Posts Tagged ‘Blogging’

It is Scribefire. I love the way I can develop my posts while actually on the sites I am researching or that triggered the post. It makes linking, adding images, and getting resource materials a breeze. It also cuts down on the time necessary to create the post.

Scribefire works with many blogging platforms, but, it is only available for Firefox at this time. And yes, there was a Firefox vulnerability that was recently using Scribefire as a vehicle. That has been patched and is no longer and issue. Plus, hackers and bandits are always looking for ways to exploit systems. Get a good defense system, like Avast, and keep it up to date.

Here is a bit more about Scribefire from Mahalo. This gives a lot of information about Scribefire and even has a tutorial.
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Elway says come get it, fool!

Here are the steps to how I blog:

1. I write the post in a text editor, my favorite being Q10 with the typing sounds on
2. I do a cursory read and make the post a bit more coherent
3. I cut and paste this into my Wordpress WYSIWYG
4. I format any HTML needed in the post in the Wordpress HTML editor
5. I give it a quick read
6. I post it
7. I finally give it the read it deserves, and find a crap-load of mistakes which I then correct

Why do I do things in this order? I seem to be unable to spot my own typos until my work is posted. I don’t know if it is because I am impatient. I don’t know if it is because I can’t visualize the final draft until it is no longer in draft form.

Either way, as soon as I see the posted content, I find and correct my errors. Everything should be alright at that point, if it weren’t for one little thing, my feeds.

Yep, the feeds pick up on the post before I get my corrections in place. Those that subscribe probably think I am barely literate. It is a bit aggravating.

I subscribe to the tenet of one of the greats, Hemingway, who said, “the first draft of anything is shit.”

But what I have now, looking at my Feedburner numbers, is hundreds of people getting that shit-strewn first draft. And to make it worse, it is all my own fault.

Maybe I need to stop my automatic work flow and deliberately start making new, more productive and correct habits.

Since I seem to need to see the final version before editing, maybe I need to save everything as a draft and then look at the post as if it were posted.

I know this seems silly to some, but this is just a result of years of bad habits that I now need to deliberately address and stop. Breaking habits and replacing them with better habits is not all that easy. A habit is, all in all, something that a person performs without thought, automatically.

Whatever the final solution to braking these bad habits, I need to start implementing ideas now as this is getting a bit more than embarrassing.

So, off to habit breaking war I go.

Cheers,

Eban

I make no promises, but things are totally looking down right now. The new Pres. is not only underwhelming, he is downright frightening. At least he is frightening to those that love liberty, freedom, and the chance to make something out of our lives.

If you are in the crowd that feels the need to be taken care of, no matter what the costs to your liberty and freedom, just remember, you get what you ask for. That should send a chill right down your spine, but you are probably too busy thinking of what you are going to do with your handouts to be bothered with freedom and pesky things like making something out of your lives.

Wait, with the above two paragraphs, I do believe I have started political blogging. Oh my, here we go!

Weeeeeeeeeeeee!

Cheers,

Eban