Welcome to the New World ...
When we started here on Irate Weirdos almost two years ago, I looked at a lot of the available tools for blog-artists. I looked at a very popular tool for blogging called, creatively, Blogger. It looked like it would be an easy thing to work with, but there was a catch. Blogger was free to use for everyone - unless you wanted to make any money off your site. For the commercial set, they offered Blogger Pro.
I was hoping to run some type of advertisement on IWDC, I knew it wouldn't make me rich, but I just couldn't cost justify not running ads or paying for Blogger Pro.
So, for the run of this site, we have done everything manual. I think somtimes I don't take the time to make an entry because I do have to go through all the manual steps. For a while I couldn't do the manual steps from home, because I couldn't get my FTP functions to work - so I had to jump through even more hoops. I'm sure Max had similar problems with the manual process - I mean, both of us are lazy bastards with a busy life! IWDC comes very far down the list.
But, now, Google, one of our favorite search engines, has purchased Blogger. Apparently, Google likes blogs and wants to encourage we blog-artists. Blogger Pro is no longer offered. The current Pro subscribers still have some features that everyone else does not have, but the rest of the features have fallen to the bloggin' masses. I have looked around, there are no proscriptions against we commercial blogs using Blogger. Woo hoo!
I'm really excited. I hope that this will help Max and I get closer to our goal: daily content. Or, at least, give you all something to read more often than once a week.
Other changes are coming. Today, they may come hourly or even more often. We're trying out a new commenting service - tell us what you think about it. I'm going to add a blabber board. The ads are going to change (improve?). Things are shifting all over. If there is something you don't like or miss - let us know.
Well, enjoy and here's to more of us!
Old Comments:
Jericho @ 2:24PM | October 5th 2003
Let's see what we get ...
Liz @ 8:15PM | October 5th 2003
Well, not bad... I couldn't get it to work on Netscape, so had to swith over to Explorer, but now I can see everything.
Jericho @ 9:53PM | October 6th 2003
I'm on a Mac, Netscape and Explorer both work from here. I will jump on a PC later and see what I get. I have a chip on my shoulder about Microsoft right now, so it's important to me that Netscape users can see this.
Max Dobberstein @ 11:29PM | October 6th 2003
Looks fine from Mozilla.
Jericho @ 11:35AM | October 7th 2003
I'm on IE 5.5 on an NT machine here at work. I'll try this from my XP machine at home later.
I was hoping to run some type of advertisement on IWDC, I knew it wouldn't make me rich, but I just couldn't cost justify not running ads or paying for Blogger Pro.
So, for the run of this site, we have done everything manual. I think somtimes I don't take the time to make an entry because I do have to go through all the manual steps. For a while I couldn't do the manual steps from home, because I couldn't get my FTP functions to work - so I had to jump through even more hoops. I'm sure Max had similar problems with the manual process - I mean, both of us are lazy bastards with a busy life! IWDC comes very far down the list.
But, now, Google, one of our favorite search engines, has purchased Blogger. Apparently, Google likes blogs and wants to encourage we blog-artists. Blogger Pro is no longer offered. The current Pro subscribers still have some features that everyone else does not have, but the rest of the features have fallen to the bloggin' masses. I have looked around, there are no proscriptions against we commercial blogs using Blogger. Woo hoo!
I'm really excited. I hope that this will help Max and I get closer to our goal: daily content. Or, at least, give you all something to read more often than once a week.
Other changes are coming. Today, they may come hourly or even more often. We're trying out a new commenting service - tell us what you think about it. I'm going to add a blabber board. The ads are going to change (improve?). Things are shifting all over. If there is something you don't like or miss - let us know.
Well, enjoy and here's to more of us!
Old Comments:
Jericho @ 2:24PM | October 5th 2003
Let's see what we get ...
Liz @ 8:15PM | October 5th 2003
Well, not bad... I couldn't get it to work on Netscape, so had to swith over to Explorer, but now I can see everything.
Jericho @ 9:53PM | October 6th 2003
I'm on a Mac, Netscape and Explorer both work from here. I will jump on a PC later and see what I get. I have a chip on my shoulder about Microsoft right now, so it's important to me that Netscape users can see this.
Max Dobberstein @ 11:29PM | October 6th 2003
Looks fine from Mozilla.
Jericho @ 11:35AM | October 7th 2003
I'm on IE 5.5 on an NT machine here at work. I'll try this from my XP machine at home later.
posted by Jericho Brown at 10/05/2003 01:16:00 PM
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