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I Tried Out Various Blogging Apps, Tools, Pages, Sites – Both in the Past & Recently

Posted by serity ⋅ May 5, 2011 ⋅ Leave a Comment

This site here turns out to be a good site, but I just now found the following on Facebook:

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I’m Trying This OutPosted on 9:41pm by you Edit | Delete

I keep trying out different blog sites and blog pages and blog apps. I sometimes use Facebook profile and/or page “notes” page for a place to blog a little. Then I would try out Blogger and/or Bloglines. I found Tumblr and forgot about it again. Later, I discovered http://www.wordpress.com. Then I created http://www.micrtron.com. Then I went back to Tumblr following someone’s tip on Twitter, and created a new blog there. Then I found Network Blogging, a Facebook app that allows folks with blogs on different sites to thread them all together somehow. Amazing! Also, one can always go to free webs and create their own blog site there with their stuff there. Now, I’ve discovered this blogging app tool here. But, I thought I had created a way last week for my Micrtron blog to function as an app, but don’t know how well it worked and so I keep trying to find it. I had named the app, “Blog Space”. I just didn’t know what to do completely. For one with an Associate Degree in Computer Information Systems, I often feel like a complete dunce. When I first graduated from High School from a boarding school, I had just been introduced to computers just the year before, and it was the first thing I ran by my parents as a possible career to major in that they approved of. They hadn’t approved of my idea of pursuing an agricultural degree so that I could have a job working with horses. They hadn’t approved of the ideas of becoming a creative writer of some sort or pursuing photography as a major. But, when I came across this discovery of computers, they liked that one. My mother had been a secretary and was very good at that, but back then, one had to use a typewriter, as wordprocessing software hadn’t been invented yet. That meant that you stuck a blank piece of paper into a typewriter, and be able to type a page perfectly, with no mistakes, copying the page that one sees to type from perfectly, making an exact duplicate, which I wasn’t able to do, and you needed to be able to do this task speedily, which I wasn’t able to do either. But, the keyboarding skills that I gained in high school level typing classes did benefit me enough to be able to find my way around a keyboard by the time we got a chance to try out a TRS-80 computer due to another student’s interests in computers. With an old typewriter (IBM Selectric in that typing class), if one made a mistake in that class, you couldn’t just use white-out, one had to start over, the page was never quite good enough. With a computer, one could just move the cursor to where the mistake was in the program one was writing from scratch or copying from the book or notes into the computer, and make the correction that way! What a relief! And then it was fun watching the computer respond to you and see how it carried out the program one just put into it. It was cool to watch. So, I decided to try and pursue that as a major, but I graduated from high school in June of 1981, but didn’t finish my Associate Degree in the junior college until 1990. When I began pursuing the computing industry, I had no clue as to how many different jobs, careers, majors, et cetera, was available, nor how many different platforms there was, especially at the beginning, and then watch a lot of that thin out over the next 10-15 years. That there was both a ‘business computing curriculum’ and a ‘science curriculum’. One being labeled “computer information systems” and “management information systems” and some other titles, the other being “computer science”. I would learn that in the job market, there would be the IBM path, which included what would become Microsoft’s contribution to the computing industry, but there was another job market in which one needed to know another operating system not taught at the junior college I went to, and that was Unix, from which Linux is a derivitive of. What was just two or three contributing to the desktop industry in 1980, would fill to more than 15 platform offerings for your home and office desktop use, by about 1985, and then thin out to about two or three options by about 1995, that would include Windows, whatever the Apple Mac that was being offered at the time, and some kind of Unix and build-it-yourself computer platform. Then, by about year 2000, Linux was entering into the fray, invented by Linus Torvalds. I also heard about a little-known platform offering called “BeOS”, which seemed promising at the time I heard of it, but I was married to my ex-husband, Steve, at the time, and I thought, that this BeOS project might be well worth looking into, but Steve was against it, and he wouldn’t let me look into it myself either. So, I never, ever did. But, that’s the way it goes in my family,. I’m always being discouraged from whatever it is I wish to try and I’ve no real supporters in my life in whatever it is that I wish to do and I can’t decern when the opposition is right and when the opposition is wrong and trying to prove them wrong just often winds up just proving myself to be wrong instead. I never seem to victor, everyone else seems to do so. I just never know why this is. It is very discouraging to know that this is the case. But, in the meantime, I discovered I liked some Science Fiction, too, and as a special treat, I decided to upload a You Tube link to a _Doctor_Who_ video. Whether or not that’s only video I get to add here, I don’t know, of if I get to add more than one video, I don’t know. But, it takes time to learn each new piece of software and each site there is out here on the internet. They are all so very unique and individual, they are. And that’s the main purpose of this one particular blog that I’m doing here at the moment, to learn how this works on this app here on Facebook. I’ll probably copy it into the blogs I have at Micrtron and on Tumblr to see how well it works there, trying to find an audience as I’ven’t really found my blogging audience yet.
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I’m Trying This OutPosted on 9:41pm by you Edit | Delete

