Blogs- what I'm reading, what I've started reading, stopped reading and those which I still enjoy.

Blogs I've started reading::

The Greening of Gavin: Basically about a bloke to had a green epiphany, basically his blog is about the little things and some large things you can do to make the earth a greener place. At times he writes with such fervour it reminds me of a Christian blog....

Cycle EXIF:: There is something about looking at cycles that makes me drool.

Australian Friend:: Quaker stories and theology, refreshing how they look at life.

Shane Clifton:: A Pentecostal pastor, lecturer how had a surfing accident, is now a paraplegic. A brave story. I'm finding it interesting how he interacts with life God and his disability.

Simply Simon:: pastor of Collins Street Baptis, reads some interesting books, likes food, and is a brittle to liberal for a lot of Christians. My sort of guy.

A therapy for pain:: bike touring, a bit of a dream. This blog is about a trip around Japan.

Stopped Reading

Bob Carr, thought lines:: now that he is foreign minister, his blog has cooled, it's more polite. Not willing to write what he maybe thinking. Yep it's going.

Mark Connor:: I'm sticking with it but just, most these days are pointers from a sermon or bible study. He has moved from been prophetic, looking at current events people etc.

Continuing reading::

Backyard Missionary :: been following this for a long time. Hamm doesn't pull punches. Enjoy his home stories, reflections, passions and thoughts on theology.

Home brewed Christianity :: These guys at times a bit cerebral. But for me cutting edge on Christian it's and Spirituality

View from a room:: Bob, a person who struggles with the mainstream Christiantiy and forging his own path.

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Blogsy Vs BlogPress

I've been writing my blog now on my iPad for a couple of months. Prior to that I just used a Macbook with Safari. The iPad has become increasingly my "PC" of choice, due to its form size and portability.

Safari:: Unfortunately with Safari on the iPad the option of uploading pictures is shaded. I have yet to find a a way around this option so that I can put photos straight from the iPad onto the blog. Otherwise just for text its alright. The other major downfall is that you need to have an active internet connection.

Blogsy App:: This is my tool of choice. Some of the positives are

• What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG) is pretty accurate
• Some niffty ways to hyperlink text
• You can write your stuff without an active internet connection
• Development appears pretty active, there is always seems a new version every couple of months

Blogsy does though have its downfalls..

• You have to upload your photos to Picarso or other photo sharing program.
• You cannot directly add your photos from your camera libary to the blog site.
• You have to allow location sharing to add a image to your blog (I find this rather intrusive)
• The development of lots of new versions means it can be a bit buggy at times.

BlogPress App::

I used a long while on my iPhone, but I found it a bit of pain to blog on a phone. But I've been using this app again since the iPad.

BlogPress main pluses for me are image management.

• You can add images direct from your iPad camera.
• They don't ask for an image location.

But it does have its problems

• hyperlinks, they are messy and complicated.
• Not as pretty. WYSIWYG isn't quite there, if at all.
• Doesn't seem to be actively developed.

So While both apps have there ups and downs I pretty much use Blogsy unless I have images. Then I use BlogPress. If there is a bit of writing, I use BlogPress to upload the photos, save as draft then move over to Blogsy.

I'm still waiting for my ideal blogging app....