Why I Use Skribit: An Introspective

by Paul on 15 February 2010

in Look, Site News

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?

February 7, 2010

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 [...]

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