Yes, Blogger can be a pain in the butt if, like me, you're HTML illiterate!
For complicated layouts I'd tend to scan in the text and post as a large
image.
Best, Rupert
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From: "marcus slease" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: Poets on Myspace
>I agree with blogs being more useful and interesting in terms of social
>networking. I have been writing on my own blog and reading other
>poetry/poetics blogs from all over the world for about five years. I have
>also used blogging for my poetry classes when I was lecturer. It can be
>fruitful and interesting to see works in progress and hear about new (and
>old) books etc. i only use facebook for announcements for poetry readings
>in london.
>
> Blogs, like facebook and myspace, can get very narcissistic of course.
>
> I do like the idea of adding multimedia. Blogger is limited in terms of
> page layout for poems (or perhaps I just don't know the right coding).
>
> cheers,
>
> Marcus
> www.marcusslease.blogspot.com
>
>
>
> On 26 Sep 2008, at 04:13, Alison Croggon wrote:
>
>> I had two myspace pages, one for poems and one for the SFF books. I
>> just deleted the poetry one last week, because all I was doing was
>> checking in every couple of months to delete spam and add friends. I
>> didn't have the heart to delete the SFF one, because it's full of
>> sweet young fans, but in terms of actually communicating with people I
>> find myspace very clunky, and like Jimmy said, the software is
>> horrible. I think as a promotional tool it's fairly limited, except
>> for music, where it's worked brilliantly.
>>
>> Facebook is much sleeker and easier to use, but again all I do is add
>> friends. I realised I don't really have time for social networking,
>> but it's kind of useful in various ways; I use it to keep an eye on
>> what's going on in indie theatre in Melbourne. I've noticed that all
>> the younger theatre companies here make extensive use of Facebook in
>> terms of contacting audiences, and it works. Blogs are the things that
>> work for me, because they're much more dialogic. But then again, I
>> don't do poetry blogging, although I read them, and making a
>> successful blog that people read regularly is a very large commitment
>> of time and energy, whereas the promise of social networking is that
>> it's easy. Great tool for procrastination, tho.
>>
>> xA
>> --
>> Editor, Masthead: http://www.masthead.net.au
>> Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
>> Home page: http://www.alisoncroggon.com
>
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