5 Questions about Blogging: Zed Sinclair
Mar 21st, 2007 by Viviane
The introductory post for this series.
Chivalrous kinky writer, queer butch top, sex educator Zed Sinclair writes at Sugarbutch Chronicles.
What do you like about blogging? Is blogging a major or minor way of connecting to other people for you? Where’s your blog? Do you use a free hosted service (Blogger,Wordpress, Livejournal, AOL, Google Pages, etc.) or do you have your own domain and web server? What do you do to promote your blog or your writing (using tags in your post, blog roll, del.icio.us, Digg, Pingoat)?
in 1998 I started the only feminist blog there was called Feminist Media Watch. it was collaborative, and got extremely popular, at one point we had about twenty-five authors and had very high traffic. I’ve had a personal blog here or there since about then too, which has moved around.
my most successful blog projects have always been deeply personal, semi-anonymous explorations of my relationships, sexuality, and personal dramas. I’ve met some fantasic and wonderful people through my blogs, many of which have stayed in my life for many years.
Both, I suppose; it is a major source of deep connection for me, in that I am often sharing serious and intimate information about myself, but I do a lot of socializing in my peer groups in person too. So though it is major, it is not my only source.
Both; I have four domains, and accounts at blogger and wordpress. I primarily blog at a blogger account at the moment, the others are more stagnant.
very little, actually. I always visit my commenter’s websites and try to link to them, to encourage them to come back and comment/write more, and I go to their sites and comment on their writing too. so I guess I’m more into individual advertising than any sort of major site promotion. Every once in a while I get on a kick and try to make my profile on technorati or feedburner fancy, but it doesn’t seem to make a difference. I contribute to sugasm sometimes, that always enhances my traffic. Other than that? I try to write every day, so people will visit every day, but that’s about it.
I’m a new blogger (www.suekatz.com) and it was great to see 5 to-the-point questions & answers from someone who has been such a blogging pioneer. I have yet to figure out how the whole mutual linking thing works, but I know I wanna do it. I’m writing a book about older people (I’m nearly 60) and alternative sexualities and I blog about lust, kink and culture. Thanks again,
Sue