How I Blog: Overview

How I Blog: Overview

Friend of the blog Michael Venini posed a question I haven't answered fully in a while: How do I blog? For most people, this would be a pretty simple question to answer. For me, not so much. I post entries through four different outlets, aggregate them here on Scribbles, where I practice the very rare art of ink blogging, and each is done in a different format (yet hopefully retain my unique style). It's a little complicated, so I think I'll start with an overview.

Sumocat's Scribbles: (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/) My ink blog. You're reading it now. Just over four years and 1,300 posts, nearly all of them written in digital ink on a Tablet PC. Entries have almost all been written in Windows Journal then captured as image and text for posting online. Other formats have included cartoon strips, annotated essays, and videos. Posted using Google's Blogger.

Sumocat's Rambles: (http://sumocats.blogspot.com/) My micro/mobile/side blog. I reserve this one for quick entries and photos, usually taken and posted on-the-go from my iPhone via email. Takes advantage of Google's Gmail, Blogger and maps synergy to automatically map the photos, tying the images to locations thanks to the iPhone's geotagging. Other formats include brief text via email and ink via Windows Live Writer and the ink blog plug-in.

Notes to Self: (http://www.evernote.com/pub/sumocat/notes) An experiment with voice blogging via an Evernote shared notebook. Voice notes are recorded on my iPhone using the Evernote app. Starting to include inked and typed entries too. Mostly mobile, but I'm planning to expand this into a catch-all idea blog. Not indexed, but fully searchable within Evernote. Offers publishing with privacy.

GottaBeMobile: (http://www.gottabemobile.com/) Where I contribute news and opinions regarding mobile technology and connectivity. Entries are typed, but I try to include an image in every post, which is sometimes annotated by pen. Pretty normal blogging otherwise. System is Wordpress.

"The Thoughtstream": (http://feeds.feedburner.com/SumocatsScribbles)Basically the aggregation of these four sources. Analogous to a "lifestream" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestreaming) but I am more selective of what I publish. Content from the latter three sources appear in the sidebar on Scribbles and their RSS feeds are spliced into my main feed using Yahoo! Pipes. Each item is tagged by their source (Scr, Rmb, N2S, and GBM), so someone familiar with my formatting can know what to expect from each feed item.

Okay, that's it for now. More to come.


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