I'VE HAD A BLOGGING ADVENTURE!!

I haven't had one in a month nearly. It's been nearly a month since I posted on Swing Scene too.

Pour Out is going through a series on Which Which, which are superior sandwiches for real, having, and reviewing each sandwich they offer. I happened to win a contest in the comments. How sweet is that.

So I realized something today, Swing Scene has nearly twice as many hits as my myspace. I have 83 friends! So I must be doing something right on Swing Scene.

Yet another blogging adventure (3 in one day. 4Rest at Pet Peeving (the whore) has tagged me as a successful blogger (? - well I have had 3 adventures to talk about today, and this could make a 4th) with this simple secrets for success thing. Seems I'm supposed to fulfill some debt to the blogosphere by posting little habits I have that make me successful. I'll do that as soon I'm either a) successful or b) find habits I won't be embarrassed to publish.

Oh, and another thing (which really makes no sense since this will post ahead of my previous entry, but oh well), the traffic on Swing Scene is really taking off. I'm up to nearly 1300 views now, there must be someone reading it because there are typically 3 or 4 view a day, and even a few times in the past month I've had into the 20's.

Now that is a blogging adventure.

So My Blogging Adventures isn't much more than monthly at the moment.

I think I'm convinced that I like wordpress better than blogger, especially when using ScribeFire or the Flock blog editor with the technorati tag feature.

I seem to do much more commenting that actual posting to my blogs. I seem to have much more to say in response to others blogs than on my own, though I did start a new one about wine which I haven't written anything on yet because I haven't opened a bottle of wine since I started it... I have such great intentions.

Maybe I'll start a blog of nothing but comments to other sites, that might work quite nicely actually, it could be kind of fun. It'd give something that would grow every day too. Actually, that could become the primary feature of My Blogging Adventures.

I still can't decide which I like better for bloggin, wordpress or blogger. I like the templates that wordpress has to offer more, but I like that blogger css is 100% customizable.

I like that wordpress provides some basic statistics.

I like the basic dashboard layout better at wordpress, but I like the easy of navigating between blogs in the blogger dashboard (though wordpress has improved theirs significantly)

I like that you can preset categories in wordpress and not have to remember all the labels you use.

Blogger seems easier to blog collaboratively with folks though, at least the whole invitation system for new contributors seems much more user friendly than wordpress.

I like that I can make Flock work well with wordpress (I haven't tried it with blogger since the recent updates).

I'm a man with torn loyalties

It has been a while but I'm finally having some blogging adventures again. Things on Swing Scene are blowing up — views are just under 900 now, I've new things to talk about on the Music City Motion blog and of course all the commenting I have for blogs of my friends.

I'm involved in another dance event, and as part of the planning process we are using collaborative blogging to keep up with all the activities and conversations without huge email threads. So far it seems to be working quite well, not to mention the body of information we'll have already at our fingertips for the next event.

So stay tuned adventure lovers, there's a whole big blogging world I'm starting to explore again

The problem with blogging for me is that I have too much to say. I need a topic about which I have a little bit to say every day, rather than an entire dissertation every 2 or 3 weeks like I do on Swing Scene.

Be more patient Smitty