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February 15, 2005
My first post
Welcome to my first blog posting. I just finished composing a blog all about first blogging experience, but then lost my content when I clicked the button to customize display of the editing page on typepad (What a shame).
To create my first blog, I had to make several significant choices.
First, I thought I what kind of blog I wanted, and who would read it. I decided for now that my blog would be about whatever I was interested in, for whoever wanted to read it. Yes that's vague and probably violates the first few laws of media publishing, but I figure I can always subcategorize or even split off into multiple blogs.
Having chosen to base the blog on anything of interest to me, I chose to name my blog "Barney Pell's Weblog", rather than something more random, thematic, or specific.
- I was lucky enough to have the URL http://barney.typepad.com still available. Luke Nosek is sitting with me now, also creating his own first blog. He was jealous that "barney" was still available, as he had to settle for http://lukenosek.typepad.com, which is not bad at all. Plus he will probably replace it with any of his thousands of domain names.
- I chose typepad as many people I know are using this or moveable type already (e.g. Ross Mayfield, Auren Hoffman, Joi Ito, Andrew Chaiken, Alex Jacobson).
- I chose the power user version, and mixed media with three columns, so I could use all the advanced features (just in case).
With that, I'm off to submit this and then see what other advanced features I can play with. The main question running through my head is how quickly I can copy the cool elements from other typepad blogs I see out there, like lists of books and movies, links to other bloggers, lists of categories, etc. I will categorize my blog-about-blogging posts with the "weblog" category, and use other categories for less self-reflective content going forward.
Posted by barney at February 15, 2005 8:46 PM
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