Anyone know anything about podcasting? I know about the basics: having the ability to create a link to one’s website which will enable visitors to listen to MP3 (or similar?) sound files — like a broadcast over the internet for a certain period of time.
Can you do this on Blogger? Or is this something too sophisticated for a free service, and you have to find another host?
Any input? Or am I way outta my league?
I’m finding this blogging thing to be a whole buttload of fun.
And despite our differences, we bloggers in truth have a buttload of things in common, primarily this: we started with nothing but an idea or a concept. We checked out the internet. We found Blogger — or another provider. We were smart enough to make Blogger work (except for me) — or the other provider.
We crafted our sites, checked out templates, rejected templates, changed our look, our style, started writing and hoped to be read by someone other than our Aunt Tilly. And, of course, we had to tell her where to go and give her the damn URL. “Look: everything begins with http. What part of that don’t you get?”
Okay, so we got disgusted with Aunt Tilly because of her computer incompetence and then began playing to the skills of the not-so-disassociated. Our friends at work. Our family. The computer guru for the company. Maybe a local newspaper. Or some Big Time Bloggers like Hugh Hewitt — who to this day has no idea I exist though I sent him 78 e-mails and 59 links to my pisshead blog — the bastard.
Do you remember the first time you saw your blog on the internet? On the actual INTERNET? Right there in front of your face? How satisfying was that?
“Hey. Check this out,” you thought. “This is something I MADE.”
How proud were you? I know I was beaucoup proud. Because you know what? Anyone with any semblance of internet or HTML talent already has their sophisticated website on the WWW. That ain’t you or me or otherwise our asses wouldn’t be on Blogger anyway.
So we learned how to make posts. Then we learned how to link the titles in our posts. Then we learned how to make links within the body of our posts — and I’ll tell you what: after that accomplishment I felt almost invincible. What a WORLD that opened up for me! My blog can actually look like some of the other Big Time blogs I frequent!
But wait; there’s more!
Remember making the discovery about photographs? You didn’t just have to go to the internet; oh no! Blogger now gave you the option of downloading items from your very own personal computer! That is so incredibly fabulous! How invincible were you now?
But wait; there’s more:
Can you remember your first comment? I can. Mine was a piece of spam from a realty company. Then I decided to turn on spam ID and that became an issue of the past.
My first real comment was from a now-known blog goddess, Mahndisa. To this day, I still don’t know how my blog got into the so-called internet mainstream.
Have I hooked you so far?
So I posit these questions:
Quite frankly, I prefer an active site. I like posting at least once a day though, due to issues beyond my immediate control, this does not always occur. If I can post once, twice, maybe three times a day (and I have the time!) I will.
It all depends on tidal pull, sunspots and prevailing trade winds.
Gimme your input! What do you think?
So there I was; upstairs huddled in front of my warm, throbbing HP Pavilion zd8000 laptop, really getting into a keen contest of words between Mahndisa of Mahndisa’s Thoughts and the interminable Intellectual Insurgent, and boy was it fun — until I finally realized: the digital world is nice, but I do my best reading when I hold something in my hand.
Are you the same way? I, for whatever moonbat reason, can proofread and concentrate on information most efficiently from a hard copy. Coupled with the inherent long, thin, vertical nature of blogs, I found myself having to go up and down, up and down, trying my best to compare and contrast the various statements they made. I got-a so confoosed. . .
My big desktop confuser is temporarily down pending federal funding for a flatscreen half as decent as the one on this laptop (the zd8000 has the sharpest, clearest, most detailed screen I’ve ever seen — anywhere — on anything — ever).
Despite that, though my laptop (yeah, right, try placing this monstrous bastard on your lap and see if you ever have decent quadriceps muscles again) has a 17″ widescreen, in an ideal world I find I’d like to have about three or four separate monitors so I can put various posts and comments up on each.
Lacking this brain glazingly-expensive (though, for me, ideal) solution, I’ll bring the internet up in 3, 4 or 5 separate windows and toggle between them. And in truth, I never really print out hard copies because it’s simply not practical — there’s so much information I read and reference.
I guess I just process information this way.
How about you?
The NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) today released its first overview from photographic take of the US KeyEye MS-11 satellite. I have included a digital copy of this for my devoted readers.
What would happen if you discovered a dirty little secret, a dirty little lie? Would you keep it? What if it involved an acquaintance of yours? Would you keep it?
What if it involved two nations in the northern hemisphere and would affect the overall economy of the world? Would you keep it?
As an aside, two interesting little bits I didn’t feel like publishing in a separate post:
— Usage of the internet per state.
— US concerns about identity theft over the internet.