State of the Blog
Some time in Sept. I started this Web Log. I'm not exactly sure why, other than for the technical challenge. Its been a lot of fun, and its been a great means of expression. I can't recommend Blogger strongly enough to those who might want to jump in and get their feet wet. Its very easy to get started and they will even provide the webspace if you need it. There is lots of help available and many features and most are free. Some of the tools I use now are.
- Blogger.Com of course>
- A stolen template which really deserves to get credit if I can find the authors name.
- Lumberjack to gather my access logs.
- Webalizer to help me make sense of these logs
- Freefind Search does a good job of digging through the archives to find particular articles.
The common denominator with these feature is they are free and nonobtrusive. I approach my Blog Links in the same way, I have listed very few links so far, and although I intend to increase the size of the list, it will not be huge. I include a link only if I am going to actually follow the Blog closely. Blogs that I find interesting, aren't always the ones that agree with me politically or philosophically, but those who express themselves in an interesting way. I do not insist that those that I link reciprocate.
I got the Atom feed running this weekend, in order to test it, I needed to get a news reader. I never understood what all the fuss was about with news aggregaters, RSS and Atom feeds. The readers will allow me to follow more news sources and Blogs. I am currently using Bottom Feeder, its free and seems to do a good job, It is one of several available free news readers. I provide a full feed, for now. Please let me know if you find the atom feed useful.
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