Hey, I'm trying out this blogging client, Ecto. Seems pretty nifty.
I wish I could rearrange the order that all my different blogs appear in the main window so that I could put the ones I post in most frequently at the top! I don't want to delete the small blog I made for a one-semester class several years ago, but I'm never going to post in it again either, so I don't want to scroll past it and its myriad kin just to get to my active blogspot blogs!
Let's hope this helps my insane workflow. I even just dragged a photo into here from flickr - will it work right? Oooo! And nice built-in tagging.
I am getting really tired of people going "WELL... I don't understand HOW you can POSSIBLY blog in so many places. When do you LIVE?" In other words, "you are online too much, bitch."
Answer:
1. News for you people: before I was online too much I read all the time and wrote 20-40 pages a day in my paper journals so it's not like some kind of massive change in my life structure. It just makes the graphomania more visible & public.
2. Reading and writing and talking to other people *is* part of "real life".
3. My non-reading, non-writing, non-conversational, non-bloggity life is quite intense, thanks.
4. If you're implying that I'm spoiled and privileged, you're probably right, but do you point that out to every writer who's a guy?
4.5: What's with the implication that I must be a bad mother because I write too much?
5. It's weird when *other writers* do this whole thing to me. What do they think they're doing all day? Living in the fast lane? Experiencing some kind of healthy holistic bliss?
6. There is often an age-related judgment going on and this attitude goes along with the snottiness towards "text messaging teenagers". Need I point out Sturgeon's Law?
Anyway, Ecto. Seems useful! Right off, using it for the first time, I wish that the tagging could just be typed in all on one line instead of my having to click on plus or minus signs.
There is a nifty clicky interface for dragging stuff from your browser or stuffing the "now playing" from iTunes into the blog entry, thusly:
Make Yo Mama Happy from the album "Crystal Ball [CD3]" by Prince
"The Violent Foam: New and Selected Poems" (Daisy Zamora)
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Hmm, I hate how the photo imported. I wasn't sure why there were two windows in ecto, so I just randomly dragged a photo into the bottom one to test it out. I guess that's the "below the cut" box.
Posted by: badgerbag | August 14, 2006 at 04:55 PM
Ooo. Speaking of text messaging.... there's a texted novella called "Ghost" that's coming out soon! Must investigate. Imagine a novel written specially to come into your phone a sentence at a time over several weeks. Maybe it's just like the character talking to you in real time and you figure out what's happening in their life!
Posted by: badgerbag | August 15, 2006 at 08:17 AM
Ecto looks sweet! I just tried it. Gotta play with it when I'm less bleary-eyed. I've been getting frustrated with Blogger b/c it's sometimes slooowwww ... but, free keeps me there. Writing stuff offline and/or without having to use the Blogger interface seems like a great deal! You're so cool.
Posted by: zombiegrrrl | August 15, 2006 at 07:22 PM
I don't even know if this interface (TypePad? TypeKey? Not even Blogspot/Blogger?) is going to let me post, but I think I've seen your name around in various discussions, and liked what you've said. And I got here this evening by Googling Love of Worker Bees and hoping there'd be an online text version because I can't find any of my three copies. And then, in scrolling around and about your blog -- this one, at any rate, I also saw your link to the Daisy Zamora poetry collection, which I just bought from her fair hand last Saturday evening. Anyway... do you LJ, too? I would find that easier to navigate than this confusing thing. Here's hoping. I can't even find the, um, general userinfo page on this! Help a girl out in her ignorance, please.
Posted by: maeve66 | August 16, 2006 at 08:40 PM
Okay, well at least I found that last item... right to the right of me. Sorry. Still -- enjoyable blog, and maybe I'm about to enter a period of greater facility with all the other kinds of blogs out there besides LiveJournal... I've read many of the favorites you list, but not so regularly.
Posted by: maeve66 | August 16, 2006 at 08:42 PM
Okay... actually I suppose it is possible that I took that bilingual book of collected poetry from YOUR hand, at the Make Out Room. Is that possible? Were you there? God, I feel like an idiot. I love WWD, and Other magazine. And your name seems familiar anyway. Okay... see, that's why I wanted to see the profile first, anyway. Oy.
Posted by: maeve66 | August 16, 2006 at 08:44 PM
Hi Maeve66! Probably I took your money, I was the sort of hyper girl in the front row selling the books - were you sitting behind me? Actually I remember you, now that I see your pic on LJ.
I loved "Love of Worker Bees" but haven't read it in forever! I love feminist socialist books in general.
Also, I do have an LJ but it's kind of random and I barely ever post there. Are you still here or are you in Chicago? We should go have coffee if you're here!
Posted by: badgerbag | August 16, 2006 at 10:46 PM
I'm here. In Oakland, that is. Are you East Bay or SF? (Sorry this took me a while; I do have a harder time getting to this blog.)
Posted by: maeve66 | August 21, 2006 at 01:02 AM
I'm guilty of publicly boggling at your output, but believe me, I do it not out of scorn but out of envy...
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle | September 04, 2006 at 12:19 PM