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

Yep, just look at the sidebar and there you go. Individual feeds for each section of RfL Productions.

It would be nice to think that everyone out there is a fan of everything that is done here, but I know that is probably not he case. Some people like the animation, some the RfL 2.0 shows, or the Centro Hits, or whatever combination. Up until now your only subscription option was all or nothing. Now, you get to choose what you want from RfL.

How cool is that?

You may also notice that I have a new section, The New Media Cynic. That is what it sounds like. It is the place where I get to say all the honest, or even non-nice things on my mind about htis little world of social, new, web, or whatever media.

We also have a Quickjabs Juggernaut coming out on Friday, so be ready. It will totally rock.

Cheers,

Eban