Why I Use Skribit: An Introspective

by Paul on 15 February 2010

Cure Writer's Block!I’m not deluded. I am fully aware of the fact that the number of people who read the beginnings of this blog is roughly equal to the number of passengers that can comfortably ride in a VW Beetle. But I can’t help but remember what my mother always told me: “Dress for the job you want, not the job you have.” This pearl of advice seems perfectly applicable to this particular endeavor. I will do my best to treat my little piece of the web as though it were a smashingly popular blog read by thousands. In keeping with this, I wanted to have a way for my readers to make suggestions about what they would like me to write about – particularly as it relates to my experiences in the Army. It gets better. Skribit takes it a step further than just receiving suggestions through e-mail or comments. In fact, Skribit allows users to vote on suggestions (pushing them up the list) and follow them so they are notified when a suggestion they followed has been written about. This creates an even more interactive solution letting my readers stay plugged in to what’s going on around parisim.net. [click to continue…]

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A New Hello, again?

by Paul on 7 February 2010

Sure hit this key a lot...I’ve done this a hundred times. I spend hours, days even, working on the “new” layout for my site hoping that doing so will spur me on to blog wonderful, insightful posts about life, tech, the Army – whatever. In fact, at this point, I think parisim.net has had more major redesigns than it has had posts. Not much of a blog, I suppose. In my defense, I do love the work involved in the redesigns, and it helps to keep me semi-current on what’s going on in the WordPress world. There is, however, no reason why I shouldn’t also use this blog to write on, is there? I didn’t think so.

This time is going to be different.

I’m not going to say it. I’m not going to make any promises. I’m not going to lay out grandiose plans for where this blog will be in 6 12 months time. I’m simply going to say hello, world – again. Let’s see where it goes from here.

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