The Qwertyrash Blogs

So I’m a bit slow! Most folks probably discovered iGoogle eons ago. But I’ve just discovered it in the last few days. Yes, I’d looked at it previously, but discounted it as just a bit of clutter on the Google homepage.

However, I’ve now taken the time to explore a few of the other gadgets you can add and found a few that are going to greatly improve how I work.

I am writing this post from one!

Can you believe it? On a single page I now have my Google calendar agenda, my to do list, newspaper headlines, local weather and radar, my gmail, a wikipedia and a dictionary search, and of course, this widget that lets me post entries to QwertyRash!!!!

I don’t know about you, but I’m impressed.

This will change the way I blog because it makes blog posting even more accessible than previously with Ecto or with ScribeFire.

If you haven’t checked it out, you really must.

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Further to my previous post about my work for a commercial website, I was investigating content management systems. I have been happy with Wordpress; however have found it not ideal for the average person who just wants to update web pages occasionally.

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Much to my surprise, I discovered yesterday that my blogs are doing quite nicely all things considered. This is significant as I have posted less than monthly for most of the last year.It’s sort of a kick in the groin coz I alosalsonk, sheesh!

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There’s a common suggestion in the blogosphere that you should blog your passion. I don’t fully subscribe to that theory for a number of reasons

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Computers are distraction devices. I don’t know about you, but at any one time, I can have more than 20 applications running. These include: two email programs; an RSS newsreader; one or two browsers; Word; an image editor; and a slew of other apps.

What this means is not that my computer runs slow - I have 1GB of memory so most times it’s fine - but that each of those programs is a potential distraction - especially the ones that talk to the internet.

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Just read this excellent quote by Kate Grenville in her book for aspiring writers, The Writing Book:The world has enough books and writers already, so unless you find writing satisfying you might as well do something else.The same applies to blogging.

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Yesterday, and article I posted on Apple Matters went front page on Digg. It contained links to both an article on Qwertyrash (Switching to Mac: Useful sites and articles), and CrossOSS.From the experience I learned (re-learned?) some useful things.

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A lot of books on writing tell you to find a distraction free environment. Although I agree it helps tremendously, I’d also argue you should train yourself to work with distractions.

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One important aspect of blogging, and one I fail at sometimes, is responding to readers’ comments.

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Following on from my piece the other day about over informing, which closed with the lines:Reading is activityWriting is productivityTonight I noticed myself reading blogs and pages that weren’t relevant to my main tasks for tonight.

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