Blogger Better
So I've been going back into the eMusings archives and adding tags to each post in the optimistic assumption that at some point I'll be able to use them to search posts with. I'm up to August of last year. It'll be awhile before all the posts are tagged.
Doing this, editing post after post, I've suddenly realized something rather cool. I'm successfully publishing one post after another! I remember a time in the not-too-distant past where it was hit or miss whether a post would actually publish or not. Between Blogger and my ISP I had to hold my breath every time. But of late, Blogger has been pretty durn reliable. Way to go, guys!
The other thing I've noticed, but I'm afraid to mention out loud, is how quickly Google is spidering my site. I can write a blog post and it will turn up in Google searches within a day or two. Scary.
Blog Tag: Chatter
Posted 4/16/2005 03:17:00 PM
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On 4/17/2005 12:37 AM, 
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On 4/17/2005 10:27 AM, 
dkgoodman said...
On 4/17/2005 10:45 AM, dkgoodman said...
On 4/17/2005 11:26 AM, said...
On 4/17/2005 11:42 AM, dkgoodman said...
On 4/17/2005 2:04 PM, gemmak said...
6 Comments:
Your luck has been better than mine regarding the posting of comments. As long as I wait until midnight to publish a comment, there have been no problems (so far). I find it risky, though, to hit the publish key during the day. Bad things tend to happen then. If I lose a lengthy comment, I won't actually cry, but I will whimper for awhile.
I'm almost finished reading your archives, but I can't find the archives between October of 2000 and May of 2004. Where are they?
I Googled some of your recent blog postings and you're right, they are all there in Google. That's a little scary for me too, because my posts are also there. This all getting a little weird. And to think that as of February of this year, I didn't even own a computer or know what a blog was. ( Yeah, that's right.) Getting this computer has started me on a strange journey.
I'm an early adopter. (Q. How can you tell who the pioneers are? A. They're the ones with the arrows in their backs.)
I first started this blog around 1999 or 2000, just to get a feel for how blogging worked. I think my first post was in 1999, but I didn't like it and redid it in 2000. Even so, after that initial post daring myself to keep posting, I didn't start again until last year, when I found myself with "too much time on my hands". Now I'm hooked.
(I find boredom to be a very dangerous thing. :)
P.S. You know, Melissa, you're very articulate and your career must give you some interesting perspectives. Now that you do have a computer and knowledge of blogs, you might think about heading over to Blogger.com or one of the other blog hosts and start your own blog! :)
It's pretty easy to do, and you'll have no trouble getting help when you need it. If you click their names, you'll see that many of the other visitors here have their own blogs, each with a different focus and flavor. That's the power of blogging.
Thank you for the complement, but I'm still too frightened and intimidated by my computer to do anything so daring. Besides, I'm saving my stories for the book that I'm going to write someday. (Maybe.) In the meantime, my co-workers are becoming increasingly anxious as I scribble notes in my free time. They think that I'm writing about them (and sometimes they're right.) I will share one of my favorite lines from the change of shift report concerning a patient. Delivered in broken English, the nurse said, "She may be movie star but she incontinent."
Am I the only one who thinks that's funny?
I did think that was funny. But then, I'm easily amused.
I suppose HIPAA prevents you from identifying the celebrity in question. sigh
I noticed the speed of the 'spidering' of late but what I don't understand is the vast difference in numbers of returns from one day to the next, as much as 1000 some days. I'll never understand spiders!
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