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So who here maintains a daily blog?

 
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DJ
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:06 am    Post subject: So who here maintains a daily blog?    Reply with quote

And how long have you been doing it for?

What's a good way to keep it maintained? I've sorta got a thing where I'll sit down to write a single post and six pages will spill out. Because of that, I wind up not writing so much because I sorta don't want to be there all night sometimes.

I'm forcing myself to start putting shit down on proverbial paper again anyway. I had a longstanding blog at 1UP a while back, and I remember really liking doing it. For whatever reason, after I stopped doing it to do a failed stint at Deeko.com, I could just never get back into it, though I've always sort of wanted to. I loved the fact that I could thumb back through it and go "Oh yeah, I remember that".

So, I'm starting mine back up, in the hopes I'll actually stick with it this time. Maybe if I read other people's a lot, it'll inspire me to keep my own up? Worth a shot!

Weirdly, I actually got the idea for re-starting it 'cause I wanted to redo my banner on here. I never really liked the post-IC one I had. It had always linked to my (empty) livejournal, though. In making a new SB banner (5 minutes in photoshop for a semi-visually arresting strip of graphic wheee!), I wound up just chucking the game of my blog on there, then going "shit, I should really start working on one of those again."
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 5:56 pm        Reply with quote

Woo!

Also, people, if you do, link meh.
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PostPosted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:40 am        Reply with quote

Botah-gel?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:02 am        Reply with quote

Thread resurrection in the hopes that more people answer this.

Also, since closing my LiveJournal and moving back to 1UP.com (click the banner below my post to read), my output has gone from virtually nothing to several decent-sized posts a week.

Why? 1UP sucks. I do not understand the compulsion. But there you go.
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 8:47 am        Reply with quote

thatbox wrote:
Your LiveJournal layout was incredible, DJ. I really only saw it a couple of times, since I just read everyone's from my friends list, but man. That thing had style.


Thanks! I spent a lot of time on that (like double digits worth of hours), but had maybe five pages worth of stuff over a year. I think I've put more on my 1UP page in the under-a-month I've been back on it.

I dunno! I loved the idea of LJ, but it always felt weird to write about games on there. And I don't really do the personal blog thing, for whatever reason. My life isn't all that interesting, so it feels weird to have that be a primary subject -- but, it's like that's what an LJ is for, you know?

So I dunno. I don't like personal sites, I want to write about something other than myself.

I do try to carry the same semblance of uniformity to my 1UP blog. All the pictures are the same width (either the full blog width or 240px), everything kinda gets formatted the same way, and I try to make it easy to read.
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 3:10 am        Reply with quote

extrabastardformula wrote:
If I were to get a blog on some vidjergames site which would be reccomended and why?


As far as I'm aware 1UP is the only even remotely-reasonable videogame centric blog site.

Of course then you're whoring yourself to Ziff Davis. For free.
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