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This newfangled invention
Posted by
jaydfox
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09 April 2008
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Blogs.
I tried one in the past. Two, actually. Called Longevity First and Jay Fox's CR Blog, they were mediocre at best, save that Longevity First got syndicated by the Methuselah Foundation on the front page of their MPrize.org website. Both sites have been irrevocably lost to \dev\null, because I ran the website that hosted the blogs, and I stopped paying the bill, and I didn't have a backup of the forum database...
Anyway, as I said, Longevity First was syndicated, and I think my CR blog even had inbound links from other CR blogs, so I got decent traffic. However, I didn't post often enough to be worth syndicating, so the Methuselah Foundation and I mutually agreed to give my Longevity First space over to a more timely author.
My CR blog was a failure on two fronts. First, I didn't keep it up very long, and second, I'm back to my old eating habits...
So I'm going to give this another go. This time, however, it'll mostly be a sort of online diary, save it'll be of details I don't mind being semi-public (well, fully public in the day and age of google). As an added benefit, rather than try to run my own website and blog software and database, etc., I'll just use this newfangled invention: The forum-attached blog.
That's probably not the technical term for it. But it's attached to the forum, not just by web links but by the forum database. Sweet, one account, two features: forum and blog! So much easier than the maintenance was on my other blogs!
Anyway, this is just an introductory post, and I have to get to work before my boss gets pissed off. So, for now, so long...
I tried one in the past. Two, actually. Called Longevity First and Jay Fox's CR Blog, they were mediocre at best, save that Longevity First got syndicated by the Methuselah Foundation on the front page of their MPrize.org website. Both sites have been irrevocably lost to \dev\null, because I ran the website that hosted the blogs, and I stopped paying the bill, and I didn't have a backup of the forum database...
Anyway, as I said, Longevity First was syndicated, and I think my CR blog even had inbound links from other CR blogs, so I got decent traffic. However, I didn't post often enough to be worth syndicating, so the Methuselah Foundation and I mutually agreed to give my Longevity First space over to a more timely author.
My CR blog was a failure on two fronts. First, I didn't keep it up very long, and second, I'm back to my old eating habits...
So I'm going to give this another go. This time, however, it'll mostly be a sort of online diary, save it'll be of details I don't mind being semi-public (well, fully public in the day and age of google). As an added benefit, rather than try to run my own website and blog software and database, etc., I'll just use this newfangled invention: The forum-attached blog.
That's probably not the technical term for it. But it's attached to the forum, not just by web links but by the forum database. Sweet, one account, two features: forum and blog! So much easier than the maintenance was on my other blogs!
Anyway, this is just an introductory post, and I have to get to work before my boss gets pissed off. So, for now, so long...
