I am so excited. Just created https://francesjones.wordpress.com You know that Deborah Conway song It’s Only The Beginning? http://bit.ly/Jn9wL It also came to mind when I got a job at ABC TV aged 23.
I didn’t know whether to use Blogger or WordPress or whatever else, so I left it. I didn’t even grab my username. Oh lordy me. Until now. It’s like Christmas (but being a mother, I now dread December, it means getting exhausted to fulfill others’ commerce-based lies).
Having a blog site means I can be me. I’ve been writing all my life. Finally there is an appreciation for all things literary, for people who are great spellers.
I’m about to post a blog about going for a jog and seeing a dog lost in a bog in the fog. Or was it a hog? Fancy a snog in your togs? Agog? Should I show a log on my vlog? I might drink an egg nogg. Does a wog or a frog use a cog? -Joe Bloggs
I really don’t like the word Blog.
Couldn’t they think of a better word than blog?
blog blog blog blog blog.
vlog vlog vlog vlog vlog.
How about some imagination!
There are so many nice words in this world. Do they need a dictionary? A thesaurus?
Are we stuck with it?
Was it a mistake and they think it’s too late to change it? It’s not too late! But please do it now!
Was it a word a geek nerd made up like the guy who made up Java because it was a word on a list and it was the first legally available one? I like the word Java, I saw that guy on TV, speaking at a Canberra Press Club luncheon.
How about something like Tweet. Twitter. Or does it have to be 4 letters long? Woof. Meow. Baaa. Oink. Aahh…..
Scribbles. Scribes. Thoughtwaves. Streamofconsciousness. Anything but blog.
I intend to have a blog for my business.
But I can’t stand the thought.
I will not call it a blog. I will make up my own word.
Snippets. A slice of life. Slices. Visions. Thoughts. Words. Diary. Journal.
Any ideas of what to call it?
I prefer watching vlogs to reading blogs anyway, because I’m an x-TV journo and pictures tell a thousand words. But surely I don’t need to call it a vlog. That is just pathetic. It sounds Swedish. But Swedes are more fun- they go from hot saunas and jump into icy lakes. Those geeks need to employ creatives to think up good words because they live on for future generations.
I’m over it now. I just have to come to grips with Lulu, Zazzle, moo.com, scrib’d, soft phones, IP phones, a webber. Oh my Goodness, Lordy me. Breathe.
“Relax and go with the flow. Things always work out the best for me.” (Abraham-Hicks)
I was recommended WordPress as the most powerful free, secure, safe, backed-up software around. Notice that it doesn’t have that word in its title? I like WordPress, it reminds me of pressing wildflowers, which I did in scrapbooks one summer with my grandmother in Sussex, aged 5.
All I have to do is hit the word Publish. Is that really all I have to do? Hello world! Here is my * 1st * Weblog.
Tracy- Braggin' Rights
August 20, 2009
Congrats! Yay- I get to leave you your first of many comments!
karenwilde
August 20, 2009
Congratulations and welcome to the wacky world of WordPress. Will enjoy looking out for your posts and how your site develops. 😉
francesjones
August 20, 2009
Shucks, thanks guys. This is exciting, my Inbox gets these messages and I have to click Approve. A whole new world. I thought Twitter and Facebook were interesting. This is a whole nother thing. I can see my Inbox getting a lot fuller with all our comments awaiting moderation. Any tips for a WordPress blog?
nancy
August 21, 2009
FAB-U-LOUS!!
i expected this to be great but it was better – you are very clever and gifted! i hate the word BLOG too!! i am behind you and will put my thinking cap on!
can’t wait for the next installment.
would love to discuss WordPress vs Blogspot…
cheers
Nancee 🙂
francesjones
August 21, 2009
What is Blogspot? Yours looks beautiful, I read all your “blogs,” you’re so clever Nancy Georges. I think it’s all about what’s safe, secure and backed-up. See what I mean? Blogger. I wouldn’t even want to buy a pair of shoes called Blogger. I think we need an international outcry.
I hear WordPress has a CMS- Content Management System- database which I might try, because it’s good to have all your things in one place as long as you can trust it…
CoffeewithZooly
August 21, 2009
Yeah Frances ! great to see you on. This is my alter ego and yes its a blog on blogger.
WordPress is my choice for my work.
You’re not the first to write about another word for blog. Its been going on since Peter first broke up the word weblog into ‘we blog’ in 1999. In fact, Anna Wintour from Vogue ran a competition to get a better word in 2007. Nothing so far.
You’ll get over it ! Lifes too short to worry about it.
francesjones
August 21, 2009
Hi Zooly, pleased to meet you.
This is so educational. Who is Peter? Is he still alive?!
So what’s Anna going to do about it now? I’m sure she would easily have got a better word from a one year old.
Too bad, so sad, as my Aboriginal cameraman used to say with a smile.
Ruth
August 21, 2009
Hay Frances….Found your email in my junk mail folder. Maybe that’s where all my missing bits have gone!
Good stuff.. write away…
Ruth Moncrieff
Sheryl
September 1, 2009
Hey! So you do have a …”blog-Vlog” using wordpress! Thanks for your comments @ my blog :o)
Matt
October 2, 2009
going against the grain here but I kinda like “blog” actually – very onomatopeatic onamatapia ooh sod it, very Dr Suessy(?) like making a snowball and chucking it on the net “Blog !” there it is , stuck for ever.
francesjones
October 5, 2009
You always make me smile 🙂
Tony Hollingsworth
March 20, 2010
Hi Frances
I just noticed this, your “1st weblog” post when I saw you link to it in Google Wave (I’m reading the 20th October #GWSUG Wave)
I love blogs and blogging, and do find it challengin to get into the routine of posting regularly (it requires discipline, and preparation for starters) plus I enjoy Twitter so much for so many reasons its a major reason why I don’t write enough blog posts.
I really want to encourage as many people as I can to start a blog (often recommending Posterous as its the easiest way to get started right now)
For example I recommended Catriona Pollard start using Posterous late last year and she has with aplomb, I think she has 2 or 3 now, all building community and sharing great content. I think she even got her parents blogging!
Anyway glad you’re still blogging and no doubt will see you at the coffee mornings or user group.
Cheers
Tony Hollingsworth
Frances Jones
March 20, 2010
Hello Tony,
What a surprise! After a swim at Wylies I come home to this. It makes me smile. James Purser @purserj often says Good morning micro bloggers, on Twitter.
I’ve just posted some photos from Wylies on Posterous http://francesjones.posterous.com/wylies . A place you are familiar with.
I’ve got a Flickr site, but haven’t worked out how to use it yet. And I’ll be getting that Nikon D90 camera soon.
I enjoyed facilitating that #gwsug meets #nscm with you.
I can imagine you don’t find much time for writing longer posts, but you certainly write well when you do.
From the look of my “Daily Posterous Subscriptions” a lot of us from #nscm are using Posterous because it’s quick, easy and not too slow to download the photos.
I only write when I get the inspiration to, otherwise I don’t bother. It comes out much faster and easily that way, often on the back of a scrap of paper during a walk around Centennial Park or on a bus.
I’ll have quite a few pieces of writing on my new website…
Frances