Blogging tools

Having produced in excess of 1500 blog postings (mainly for Bignews Margate), you would think that by now I would have some preferred method or process by which I produce these postings, however this is not the case.

Like many whether or not I suffer from dyslexia, one thing is for sure, I make an awful lot of mistakes some of which I spot before publishing and some I don't, so over the years, five and a half roughly, I've tried alsorts of ways in which to mitigate my deficiencies, short of having my own personal editor, I have to concentrate hard and hope that I spot the most blatant examples.

Some techniques have had limited success, perhaps one of the best examples being voice dictation software, which if you have the patience to train it, will get to around 90 percent plus accuracy, although you still have to read through several times to spot errors, and to be honest the mistakes can be a little more exotic than ommiting a word or simply misspelling.

Of course nothing is perfect, however I am using to produce this posting "Blogger in Draft" and the post editor that has as part of the toolbar, google scribe, basically this is a tool developed by the now defunct Google Labs project, which when used provides you with predictive text input for your post.

As I mentioned I do use other tools, but have to say that this is certainly one of the more easy to use  tools, anyhoo I intend to bore you witless with further revelations about blogging paraphernalia and other malarkey in subsequent postings.

In the meantime, I generally listen to music, so this is what I've listening to most recently.

Did I really listen to this stuff?

Yes and some times I still do, I spend some considerable time traveling and even adele gets on your nerves after a while, I listen to a lot of music and radio, my tastes are broad, this was one of the tracks I happened to listen to on the way home last night, from nineteen seventy er blimey three.

The Track from Genesis, from long ago, The Musical Box prog rock at its most theatrical, I saw this lot at Reading probably in 73, obviously they adapted and became mainstream.

Happy Birthday i newspaper

This blog is basically about what interest me, yes, self obsessed or what. Any how I shall press on, one of my pleasures in life, is reading the papers, although I never noticed the birth of i newspaper. I first came across the offspring of the Independent back in May and have purchased it most days since.

It is as it says at top of the front page the first and only concise quality newspaper brilliant and only 20p, far superior to the Mail, Express, Mirror and all those other tabloids.

A new departure

Crikey!

I get bored easily, I blog a lot, muchly about politics, than anything else and have learnt to appreciate that there is more to life than my own interests still.


Anyhoo I thought I'd use this blog to blog about stuff that falls outside the normal stuff on Bignews Margate.


First off has to be the actual topic of blogging itself, what do you need?


Well the single most important element of a blog has to be a passion, a desire to communicate even if it's just like, look at the marvellous view.


The Title BM (Bignews Margate) I blog (therefore I am) a quick explanation still it could have been Body Mass (BM) Indicator blog  (i blog) however life's to short.