Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i don't have a blog because i view it as quite a conceit. the few blogs > i've perused (aside from Joel Spolsky's excellent Joel on Software) seem > to me to be just exercises in self-gratification.
I have a blog. Mostly it's random URLs and cool things I run across while reading ACM Technews, Slashdot, Freshmeat, my e-mail, #linuxhelp and other things. For example, I've blogged: - useful shell scripts - Emacs LISP fragments (plenty of these) - interesting Intent To Package announcements from the Debian mailing list Basically, I use it for anything I want to remember. I can do that because I blog within Emacs, so blogging fits within my workflow. I incidentally publish it to the Web so that I can access it from elsewhere (just in case I don't have my laptop (rare!)). Other people sometimes run across nifty tidbits in my blog, and because my TODOs are also posted, I get help on them as well. Trying to going back on topic: I've tried blogging through web frontends, and I found it too much of a hassle. Blogging from within Emacs allows me access to a great deal of context information, which is why practically all of my blog entries and tasks have references to contacts, e-mail, or other pages. My wikiblog hits the sweet spot. I'm not confined to a strict chronological ordering. I can branch off different pages for details or reorganize my text. planner.el didn't even start out as a blogging engine. It's actually a daily organizer, but combined with another Emacs package for remembering short tidbits of information, it's actually quite powerful. I liked planner.el and remember.el so much that I volunteered to maintain it, and working on the Emacs LISP packages has really deepened my appreciation of OSS. <giggle> Plus, look, I'm a Debian packager now - although still not a Debian Developer; my packages are sponsored by Ohashi Akira. I blog to remember. I can't tell you how many times I've done M-x planner-search-notes to bring up something I _knew_ I blogged before, and how time-saving this is. My blog tends to be more on the technical, random, not-quite-organized side, and I feel inordinately happy when other people write in with suggestions or comments. That said, it's not always technical - I've been posting short stories and reflections on it! -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Ateneo CS faculty geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, making computer science education fun http://sacha.free.net.ph/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
