This bounces off a post made by Joe Albero on Salisbury News a couple days ago. He was frustrated at the dearth of postings made at certain blog sites, and I can see his point to some extent. Sometimes it’s frustrating to me to check out a blog site and find it’s the same old thing up for several days (or weeks.) However, there is a way to work around that.
If you’ll look on the left-hand column, I have a box under the posting calendar that says “other”. Inside that box is a link for RSS 2.0, which if I understand this correctly, one can place within their home page a link that automatically updates with each posting. In my example, my Yahoo page will update if any of several blogs post anew. This will save me a bit of time, but it’s only good for about 1/3 of the blogs I read regularly. Most “Blogspot” blogs don’t have a syndication setup that I’m aware of unless it’s added by the blogger. Fellow MBA bloggers Pillage Idiot and The Voltage Gate have done this with Blogspot sites through Feedburner.
With an RSS link people can see when I add items to monoblogue, which is on a regular (if not daily) basis. Since I work outside the home and don’t access my blog from my work computer I’m not going to spend large amounts of time posting during the day.
But for other blogs I can just go to my personal “My Yahoo” page and see if any new posts have been made in the blogs I syndicate now. Obviously Joe’s Salisbury News blog is good for new content but some others I can skip now in looking at daily unless I see something new there.
Adding to my comments, I just glanced through the blogs of my 14 fellow MBA brethren and these are the last updated posts:
4 last updated yesterday (Saturday the 30th)
3 last updated Friday the 29th
2 last updated Thursday the 28th
1 last updated Wednesday the 27th
The other four are last updated on the 26th (I think that’s when Stephanie wrote in hers, no date’s shown on the post), 21st, 14th, and September 12th – I’m not sure what the story is on the “Not-So-Free State” blog. The point is that with the MBA you’ll get fresher posts with a variety of perspectives about Maryland. My fellow MBA member Crablaw pointed out a few Eastern Shore blogs he liked the other day in this post.
As a side note, I have a few post ideas up my sleeve so if my schedule allows it, there will be more frequent monoblogue posts in the next few weeks as life goes from post-election and holiday mode back to “normal”. And they’re not playoff updates either, which I’m certain drove many people nuts. But I can’t help being a sports fan and I write about things I’m interested in. Anyway, I’m back to politics after this weekend.
Michael,
Even if “you” only posted once a week, it would be worth visiting because you have great posts.
I look at these other blogs and for instance, crabbin has a post up for 7 days of a picture of Jesus Christ.
The other blogs have livened up because I posted the fact that they suck so they’re posting to retaliate. That’s cool with me, at least it’s something.
When we introduce our new blog in the very near future it will also allow you to add yourself to any new posts and it will send an immediate message. Imagine the hits I would have had if I had that feature right now?
Anyhow, thanks for understanding where I was going and as always, keep up the good work.
The “story” on the Not So Free State is that I simply don’t have the time to blog on Maryland politics these days. That said, I recognize something needs to happen with it. In the new year, that will be determined – especially since the domain is about to expire.
If anyone is interested in taking it over, let me know. aaron@b5media.com
Aaron, that’s understandable and a bit ironic considering the subject of the Albero post was the lack of updates on local blogs. Your story is likely pretty similar to theirs because I seem to recall you have many other things on the plate.
Later: Got your e-mail, Aaron. Now I definitely understand.