On weblogs, life, politics and journals.
2005-Jul-16, Saturday 21:50![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
matgbWell, the benefits of working my balls of at the moment is my brain is on overtime and when it wonders, it wonders good. I solved my biggest work problem of the week Friday while eating lunch, inspiration came to me and I went back to the office and solved multiple problems with a few button presses.
I digress. I've recently (meaning since the General Election and specifically during and after the bombings last week) become a huge fan of journalist style weblogs. Given that, while I don't want to be a journalist, I do have storng opinions on current affairs and wouldn't mind influencing opinion in some way, I want to start writing one.
Which got me thinking; why not use my livejournal? It's a weblog. Except, well, it isn't, really. LJ is inward looking, a great way to communicate with friends, share information, set up communities, etc. But it's mostly about building up communities within the membership, and to expand communities it needs to rectruit you as a member. You can blame![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nadriel for my account, and the increasing number of my friends that use LJ is a sign that LJ works.
So, I think I'll keep using my journal as just that, a journal. So, options on weblogging.
I could set up an account with something like blogspot or typepad, right? I could also create a new, paid LJ account a lajonnynexus and set it up stylistically so it looks and acts like a blog.
Or, I could install some blogging software into one of my domains, set up a sub domain for it and use that. Or I might embed a new journal into a domain, depending on costs, ease and appearance.
Does anyone out there either have any ideas, preferences or opinions?
If, of course, you lot want me to use this journal as a weblog, let me know, but I don't think it's the best plan by a long way. Whatever I do, there will definately be away to access it via LJ, probably an RSS feed or similar.
One thing is set; it already has a name and a basic ideal. NotLittleEngland, for forward thinking British campaigning and politics, no small minded, backwards looking false pride. The logo is likely to be an updated Brish flag fromt he pre 1801 Act of Union, no St Patrick's cross, possibly with the Welsh Dragon in the middle to show all three British nations.
(and, given the way my PC is chugging, it really is about time I sorted my finances and got a better one, any typos in this post are due to my typing going faster than my display catching up half the time. I'm not a fast typist as far as I'm aware.)
I digress. I've recently (meaning since the General Election and specifically during and after the bombings last week) become a huge fan of journalist style weblogs. Given that, while I don't want to be a journalist, I do have storng opinions on current affairs and wouldn't mind influencing opinion in some way, I want to start writing one.
Which got me thinking; why not use my livejournal? It's a weblog. Except, well, it isn't, really. LJ is inward looking, a great way to communicate with friends, share information, set up communities, etc. But it's mostly about building up communities within the membership, and to expand communities it needs to rectruit you as a member. You can blame
nadriel for my account, and the increasing number of my friends that use LJ is a sign that LJ works.So, I think I'll keep using my journal as just that, a journal. So, options on weblogging.
I could set up an account with something like blogspot or typepad, right? I could also create a new, paid LJ account a la
jonnynexus and set it up stylistically so it looks and acts like a blog.Or, I could install some blogging software into one of my domains, set up a sub domain for it and use that. Or I might embed a new journal into a domain, depending on costs, ease and appearance.
Does anyone out there either have any ideas, preferences or opinions?
If, of course, you lot want me to use this journal as a weblog, let me know, but I don't think it's the best plan by a long way. Whatever I do, there will definately be away to access it via LJ, probably an RSS feed or similar.
One thing is set; it already has a name and a basic ideal. NotLittleEngland, for forward thinking British campaigning and politics, no small minded, backwards looking false pride. The logo is likely to be an updated Brish flag fromt he pre 1801 Act of Union, no St Patrick's cross, possibly with the Welsh Dragon in the middle to show all three British nations.
(and, given the way my PC is chugging, it really is about time I sorted my finances and got a better one, any typos in this post are due to my typing going faster than my display catching up half the time. I'm not a fast typist as far as I'm aware.)
