Comments on: ‘Sup Saturday: Open Thread for Bloggers with Gift Cert Contest

By: Keira

Keira — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:48:41 +0000

@Carolyn Crane Gravatars are linked through email addresses. You can set up a few, but it's probably best to set up just one and change it when you want to do so instead of alternating. Once you register (and register with the email you want to attach the image too) you'll have 4 options for uploading an image: from your computer, from the internet, from a webcam, and a previously uploaded image. Select the image and then it'll give you an option for cropping. I suggest using a large image for better quality. After that you simply give the picture a rating and confirm it to use as your main gravatar. Hope that helps!

By: Jessica

Jessica — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:54:32 +0000

@Sherry Thomas: Thanks! I guess what you say is true, if the roof is a very low one. I'm very happy right now with the people who visit. That's all I know.

By: Sherry Thomas

Sherry Thomas — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:18:25 +0000

What I find interesting is how a blog becomes popular. This blog’s popularity shot through the roof in the very short amount of time it’s been around. You don’t provide daily reviews. You don’t comment on every issue. There is a near-complete absence of @#$%-stirring. And you even discuss academic topics–and I read them, even though my brain is better wired for mindless gossip.

And I come back and I visit and I read most of the comments too.

Is it just the voice then? The particular RRR presence? The brainy but not snooty company? The interestingness that is the sum of all the parts?

(This train of thoughts brought on by this post, which I totally didn’t think I’d bother either read or follow.)

By: Anne Fescharek

Anne Fescharek — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:30:48 +0000

I have a blog (that is, I have claimed “www.softfuzzysweater.com) but I don’t know what to do to set it up! I know I want to devote to romance, but what to add? Where to go?

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:26:12 +0000

@Kate: I loved your Windflower post (and, for anyone wondering, when I say loved, it doesn't mean I agreed with everything, just that I found it very worth reading), and was going to link to it in my Monday Morning Stepback post but I saw Ana and Thea already did. Thanks for the heads up!

By: Maili

Maili — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:54:19 +0000

@Janine:
Oh, I don’t mean having it back up on the site. I meant seeing the banner itself. I have seen it now after finding a copy of the banner at the Wayback Machine yesterday.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://dearauthor.com

By: Janine

Janine — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:06:47 +0000

@Maili:

Until you mentioned it here, I forgot I created that DA banner! I’d love to see it again because I can’t remember anything about it except the colour scheme and the stamp.

I loved that banner that you did for us. Unfortunately I don't think it will make a comeback because it said "Best Regards, the two Ja(y)nes," and there are a lot more than two of us now.

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 03:49:16 +0000

Just wanted to mention briefly that I (finally) threw down on the Windflower World Tour, and that the book will be off to Literary Escapism next. Thanks for the open thread!

By: rigmarole

rigmarole — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:49:53 +0000

I have a nice, roomy place to store my images online, but it cost a fair chunk of change to get it. If I didn’t have it, I’d probably bring the resolution on those hi-res images down and upload those to Photobucket or Flickr, and save the originals, if I couldn’t bear to part with them, on my external hard drive. (Which I could not live without, by the way.)

Until very recently, I’ve shared images without much thought about where I got them and whether they were meant to be passed around willy-nilly. (I’m not talking about personal photos, mostly just fun stuff found in communities, et cetera.) A few months ago, I started posting much more regularly on Tumblr, and now I’m trying to be a little more conscientious. I put a notice at the top of my page, saying that people can contact me at [email address] about credit.

I think I’ve just got this attitude that the internet is the Wild West and anything goes, or close to it, anyway. That’s almost a decade of doing what I please, so it’ll take a while to adjust my habits. I’ll get there, though.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:57:47 +0000

@Tumperkin: I also have been enjoying Victoria’s blog a whole lot. she has recently been doing a series of posts on Dorothy Sayers’ Peter Wimsey novels as adapted for Tv, and before that she had a great list of recommended steampunk. Here is the link: http://victoriajanssen.blogspot.com/

I also miss RfP’s blog (although I am grateful when she occasionally shows up here) and Miriam’s (where are youuuuuuuuuuuuuu???????).

And of course, I love SuperWendy.