Blogging II

What has changed?

I've been playing around with posts and templates. I moved some posts to other blogs I created, that is, for Iligan related postings I recreated them in CMonIligan.blogspot.com. Ditto postings related to business, technology, consulting, and perhaps more if necessary.

I played around with templates in Blogger. Previously I thought I can only use two column templates as made available by Blogger. I googled and found three column templates that you can use by tweaking your current template or use preset three column templates, but you'll have to trust the source on this one.

I also created a blog by Wordpress and Typepad. Wordpress is more flexible in terms of template usage. The blog CMonTech and CMonBusiness are Wordpress managed. Wordpress has a dashboard that allows you to see your postings from your different W-blogs. Management of pictures and videos is quite different. I have never successfully embedded a video yet.

You will need some CSS skills though to tweak your template. It's not as straightforward as Blogger. So this is an area to learn and do.

I started to add links to other personal sites found at the right hand area with title CM Links and, in the process, found the service Spock. It’s a person search facility that allows for multiple tagging criteria. It’s easy to use it’s like a game. I noticed that LinkedIn members are preloaded.

(By the way, this post was interrupted by Blogger access issues and some paragraphs were deleted, which sucked. So I will be looking for offline editors that can interface with Blogger.)

Typepad has already charged me $5 for this month. Since my blog CMon.Typepad is only experimental, I may want to remove this in the future. Typepad has a clean user interface and is probably most user friendly.

The idea to have multiple blogs for different categories for me is again experimental. I may want to revert to a single blog for all postings that will show notes from serious to trivial. I find that awkward but we’ll see.

Well, it’s fun. So many blogs to read.

And thank you for reading this blog!