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A few changes made at Blog Inspiration…
Posted by: admin in Site Information on February 8th, 2009
While working on the series of articles about blogging clients and Movable Type, I noticed just how few of the clients were working with my Movable Type installation. I don’t know if something was wrong with my installation or if things had changed in Movable Type since the last time the blogging clients were updated. Either way, it was frustrating.
Since I’m hosted through Godaddy.com and they offered WordPress as an option, I had them install a copy for me on a little-used domain name I host there. I tried it with a couple of the clients and it worked much, much better.
I’m currently migrating all my sites from Movable Type over to WordPress now, including this one. As a result, you may notice some “oddities” on this site until I get some of the details sorted out (like moving the image files from the old system to the new one).
Although I have had some frustrations with WordPress, on balance I think this will be a good move and readers of this site will benefit from it.
Thanks for your patience and understanding as I get the site fully operational and ready…
What is “BlogInspiration”?
Posted by: admin in Site Information on August 12th, 2008
A couple of years ago, I was sitting at my keyboard wanting to blog about something. I didn’t really know what I wanted to write about. I just knew I wanted to write. Ideas wouldn’t come. I had “blogger’s block”…
I thought to myself, “Well, there are web sites for everything else I can think of. I’ll bet someone out there has a site full of blog ideas that I can browse through and borrow.” So I did what any blogger would do. I Googled several variations of blogging, ideas, and inspirations. I came up with one site that flashed a different lame idea every few seconds from a list of about 10 ideas. Some inspiration. “We need a blog inspiration site!” I thought to myself.
To my surprise, the domain name was available. I bought it. I set up a hosting account that cost me a couple hundred bucks. I spent about two weeks writing the code to handle people coming to the site, signing up for accounts, submitting ideas, submitting links to the finished blog entries, sharing blogging resources, etc. It wasn’t a tremendously beautiful site from a cosmetic point of view, but it was quick, efficient, and (I thought) easy to use. I advertised the site, I engaged in reciprocal linking, I talked about it in forums, etc. Then…. nothing. It flopped. Traffic was minimal. I don’t think a single person submitted an idea or a link in two years. When the time came to renew the hosting contract, I didn’t bother. But the domain name is registered for a while longer, so I’m going to use it.
So, instead of a site where people came to share and get ideas about blogging, you get another blog. I hope to share ideas with you along the way and hopefully live up to the “inspiration” of the site’s name. If you’ve got ideas how I can make this a site that helps you with your blogging, feel free to post comments and let me know. Even if I don’t use your idea, someone else visiting here might, and this site will have achieved its purpose.