I just Tried this Blogging Tool Out and Failed and Lost a Great BlogPosted on 9:44pm

I just Tried this Blogging Tool Out and Failed and Lost a Great BlogPosted on 9:44pm

All you see is this Blue B on the top. I thought it had failed to publish my blog, but I now think I was wrong and I now owe it an apology for giving it an “F” because it kept telling me that there was an error in trying to publish it. I’ll now go back and copy the actual blog, if I can actually read it there:

Here it is again:

I just Tried this Blogging Tool Out and Failed and Lost a Great BlogPosted on 9:44pm by you Edit | Delete I don’t know if I’ll ever remember it! I was wanting to copy it in other sites because it was so good! I liked what I put. I should’ve saved it or typed it up elsewhere first. This tool didn’t work that well. Perhaps, it isn’t that great.

I’m Trying This OutPosted on 9:41pm by you Edit | Delete I keep trying out different blog sites and blog pages and blog apps. I sometimes use Facebook profile and/or page “notes” page for a place to blog a little. Then I would try out Blogger and/or Bloglines. I found Tumblr and forgot about it again. Later, I discovered http://www.wordpress.com. Then I created http://www.micrtron.com. Then I went back to Tumblr following someone’s tip on Twitter, and created a new blog there. Then I found Network Blogging, a Facebook app that allows folks with blogs on different sites to thread them all together somehow. Amazing! Also, one can always go to free webs and create their own blog site there with their stuff there. Now, I’ve discovered this blogging app tool here. But, I thought I had created a way last week for my Micrtron blog to function as an app, but don’t know how well it worked and so I keep trying to find it. I had named the app, “Blog Space”. I just didn’t know what to do completely. For one with an Associate Degree in Computer Information Systems, I often feel like a complete dunce. When I first graduated from High School from a boarding school, I had just been introduced to computers just the year before, and it was the first thing I ran by my parents as a possible career to major in that they approved of. They hadn’t approved of my idea of pursuing an agricultural degree so that I could have a job working with horses. They hadn’t approved of the ideas of becoming a creative writer of some sort or pursuing photography as a major. But, when I came across this discovery of computers, they liked that one. My mother had been a secretary and was very good at that, but back then, one had to use a typewriter, as wordprocessing software hadn’t been invented yet. That meant that you stuck a blank piece of paper into a typewriter, and be able to type a page perfectly, with no mistakes, copying the page that one sees to type from perfectly, making an exact duplicate, which I wasn’t able to do, and you needed to be able to do this task speedily, which I wasn’t able to do either. But, the keyboarding skills that I gained in high school level typing classes did benefit me enough to be able to find my way around a keyboard by the time we got a chance to try out a TRS-80 computer due to another student’s interests in computers. With an old typewriter (IBM Selectric in that typing class), if one made a mistake in that class, you couldn’t just use white-out, one had to start over, the page was never quite good enough. With a computer, one could just move the cursor to where the mistake was in the program one was writing from scratch or copying from the book or notes into the computer, and make the correction that way! What a relief! And then it was fun watching the computer respond to you and see how it carried out the program one just put into it. It was cool to watch. So, I decided to try and pursue that as a major, but I graduated from high school in June of 1981, but didn’t finish my Associate Degree in the junior college until 1990. When I began pursuing the computing industry, I had no clue as to how many different jobs, careers, majors, et cetera, was available, nor how many different platforms there was, especially at the beginning, and then watch a lot of that thin out over the next 10-15 years. That there was both a ‘business computing curriculum’ and a ‘science curriculum’. One being labeled “computer information systems” and “management information systems” and some other titles, the other being “computer science”. I would learn that in the job market, there would be the IBM path, which included what would become Microsoft’s contribution to the computing industry, but there was another job market in which one needed to know another operating system not taught at the junior college I went to, and that was Unix, from which Linux is a derivitive of. What was just two or three contributing to the desktop industry in 1980, would fill to more than 15 platform offerings for your home and office desktop use, by about 1985, and then thin out to about two or three options by about 1995, that would include Windows, whatever the Apple Mac that was being offered at the time, and some kind of Unix and build-it-yourself computer platform. Then, by about year 2000, Linux was entering into the fray, invented by Linus Torvalds. I also heard about a little-known platform offering called “BeOS”, which seemed promising at the time I heard of it, but I was married to my ex-husband, Steve, at the time, and I thought, that this BeOS project might be well worth looking into, but Steve was against it, and he wouldn’t let me look into it myself either. So, I never, ever did. But, that’s the way it goes in my family,. I’m always being discouraged from whatever it is I wish to try and I’ve no real supporters in my life in whatever it is that I wish to do and I can’t decern when the opposition is right and when the opposition is wrong and trying to prove them wrong just often winds up just proving myself to be wrong instead. I never seem to victor, everyone else seems to do so. I just never know why this is. It is very discouraging to know that this is the case. But, in the meantime, I discovered I liked some Science Fiction, too, and as a special treat, I decided to upload a You Tube link to a _Doctor_Who_ video. Whether or not that’s only video I get to add here, I don’t know, of if I get to add more than one video, I don’t know. But, it takes time to learn each new piece of software and each site there is out here on the internet. They are all so very unique and individual, they are. And that’s the main purpose of this one particular blog that I’m doing here at the moment, to learn how this works on this app here on Facebook. I’ll probably copy it into the blogs I have at Micrtron and on Tumblr to see how well it works there, trying to find an audience as I’ven’t really found my blogging audience yet.
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That was the only blog in it that was worth keeping. I deleted one copy of it so far, now that I’ve discovered that it actually published it multiple times. I had input a video – a test video of something on _Doctor_Who_ of something I found the moment I logged onto Facebook without effort in order to test how well that did, and it didn’t do anything at all!

