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For a long time the iPad blogging landscape has been a horrible, barren mess, with barely any decent blogging apps to be seen. Most blog platforms' editors didn't function in mobile Safari in any useful way. Blogging using the iPad was, at best, a challenge and, at worst, an impossibility.
Hopefully, this has just changed. I saw on the Everything Typepad blog that the Blogsy app now supported that service and, as an optimistic soul, I napped a copy, downloaded it to my iPad, and was pleased to see that it supports Movable Type as well. So, this is a first test run to see how well it works.
This far into the post it's been a pretty impressive experience - but I'm getting the impression that I need to watch some of the videos to get a good handle on how some of the dragging and dropping works, especially around links.
Time to publish and see if I'm still impressed...
Excellent post from Stephanie Booth about being realistic about what blogging can bring you:
- blogging is a long-term strategy: it will take many months or even years for you to see what benefits it's actually bringing you
- don't obsess on visitors and comments; instead, focus on what is said about your blog, and the opportunities it brings, in terms of contacts, open doors, favorable dispositions (qualitative measurement rather than quantitative)
I've nicked the handy summary above, but it's worth reading the whole thing.
Doing three days of liveblogging and seeing your own site's traffic drop slightly is an odd experience- Being isolated from the traffic stats of the blog you're writing for feels like blundering around in the dark. I had no idea if my work was having any resonance with the audience whatsoever. This makes me even more determined to make sure our journalists have easy access to blog stats as soon as we can.
- Being an "official" liveblogger as opposed to a guest one changes your mindset. I felt obligated to blog every speaker session that came up, when normally I'd pick and choose to give myself a break. Instead, I ended up skipping an immersive one day and a lunch the next for a little RnR and a battery charge.
- Not having power to the seat for liveblogging is a major handicap
- I was pretty much dead to the world each evening, hiding in the hotel and hitting the sack early to prepare myself for the next day.
- This was my longest continuous period working with WordPress, and I'd nearly convinced myself to switch this blog over when database errors started cropping up intermittently. That scared me off...
- It's interesting to not the differences between what live tweeters pick up, and what my liveblogging tends to emphasise.
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