Friday, April 22, 2011

Which Blog?

So I downloaded this new app called Blogsy.

It's pretty cool.

Right now, I'm blogging in my uber-comfy bed on my iPad, and unlike the WordPress app, I can publish this post on both my WordPress account and on my Blogger account. So this begs the question: which account do I use?

I started the WordPress account because I got the WordPress app, but now I can use the iPad for Blogger, too.

But Crifmer, I hear you ask, couldn't you have used the iPad with Blogger anyway via Safari? Well, yes, I answer, but it's not nearly as user-friendly as using a native app. For instance, with an app I can see what I'm typing a lot better. And with Blogsy, I can drag and drop content like pictures and video right into the blog post and format easily. Not that I've done that yet. This is only my first post with Blogsy.

But I am going to make an effort to blog more. It's funny, talking about blogging seems to be my number one topic in my blogs. How I'm not really a blogger and never know what to talk about. But I think having an app that lets me write and save local drafts to be published later will help a lot. The WordPress app was paranoid about being connected to the internet, and the one time I tried to write offline, it ate half the post in a nervous fit.

My renewed interest in blogging comes from a recent writing spurt I've been having. I broke through some writer's block and started work on my (latest) novel again, and that's been going very well. It feels great to be writing again, even if it's something rambly like this. The other day I stumbled onto the content sites HubPages and Squidoo, and yesterday I wrote my first article for HubPages. According to my brother (a soon to be Master of Writing at Rutgers University), I should be blogging. So I'm warming up and rambling. I don't know that I'd be able to sustain a regular blog, but I enjoyed writing my article, and I'll try my hand at some more. Maybe I will find that I have enough in me for a blog.

But writing this post was fun, anyway.

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