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Blogging
Show your art
Describing why I started the Art showcase Blog Carnival.
Anyone who has ever started a blog knows that it is very hard to find your audience. You tell your friends. You link to your site from your social bookmarking site. You try to digg yourself.
But with all your efforts you may be lucky if you can [...] -
Blogging
Ever more computer problems
After the problems I had with my new PC last week I went back to using my old computer. Which worked nicely for a few days. But Saturday windows tried to install the new windows xp sp3 upgrade. After that I started getting blue screens of death.
My dealer advised my to install a [...] -
Art sites, Blogging
Watching beauty go by
Describing the art work of Arne Hoffmann, Lorena Alvarez and Albert Watson.
One of my biggest hobbies is watching people. Just sitting in a little cafe watching the people walk by.
Arne Hoffmann photographs people being beautiful. Either by the way he stages them or by the clothes they wear.
Lorena Alvarez writes books and illustrates them. She [...] -
Blogging
Grinding to the future
Making a decision about the future of this blog.
I’m finding that I’m slowly getting to a point of which I naively thought I would never reach it.
When I started this blog I thought that I would be drawing beautiful pictures without ever having to practice technique. Since I have a photographic memory I thought that [...] -
Blogging
My first $2000
A little blogging fun.
I just found a site where they can calculate the monetary worth of your site.
The worth of my site is a little over 2000 dollar. But since I have no plans of selling my domain I’ll never get it.
But it is fun to know that my work hasn’t been for nothing. [...] -
Blogging
Coming full circle
Going from “Beautiful art sites” to Twitter and back again.
I don’t know whether there is any one around from the time I started this blog. But those who are will know that when I started with this blog I daily featured an art site.
There were two reasons to feature other sites. For one thing I [...] -
Blogging
Commenting on comments
01.10.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsPutting down some ground rules for people who want to comment on my blog.
When I started this blog early last year I was very tiered and a little afraid of comments.
Being autistic means that it takes a lot of effort to communicate with people. Being tiered means that you can’t defend yourself against critics.
But I [...] -
Blogging
12 reasons to blog
Why do I blog?
I just caught myself writing something strange.
In an answer to some one who had commented on one of my drawings I said that I might try some technique that might improve my drawing skills but that I had to think about the impact it would have on my blog.
The strange thing being [...] -
Blogging
For all who sell herbal plant thingies
Celebrating my 1000th piece of spam.
A few months ago Matt wrote a post about the relationship between having a lot of visitors and getting a lot of spam. I thought the idea was rather funny so I kept an eye out for spam and it seems that Matt was right. The more visitors I [...] -
Blogging
Don’t mess with Texas
Thinking about the kind of audience I’m targeting my blog at.
(Have you ever noticed how your life slowly grinds to a halt when you give in to your fears? I’d better start drawing again soon otherwise I won’t have a blog left to target.)
Before I started with this blog I had a Dutch blog for [...]
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