. Spinning .

Help!

You wouldn’t believe what I’ve been through to correct the feed here.  I’ve risked all I’ve written in over three years, some 3600+ entries, disconnected, deleted, republished, reconnected, and still, on the IE toolbar feed brings me to up-to-date to March 24, 2004. 

With all that happened that summer and the results that linger beyond, believe me, I would LOVE to go back to that date.  Woulda’s, coulda’s, shoulda’s–if I could have seen what lay ahead, there wouldn’t be the grief I’m going through now.

Anyway, even the mighty power of the web and all its magic can’t do that, so please do let me know, if I’m on your feed system, if it brings you to the latest (today’s entry, 3-15-07) or back to the merry old days of March 24, 2004.  You can leave a comment here or e-mail me at smgct1@comcast.net.

Thanks, I’d appreciate it!

I was alerted to the fact that a feed was not updating, the latest entry shown being one dated March 24, 2004.  In checking out the problem, I realized that when I added Hypercompendia on feedburner, another account was issued to Spinning.  That one worked–but jammed on Sunday, March 11, 2007.  With no subscribers but me (I’ve been using Bloglines and just added a watch on Spinning to see how it worked), I deleted it. 

But the old feed has quite a number of subscribers (thank you!).  I don’t know if you’re getting the updates, but there has to be about 3000 entries made since March of 2004.  I’m going to attempt to fix this problem but in doing so, I may have to delete the feed and start from scratch–meaning I may lose you unless it makes the transfer of subscribers (as promised) or you resubscribe.

But then again, if you haven’t read any of my writings for three years, you probably won’t miss me.

Wish me luck.

I’ve done this before, opened new weblogs when it seemed that my obsession with something overtook the weblog and sent it in another direction.  Then when I finally decide to separate the topic out into a new blog, I end up either duplicating some posts that seem relevant to both places, or sit and ponder which blog a post should go into.  This, after going through all the effort of transferring 120 postings because it took me that long to decide to make the move.

Well, I’m trying to come up with a solution and what seems best is a link to the post from here to there, or there to here, though the idea sort of carries with it a sense of self-promotion that taints the plan.

I’ve got a list of things to post about this morning, from playing cards to lemon trees and clouds, and though most will end up in Hypercompendia as new media based, Spinning as well has a lot of interest in new media as the projects are literary-based and you can’t make a split between text and multimedia anymore as a logical division.

But Hypercompendia, as well as Spinning, really, is just as much for my own satisfaction in keeping a record of some of my escapades as for sharing my thoughts with the masses.  (Here’s where I write for myself; where the fiction is still geared towards a need to be read by others.)

Again, this is just a train of thought but certainly a question of the new media means called "blogging."

How embarrassing; realized that an entry I posted some time ago raging against Typepad is a big catcher of hits and it likely isn’t a fair and accurate reporting of my overall contentment with the service.

It was probably at a time when it lost a long posting on me, likely a book review that I’d put a lot of thought into at the time.  Everything I write here is now written straight into the posting box (I copy and paste from the weblog itself into a Word Document for backup every couple days) so that it comes from the mind onto the screen.  If it’s lost, well, aye, there’s the rub. 

In opening up a new weblog yesterday and today, I’m discovering all kinds of goodies that Typepad offers that I would’ve known about had I read their e-mail notices or the opening page once logged in.  Cloud tags, widgets, feeds, and now Vlog It are just a few of the items that I’ve been looking for in the past and am starting to use in the new blog. 

I apologize to Typepad (didn’t send them a special apology cause I was kinda hopin’ they hadn’t caught the nasty post) for my temper tantrum, and while I could delete the post, well…that’d be like trying to change history.

This’ll have to do.