Illness, snow, blog

[ciphergoth]

Am off work with a cold. lovelybug also has this cold. Doubtless bathtubgin will soon be infected. I have spent the whole day in my pyjamas, dressing gown and monster slippers, looking at the snow through the window and lying on the floor playing SSX Tricky, which I am now far too good at.

booklectic persuaded me that I should start a proper blog, but the technical work is easier than the actual writing work! It finally has exactly one proper entry: a discussion of Jerry Coyne's book review on theistic evolution and convergent evolution. Hopefully it won't sit there lonely for too long.

Comments

[nameandnature]

I've gone the other way and tried to make my LJ into a proper blog: thanks to various Python scripts, I have comment feeds and I send out pingbacks/trackbacks to other blogs I link to (though I don't get them when people link to me, as LJ is advertising a pingback URL but doesn't appear to do anything with pings).

Admittedly, it might be easier just to set up a "proper" blog that'd do all this stuff for me, but I'd be a little worried that my existing commenters wouldn't follow me there, and I would see fewer interesting discussions as a result (as seems to happen when people flounce to Dreamwidth, for example).

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

I have to confess, it's almost entirely a status thing. People don't consider LJ blogs to be "proper" blogs in the same way - if I want to get smart people I don't personally know commenting, moving it off LJ seems to be a prerequisite. Stupid and annoying, but I'm not a great believer in shouting at the tide.

[lizw.livejournal.com]

I've run into this problem as well, but I find the LJ interface so much better for this kind of interaction that I've decided anyone who doesn't think it's "proper" can just sod off. Comment threading and notification in particular work so much better on LJ that I can rarely be bothered to try to sustain a conversation on a non-LJ-based blog (though I'll try to make an exception for yours, especially if you keep posting interesting stuff about religion and atheism!)