Re: [h-cost] Re: OT: LJ/ blogspot/Yahoo360 etc.
michaela wrote: In fact more people are willing to ask question in their own journals that fill up a list with talk on a minor subject. Probably because they have been scared off in the past for doing so. I find all the forms of communication online useful. There are nuggets of gold on all the lists and journals I am involved with. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com I totally agree with you, Michaela. Thank you for sharing your personal story. Yours is a blog I enjoy reading. And, interestingly, enough, it's my circle of favorite blogs which keep me inspired when I get stuck in a project. More than once, I have e-mailed the owner of a blog and asked them about their thread choices, or their accessories, or whether or not to pre-wash something. I've always gotten a friendly response. I think some people are just naturally more open--I don't enjoy talking about the daily grind, but rather about my projects and what status they are in. As a self-taught seamstress, I find that open and friendly dialogue much, much more helpful than any high-level sewing book. Books are great for research, but it's rather hard to say, Oi, book! Does this make my bum look big? Marie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
Re: [h-cost] Re: OT: LJ/ blogspot/Yahoo360 etc.
I think some people are just naturally more open--I don't enjoy talking about the daily grind, but rather about my projects and what status they are in. As a self-taught seamstress, I find that open and friendly dialogue much, much more helpful than any high-level sewing book. Books are great for research, but it's rather hard to say, Oi, book! Does this make my bum look big? That's just the difference between whether you prefer personal/emotional/socially supportive dialog or straight information without it. A great many sewing and wardrobe planning books will tell you things like, Having large, bright flowers or wide horizontal stripes across the back of your pants is guaranteed to make your bum look large. And if you've got any doubt, consult a mirror. Information is one thing and social support is another. The two don't have to be connected by any means. Not everyone has a strong need for social support/approval. I agree that's what many blogs seem to be for, it just holds no interest for me personally. Fran Lavolta Press http://www.lavoltapress.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Quoting Hope Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd like to recommend the use of blogs for another reason, one that we recommend to our faculty and students quite often: personal organization. While bookmarking sites like del.icio.us are great at helping you organize your bookmarks, blogs can help you in a slightly different way. While blog posts are generally organized chronologically, and you can organize them by category, at the heart of blogging systems is a search engine. So, one way to use a blog is as a storage place for items or articles you find online, to which you can add your comments. Now *that* I didn't know -- and that's a big plus right now. I use 3 different computers with 3 different sets of bookmarks. *sigh* Granted, the set on the laptop is probably the best organized, it's my primary machine, but still Does anybody know of any good bookmark management tools? susan - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: OT: LJ/ blogspot/Yahoo360 etc.
Fran wrote: Not everyone has a strong need for social support/approval. I agree that's what many blogs seem to be for, it just holds no interest for me personally. I have two: one LiveJournal, for miscellaneous ramblings on how I'm doing personally, and another on Blogspot, which is for articles related to my research. The LiveJournal one I started mostly because several of my friends are on LJ, and it seemed like a good place to put the occasional blather about weather in the Central Valley, the health of my cat, what I saw on my trip to England this year, and other stuff that would mostly be of interest to family and close friends. It's a way of letting that small audience know how I'm doing without having to write each one individually. The Paternosters blog (http://paternosters.blogspot.com) is something I started to force myself to sit down and WRITE about my research on the history of rosary beads. For about a year and a half I was producing one to two articles a week; it got sidetracked somehow after my England trip this spring and I haven't gotten back to it, but I certainly have not run out of things to talk about. I find that writing gives me more ideas about things to research and write about, and I've learned a lot in the process. I like it also because it's somewhere to post the answers to FAQs and anything else I want to make available, and yet it's simple to maintain just by sitting down and typing something; I don't have to create or configure entire Web pages to hold the information. 0 Chris Laning | [EMAIL PROTECTED] + Davis, California http://paternoster-row.org - http://paternosters.blogspot.com ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
RE: [h-cost] Re: OT: LJ/ blogspot/Yahoo360 etc.
