Manageable Content
The blogging phenomenon hasn’t caught on with most of the general population yet. Many people do know what the term “blog” is, but they wouldn’t know they were looking at it unless someone told them.
I showed my blog to someone and they couldn’t figure out how to navigate it. I had thought that it was self explanatory. It turns out that they didn’t understand that a blog is listed in a chronological order and not by topic. If only my blog supported categories, it may have been easier for them to get around.
Blogs, I have found, are great for that person who doesn’t know much HTML - just enough to get by. They are setup so that you just write an article and click a button. As you become more familiar with blogging, you begin to figure out how to do more stuff. Post photos, screen shots, audio, and links. Later on you also learn how to setup templates and get traffic to your site.
I have been trying to convince my wife and her sister that they should start blogging. Angel has blogged a few times on my blog, but she has only done it through sending an email address that I specially setup for her. Why? She likes googles method of checking her spelling and she understands how to use email. Koodo’s to her for taking that step.
My sister in-law actually has a website of her own already hosted over at geocities. Just looking at it tells me that this is one person destined to become a blogger. It is so much easier to organize all of that content and add more on the fly. I keep thinking that she would be the ideal blogger.
I realize that one of my strongest goals in life is to make things more manageable. I used to think that I was just plain lazy, but I understand that is not the case anymore. I do this with the code that I program in my job. I do this with how I setup my own blog. I do this with how I pay my bills and prepare my food. I always have this target goal that I want to make people have to think as little as possible so that they can get there job done easier.
February 1st, 2005 at 12:53 am
I think that’s an admirable goal and it’s refreshing to see someone who deals wtih code have that attitude. I see so much exclusionary behavior from the “online elite” and I think it’s unfortunate. I like your police MUCH better!
February 1st, 2005 at 1:09 am
Well, I have many reasons for doing it. For one, I don’t like to have noise laying around in a digital world. The biggest reason I have is that I want other people to pick up where I left off.