Carol Gee: Interconnected

My address is "The World."
These are the places where my writing is regularly posted:
Primary blog -- My topical or political posts are at South by Southwest. My first post (that actually worked) was titled "Frustration galore," (3/30/05), indicating I was a novice only learning by doing. The S/SW post I'll write today will be number 808.
Creative blog -- at CarolGee-Southwest Blogger. My first post was very short and titled, "My craft is launched," (11/16/05). I quote from it, "This is the first entry of my new creative writing blog. It will consist of social comments, memoirs, poetry or creative writings. It will be very experimental with no expectations for readership." Today's post will be number 219 in that series. It will be a duplicate cross-posted from Making Good Mondays.
Group blog -- I am an assistant editor at The Reaction, is (Canadian) Michael J.W. Stickings' current events/political blog. He asked me to become a guest blogger there this summer. My first post, "An Idea Whose Time has Come," (6/7/07) was cross-posted from S/SW.
Two "Big" blogs -- Several times a week I cross-post to TPMCafe's diary section where I have been a member for over two years (first post 6/29/05). This blog seems to have the best discussions around. And the pace and politics fit my style. Occasionally I write a "Diary" post at DailyKos, but it is rare because our composers (Blogger and whatever Kos uses) are not very compatible. Also it moves too fast for me.Since cross-posting is usually what I do, I either have to strip the code out of my original or write from scratch. I first posted there in November of 2005. Also DailyKos seems to lack the centrist blend at TPMCafe. This (8/6/07) Washington Post article lays out that possibility more fully: Diversity is lacking" in YearlyKos world.
Social Network -- A few weeks ago a blog friend of mine set up a little group blog -- scrap paper -- for anyone interested. This is how she introduced it: "scrap paper is wonderful for creativity. no worries about filling space or making mistakes. welcome." We post photos and art, videos and music, write blogs, and have forum discussions, nothing very heavy or political. One of our most active discussions has been about coffee.
These are a few of my blogging tools:

• The graph you see is by SiteMeter. It refers to the origins of my readers on a given day, and how many people read my blogs.
• I use ScribeFire for noting post ideas, saving links and drafting.
• Freeze.com is one of my image resources as this link of 1/10/07 illustrates.
• Technorati tags: tagging helps get more readers.
• Wikipedia's Search Engine Optimization made it possible for one of my political posts to make the front page of a Google search: "Fifty Ways to Understand the Protect America Act." 9/28/07.
• Tool to Strip HTML tags from copy.
• New York Times Link Generator, so your NYT links will stay alive.

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