I'd like to recommend the use of blogs for another reason, one that we recommend to our faculty and students quite often: personal organization. I don't have a blog or LJ as yet, despite 5 years nagging (erm, I mean encouraging) from my children, But lately I have considered it so I could have a place to put thoughts that I want to follow up on AND THAT I CAN FIND THE NEXT TIME I LOOK FOR IT! I have journalled for many years (or tried to) but paper copies get misplaced. I always know where LJ is. My kids assure me that I can keep it locked and allow friends only, meaning nobody if I wish it. I like options in organizational strategies! Laurie ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Quoting zelda crusher [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd like to recommend the use of blogs for another reason, one that we recommend to our faculty and students quite often: personal organization. I don't have a blog or LJ as yet, despite 5 years nagging (erm, I mean encouraging) from my children, But lately I have considered it so I could have a place to put thoughts that I want to follow up on AND THAT I CAN FIND THE NEXT TIME I LOOK FOR IT! *snicker* You should see the folder of to-Do lists that I have! I contemplate typing them up and organizing them from time to time . I have journalled for many years (or tried to) but paper copies get misplaced. I always know where LJ is. My kids assure me that I can keep it locked and allow friends only, meaning nobody if I wish it. I like options in organizational strategies! Yeah -- my son is an LJer too. Don't know if he'd friend me or not (he's just turned 18) ... susan - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Susan B. Farmer wrote: Does anybody know of any good bookmark management tools? There are a couple of social bookmarking sites. I use http://del.icio.us (all about it here: http://del.icio.us/help/) The advantages are several: - your bookmarks are stored online so it doesn't matter what computer you are using, you will always have access to them - the tags (keywords) you use to describe your bookmarks get compiled into the entire system so you and people who use the same tags as you can find things you have bookmarked--spreading the work and the wealth, as it were (i's called building folksonomies, i.e taxonomies or naming conventions determined by the people who use them instead of by an authority) - if you use the Firefox web browser (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) there is an add-on that works with del.icio.us that let's you add a button to your toolbar so you can add bookmarks with the click of a mouse - you can build a network of people with whom you want to share bookmarks, and they can share their bookmarks with you - and then there are the cool things related to RSS that let you pour your bookmarks into your blog and such--but let's not get carried away... We now return you to your regularly scheduled sewing... - Hope ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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Quoting Hope Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Susan B. Farmer wrote: Does anybody know of any good bookmark management tools? There are a couple of social bookmarking sites. I use http://del.icio.us (all about it here: http://del.icio.us/help/) The advantages are several: thanks! susan - Susan Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Tennessee Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium/ ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I am just starting to use this system as well, and it is taking awhile for me to input every bookmark I have, and add in the tags, notes, etc. It will take me a bit of work over some time, but it looks like it is worth doing. But I wanted to comment that the Firefox add on has also been put into the Explorer system as well, as that is what I use. Kimiko Hope Greenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - if you use the Firefox web browser (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) there is an add-on that works with del.icio.us that let's you add a button to your toolbar so you can add bookmarks with the click of a mouse - How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messengers low PC-to-Phone call rates. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
[h-cost] Re: OT: LJ/ blogspot/Yahoo360 etc.
