Spitting Into the Wind

I moderate all my comments unless they are authenticated, then I am just notified about them. Today I received a comment from someone who just wanted to say "Hi". It is so refreshing to see a comment with no links, not even an email address, after all the trouble I've had with spam commenters on my weblogs. So hi to you too Panda. Incidentally, she said hi from the Big Brother page, probably the post with the most comments on this site.

Don't tell me people are doing online searches for Big Brother. I have to agree with one of the commenters and say I hate the show. At the time of the "incident" though, the internet was a-buzz, and I just had to add my 2 cents worth. People love that show or hate it. There's no middle ground.

I've found too, that leaving comments on other people's weblogs is a good way for them to leave a comment on yours. You can't be so totally rapt up in your own website that you don't get out there and have a look around. Weblogs are so varied, there's no two alike.

I have 10 weblogs that I currently post to. I try to post to them all at least once a week, and hopefully more often than that. Finding the time is usually the problem. What to write about is sometimes a problem too. I have a folder on my hard drive that I save snippets to if I find something interesting that I want to talk about when I'm cruising around the internet. I save the URLs of the site, and any relevant info in a text file, and when I'm stuck, I look in the folder. Perhaps that's when, you, the reader, think it's a pretty lame post. :)

Today I found an interesting little tool on the Main Menu page in Movable Type. Down the bottom of the page you can customise the page view, and one of the options is to arrange the blogs by recently updated. I've selected that, and now every time my MT opens to that page I can see at a glance which weblogs need attending to, and where I've most recently posted.