Blogging A&S

A Bit About Blogging

When my thoughts begin to focus on a blog article, oftentimes I get a traffic jam of conflicting ideas. An idea for an article typically comes from an artist place: the subject (furniture design, craft, home improvement), content (article flow, words, theme, photos, whitespace, headings, font) and the mood (how-to, humor, rant, query). Or you can say its designing an article that fits the design of the blog site.

What is the A in A&S? It is the whole art of starting with an idea and, through some process or the other, cranking out articles that fall into place on the website.
And then comes the S part: Science. The technical part of formatting into HTML, processing photos, gathering the digital bits that are on various devices and clouds and wrangling them on to the site.. Operating systems, networks, servers, protocols, apps(!), etc.

All this causes my writings to, on occasion, become a rant. So this section of my blog is where I can go, rant, explore topics and techniques of the blogging itself. Look around at other blogs and you will see I am not the only one. So a great place to fume; keeps the main blog pages cleaner and on topic. I like that. Is it just me or has Charlie Sheen ruined the word rant?

So I recently switched jobs (yeah again) and went from tons of time for blogs, twitter and workshop shenanigans to very little time. When I get a spare minute, I'm working on a box with inlay on top, nested dining trays. I'm also gaining on a custom design for a cherry work desk. I plan to write blog posts on all of these, so wish me luck!

On a positive note, I finally switched my tablet to Android and am sifting through the many apps. So far it looks like it is technically possible to edit text/photo, process and publish a blog entirely from a tablet. However, I find it awfully painful as compared to doing the same job on a laptop. I hope one day soon the apps will improve to make this practical. I did find Photoshop Touch a pleasure to use and has many of the photo editing features that are not normally on a mobile app.