It is dead easy, Patrick. Go to blogger.com and follow the instructions.
It's like your own literary allotment <g> Andrew
On 26 March 2010 03:04, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> I must find out how to make a Blog thingy -- inflict myself upon avid
> (rabid?) readers P-unblogged
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Stephen Vincent
> Sent: 25 March 2010 17:04
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Blogs
>
> Heah, after 7 years, I still enjoy making my blog - short snip or long
> prose
> tracts, full of pictures or not - a totally searchable archive now of
> looking at the world. I like the absolute versatility of the format, and
> the
> fact that I do not have to conform to commercial media constrictions. (I do
> my version of haiku on Facebook) In summers I get my 30 to 40 visits a
> day, and, winter & spring, 50 to 70, unless it is a real hot subject, it
> has
> gone up to 3000 in one day. By virtue of Google and other search engines,
> the archive is like a publisher's backlist where a "search" will take folks
> to something written years ago. It is the 'sitemeter' that tells the real
> tale of real readers. Three or four times a day, someone will be on for
> twenty to thirty minutes actually, I assume, taking time to read closely.
> Those are the ones, tho I may never hear from them, that I value, or make
> me
> think what I have written is of value.
>
> In addition to all that, the blog has been an incubator for essays
> published
> by others, interest in poems, book promotion, gallery shows of my haptic
> work, etc., etc.
>
> Stephen Vincent
> http://stephenvincent.net/blog/
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