What is the moral, Miss Lonelyblogs? Am I a two-timer? Or does blogging require careful thought and planning, clear direction and purpose?
When I questioned a photographer who had a relationship, photoblog-wise, with my own blogware; he replied that he had a web master to attend to that. That is one way to get it done. The best way. Who am I to want to become a web master, beast master, task master or zen master this late in my life? Remember that the web master deserves far more respect for facing the constant petty problems and nitty pickings necessary to keep a site working, flashing, roll-overed and mastered.
Guiltily yours,
Lagoonish Blogger
Dear Lagoonish:
Yours is a common cry. We at MissLonelyBlogs.com offer a family service counseling bloggers, their abandoned families, reformed blog addicts, and those who have fallen into the cult of media-worship. I cannot condone your profligate and possibly perverted use of perfectly good blogware to stroke your own ego. You have the audacity to cry that you were “seduced”. That blogging platform trusted you to treat it fairly and, in your inexperience, you could not properly control its environment.
Remember this, bloggers! Don't say “I do” until you can.
Blogging is not for the faint of heart nor the fickle throbs of those who would follow just any blog home to its domain. You want to blog away without regard for the simple feelings of complicated systems who need constant attention. Blogging is a serious activity that requires effort, loyalty and planning. If you cannot support a blogging platform, take a communal blog out for a while — Blogger, WordPress.com, LiveJournal. OK, they must be shared with complete strangers but they could make you happy for a time or even as a regular diet. Better yet, they are yet better day-by-day as they vie for the blogger-Johns that happen by. Even blogging must sometimes sully its purity with the mechanisms of business.
Take your fingers out of your guilty pockets and put them back on the keys. Make your blogware happy by keeping it filled to overflowing with words, pictures and links. Give it all your attention. Make it feel loved and important. Smile on your host for they will make the servers sing your praises. Pull up the only editor that works, ScribeFire which lives in the den of the Firefox, and don't whine. Just post and post again. Drown your lascivious need to philander around the Web in hard work and let the different wares assert their power and independence. Each has its own needs and desires and we at Miss Lonely Blogs will forever work to protect the strength and identity of the willing partners of you blogging devils and devilish bloggers.
Article comments
1 - Christopher Rose
Howard, I'm having many of the same issues as you but after reading your article, I can now at least laugh about it! Thanks for that.
2 - High Heels
I've played around with so many blogs, I've lost track. I think I may even have got one of them pregnant, but it was a group blog, so nobody can prove anything... *runs home to Blogger when nobody is looking.*
HH ;)
3 - Temple Stark
Well played, sir. Miss LonelyBlogs has a lot to answer for.
I still don't know how to create pages with WP, and I don't know if that's because I'm on a Mac (doubtful but I keep it there as an excuse) or because I really just can't figure it out and need to sit down and try. I'm extremely loathe to use up vacation time to do it. :-)