I'll chime in with a wooden nickel or two, for what it's worth. I've never gotten into that document every stitch diary thing. I am too busy thinking about the work I am doing, where it needs to go and how to get there to worry about where my camera is or accessing some convoluted file system (my husband set up my system, and thus is a reflection of his odd, uncommunicative mind... not very user friendly.) to tell everyone how my day's work went. I have people asking me to do it, but I am just not wired for it. I never kept up with a diary as a kid, I am lousy at sending letters - I have the attention span of a gnat even for email, for that matter. Occasionally I'll take a pic or two if it's something really bizarre or way left of the accepted centre. I would rather show someone in person, talk face to face and interact directly. That is when I really start flooding with ideas and information. My network is also to blame for my lack of readily available photographs; my camera software is in my husbands computer which is an Apple, thus I haven't the foggiest how things work. Asking him is like pulling hen's teeth so, I find myself very efficient in my photography. Have I found other's LJ and blogs useful and interesting? Occasionally. Do I tend to find a plethora of information I don't care about/need to know? Yes. I am with Dawn on this one, I keep my stuff on my website (which I can't even keep up to that - I have *years* of stuff that has to be put on there) which having to do all that technical schtuff to get it looking right and operating efficiently, one finds good reason to not post every last iota of thought onto it. All this quite ironic coming from a person who has a difficult time *not* talking for extended periods of time. ;-) Kathy Ermine, a lion rampant tail nowed gules charged on the shoulder with a rose Or barbed, seeded, slipped and leaved vert(Fieldless) On a rose Or barbed vert a lion's head erased gules. Its never too late to be who you might have been. -George Eliot Tosach eólais imchomarc. - Questioning is the beginning of knowledge. http://www.sengoidelc.com/node/131 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I don't much care to do a blog or read most of the blogs out there. I know they have their uses, like when my niece was studying in Germany and could post what was going on for the family at home. And occassionally I'll look at someone's dress diary if there's a direct link to something that peaks my interest. But in general I prefer to keep my plans to myself until I see how they're going to turn out and there's also a time thing. I can see where doing a blog would end up eating time that should otherwise be for doing one of my many projects. So while blogs are okay for other people, I can live without them. alex ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I'm another non-blogger. I think it would be sad if the information shared on this list was diminished because a majority decided to do blogs instead. I'm on a number of lists where occasionally someone will post a link to a blog or web page if they have posted something relevant or want to show a finished project. Also in most cases any comments are posted to the blog or personally to the individual rather than back to the list. A key phrase for me is signal to noise ratio how much is posted that's of interest to me compared to other information? I might read a blog if I like someone's writing style, and then there are some that are just plain amazing: http://houseoffame.blogspot.com/ -Carol ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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I have two lj's and am pretty open about why I started them and why I actually have two. I started my first one to record how I was dealing with a chronic debilitating illness. The fact was I couldn't write at the time but typing could be done without causing too much strain. I could also choose to go back and spell check if need be. I never did because very few people were reading it and I never expected many to even if they did stumble across my journal. I soon decided to make it friends only because I didn't want to bore many people about how the latest mouth ulcer was going and in fact so that no stranger who might be lurking would know when I was in a particularly vulnerable state. Pretty soon my costuming notes, outgrew my daily notes so I created a costume specific journal where I could nut out ideas and those who wondered how on earth we costumers actually work could see the whole process. You'd be surprised how helpful it is for those starting to see that those who do this regularly manage to deal with the cat or a child or simple working out a pattern piece. I've never gotten into that document every stitch diary thing. I am too busy thinking about the work I am doing, where it needs to go and how to get there to worry about where my camera is or accessing some convoluted file system (my husband set up my system, and thus is a reflection of his odd, uncommunicative mind... not very user friendly.) to tell everyone how my day's work went. I have people asking me to do it, but I am just not wired for it. I never kept up with a diary as a kid, I am lousy at sending letters - I have the attention span of a gnat even for email, for that matter. With many online journals you have a small client that runs in the background that you can just click on and type up a really brief note. This is the only reason I manage to keep up regularly. If I had to log in through the website and then upload photos every time it would languish like my written journals I started when I was younger. I'm not saying this would be useful for you, but even I didn't realise there was such an ability until about a year into having mine. At which time my updates suddenly increased. I find it a much more user friendly place. I can help far more people by giving them a quiet note in their journal than trumpeting across a huge list you could/should have done it this way. In fact more people are willing to ask question in their own journals that fill up a list with talk on a minor subject. Probably because they have been scared off in the past for doing so. I find all the forms of communication online useful. There are nuggets of gold on all the lists and journals I am involved with. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.10/385 - Release Date: 11/07/2006 ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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You are a nuggest of gold in the online world, whatever forum, mailing list, or blog you may be using. I want to say Thank You for sharing what you've learned, and thereby teaching many of us along the way. Kimiko michaela [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find all the forms of communication online useful. There are nuggets of gold on all the lists and journals I am involved with. Michaela de Bruce http://glittersweet.com - Do you Yahoo!? Get on board. You're invited to try the new Yahoo! Mail Beta. ___ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
