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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Blogging with Blogger

It might seem trivial but for certain types of storytelling one medium may be better than another.

For example I have several blogs I post to on Google's Blogger. This is one of them. What bothers me about Blogger is the way it inverts posts, so the oldest posts are at the back of the blog. Why is this an issue?

For me its an issue as I am writing a science fiction story and post new sections to it as I write them. So what happens is you get the latest written section, but you then have to go to the trouble of navigating all the way back to the first post if you want to know the whole story. I think this affects new viewers of the blog regularly. The find the most recent page, and then stop there. So today I have "gathered" all of the posts for my science fiction story, the first part of which is called Enter the Mass Cancelled Square Dance, by Nik Alinaru (me).

So you can go to the old version:

 http://videofeedback4.blogspot.com/2012/02/enter-mass-cancelled-square-dance.html

And find your way back and forth through the posts to gather the whole story, or you can go here:

http://videofeedback4.blogspot.com/

And get the whole story on one page.

Since this part of the story is essentially finished ( I will be adding some graphics later), you get it all in a nice "package" from the link above.

This goes to the concepts outlined in my Information Design blog here:
http://videofeedback1.blogspot.com/

Which is another back to front blog, which I will make a one page blog, later.

In closing, how could Blogger better avail itself for my purposes? It'd be nice if I could simply click a button and have the entire set of posts re-format into the story with the beginning posts at the beginning of the blog.

-CB

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