Become a Follower

I know, it doesn't sound that great or that inspirational. Yea! Be A Follower! Kind of lame, I know.
But this is different! Blogger now has this new feature that is pretty cool and allows you to see who actually is a "follower" of your actual blog. If your name/blog appears on my bloglist to the right then I have already done my work to become a follower on your blog. All you have to do is add the widget/gadget which is accessible under your "Layout" icon and then you just select the "add a gadget" icon and then you click the "Followers" icon and... viola, you're a follower. Join the club. I like how blogger is helping this thing to do some of the cool social networking stuff, but not all of the other stuff from those sites that I find somewhat lame.

Blog List

You'll notice that I added the "Blog List" on the right hand column of the screen to replace the previous list that was there of family blogs and friends blogs. This does two things, at least. First, all I have to do is check my own blog to see if there are other blogs that I need to check... this will obviously save me from the endless back and forth clicking required to check everyones blog.
Second, this feature also ranks your importance in my life on a daily basis (which I know is of profound importance to you!). If you haven't updated your blog in a while (or have never written on the blog that you created: Laurie Farmer!), then you'll be at the bottom of the list in your respective category (family or friend) and, of much greater importance, you'll be at the bottom of the list in importance in my life ;*P . My apologies to those of you who don't have whatever is needed to provide the info to blogger regarding your updates (this includes blogspot pals that require you to login to access their blog).

I will just mention for those of you that are interested in doing something like this (see link above, or check it out on your Dashboard, they have a Youtube tutorial and everything!): it's kind of a pain! You can't just take your existing list of links to blogs and make it a "blog list", you have to start from scratch and enter the links one by one and then go back and rename them to the name that you want to use on your blog for that person (Otherwise I'd have to remember who the heck "Something Completely Different" is, which I don't want to have to do). So, it does take a while, but I think it will be worth it. Let me know what you think!

My thanks in general to Blogger for creating this option!

Do you have more than one blogging disorder too?

In my early blogging days, I posted about binge blogging, which you can read here. While this is still true of me, I have also discovered that I love (gross understatement) to receive comments. The problem is that this combination of binge-blogger-comment-hound usually doesn't work very well when placed together. If I do a binge-blog, most people get tired and don't read all my posts and other's just leave a long comment on one of my posts, which is fine because I like quality comments, but I also love quantity comments. Mary often laughs at me because I check my blog regularly to surf for any new comments on my posts. I don't subscribe to updates on my comments (which I probably should to save myself some time and a mild amount of comment searching anxiety). Anyway, this combo has often disappointed me (stupid/silly, I know). But fortunately for me (and probably many others) Blogger has come up with a great way to circumvent this problem, a feature they just recently streamlined and advertised. You can now schedule your posts in the future (click here for an explanation of how to do this). So if I do a binge blog I can schedule consecutive posts to come at different times in the future. So, I just finished a post and scheduled it to post tomorrow afternoon and have another one scheduled to post shortly after that one. So I think this will help me garner comments on multiple posts while also being able to binge-blog. Nice work Blogger! Oh and BTW, these are not my only two blogging disorders. Oh yeah, and this is a "real time" post... not a scheduled one.