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Much-Needed Site Change

For reasons I can't really remember I've only ever been able to post one blog per day on here *. No idea why I did it that way. Or why I've left it like that so long.

In a way it was nice to only be able to "waste" a certain amount of time each day on blogging. On the flipside it's always been detrimental to the site.

I often have an "I should blog about that" moment after having already blogged that day and, so, I then create a draft entry along with a mental note to use it for tomorrow's post.

What then happens is a backlog of posts (assuming I have more than a couple of these blog-inspiring moments per day) builds up and often many of them never see the light of day. Normally because, by the time I get round posting them, they're irrelevant, old news or I've just plain forgotten what the scribbled notes I made are on about.

So, from now on, feel free to visit more than once a day!

* Heck, when I started blogging, way back, each month's blog entries were stored in a single RT field in one document. I had to edit the document each day by hand and remember to create a new document on the 1st of each month. Now I just do it all from Windows Live Writer...

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  1. I know exactly what you mean. All the great ideas seem to come after you have just published something. I do the same think with creating draft documents which turn into new posts for other days.

    I also notice your comment "waste". I never think that blogging is wasting time. You never know who might be reading your comments and it maybe that they are more valued than what you think.

  2. Do you update the site directly from Windows Live Writer?

    • avatar
    • Jake Howlett
    • Mon 14 Sep 2009 02:50 PM

    Yes, Ian. No need for a Notes client or browser login.

  3. Weird, I seem to remember early versions of my website only allowed one a day as well. Can't remember why...

    Do you need some sort of API for the Windows Live Writer to work?

    • avatar
    • Jake Howlett
    • Tue 15 Sep 2009 02:55 AM

    Look in the Blogsphere template or the Domblog (my outdated version) for example of API to post to Domino from Live Writer (and MS Word et al).

    Jake

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