So I was feeling vaguely depressed yesterday for several small reasons that need not concern us here...
...Well, OK, one of them had to do with the fact that my ouchy wisdom tooth now won't be coming out for three more weeks. Also, there was the rather unsettling discovery that a big chunk of those Statcounter hits I'd been cherishing were in fact mere random visits to friends pages. Yes, kids, I'm just that petty.
Anyhoo, I decided to frisk myself up a bit generally by setting up on WordPress. Pretty much the identical blog, mind; a mirror I suppose you'd call it. I plan on cross-posting for a good while yet, and maintaining my friendslinks for long past that.
It's only...well, I've been wanting to sort of step outside the LiveJournal mode for awhile now. I love a lot of the features here - the allowable visual creativity is amazing, for starters - but the overwhelming focus on community isn't really serving my goals, anymore. Basically I wanted to see what it felt like to be a Real Live Blogger. Eventually, I'd like to try hosting it on my own website, containing other writing as well.
That's the other part of the equation. I have given up on denying I like feedback. A lot. If I'm going to branch out wildly in all literary directions - well, I've got the ideas, I've almost got them organised, and the only excuse left is whether or not people in that wider world would be interested. I feel like the WordPress setup might be easier than LJ's to gauge that.
So...uh...yeah, as you were. Oh, if anybody knows of a good cross-poster or other WP widget, by all means share.
...Well, OK, one of them had to do with the fact that my ouchy wisdom tooth now won't be coming out for three more weeks. Also, there was the rather unsettling discovery that a big chunk of those Statcounter hits I'd been cherishing were in fact mere random visits to friends pages. Yes, kids, I'm just that petty.
Anyhoo, I decided to frisk myself up a bit generally by setting up on WordPress. Pretty much the identical blog, mind; a mirror I suppose you'd call it. I plan on cross-posting for a good while yet, and maintaining my friendslinks for long past that.
It's only...well, I've been wanting to sort of step outside the LiveJournal mode for awhile now. I love a lot of the features here - the allowable visual creativity is amazing, for starters - but the overwhelming focus on community isn't really serving my goals, anymore. Basically I wanted to see what it felt like to be a Real Live Blogger. Eventually, I'd like to try hosting it on my own website, containing other writing as well.
That's the other part of the equation. I have given up on denying I like feedback. A lot. If I'm going to branch out wildly in all literary directions - well, I've got the ideas, I've almost got them organised, and the only excuse left is whether or not people in that wider world would be interested. I feel like the WordPress setup might be easier than LJ's to gauge that.
So...uh...yeah, as you were. Oh, if anybody knows of a good cross-poster or other WP widget, by all means share.