I may change the grade of the app from “F” to a “D” at least. On a scale of grades “A”, “B”, “C”, “D”, “E”, and “F” with “A’ being the best and “F” being the worst.

I know that it isn’t completely Scientology of me to critique anything, but I felt that that particular piece of software needed a review once I tried it out. Sorry! There that I couldn’t give it a completely passing grade, but I know how difficult creating Facebook apps, pages, and groups are, because I’ve tried all three before and Facebook apps are absolutely the most difficult of the three.

Being able to add this blog site, Micrtron, to an Blogging app called “Network Blogging” on Facebook, seemed to work nicely, but I’ve yet to access this blog from there. I was overwhelmed by the number of other blogs in the listing there from a multitude of websites that they all come from there. I’ll probably test it out better in the near future. I’m getting rather tired now.

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I know that I’ve several attempts at creating Facebook apps that have failed so far.  I’m not proud of my work on them yet enough to promote them.  So, I understand the person who created this one which is probably more difficult than the ones I’ve tried to create so far.  So, my hat’s off to you, even though I’m a gal, and I’m not supposed to be doing that.  At least, you, the creator of the blogging tool I’m talking about here, tried.  Some of it actually works.  But, it’s hard to use.

What works better on Facebook is an app I didn’t make myself, though just last week, I tried to create an app for my Micrtron (a Wordpress site) blog site to give folks Facebook access to it to see how well that would work, and I don’t think I got it that far, and it’s probably another defunct Facebook app.  But, today, I came across a blogging app from someone in my friends’ listing running down my newsfeed and so, I thought I’d give it a try.  It is called “Network Blogging” and it allows all sorts of blogging sites to become accessible via Facebook via that app.  I managed to get postings of both my Micrtron and this site here’s blogging sites!  It works great!

http://micrtron.com/2011/05/05/i-tried-out-various-blogging-apps-tools-pages-sites-both-in-the-past-recently/

http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/index.php

http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=8826748878

Because there are so many URLs included in this blog here at Tumblr, I decided that the best link to put in at the side here, is just the one to Facebook for now.