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Curious about sex work? Participate in SexWork101.com

by Audacia Ray on 04/01/2008

in bloggers, Blogging, sex work

Sex Work 101 was inspired by conversations that happened during the Women, Action and the Media 2008 conference held in Cambridge, MA from March 28-30, 2008.

I gave a talk at WAM called Sex Workers and Media Representation (click to see notes for the workshop), and questions during and after the talk made me realize that many people are curious about the sex industry and want to support sex workers in their struggle for rights, but they have no idea where to start. This site is an attempt to fill that gap in public education in an approachable, easy to understand, and engaging way – it’s also the first public education project from Sex Work Awareness, a new non-profit in NYC founded by four $pread staff members. Sex Work 101 is meant to add to public knowledge about sex work and to encourage discussion about the issues sex workers face.

Participate in Sex Work 101! I’m looking for questions non-sex working people want answered and their perceptions of/thoughts about the industry, as well as posts from sex workers who want to share stories about their work (a day in the life, how I got into the industry, reposts from personal blogs, etc)

The official email for the site is ask[at]sexwork101.com but people can also email me at dacia[at]wakingvixen.com. I’d also love to hear from people who want to help with the site – writing posts, answering questions, etc.

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Blogging

by Viviane on 09/08/2007

in Blogging, sexblogs

I get asked a lot about how to get started in blogging, how to set up a blog, and publicizing a blog. Or perhaps I just offer advice all the time…

This year I developed a presentation on How To Be a Sex Blogger at Dark Odyssey’s Spring Fire. I finally got around to putting the slides and the handouts up – click on the Blogging page.

If you haven’t a clue where to begin, I highly recommend Bob Walsh’s Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them.

I’ll be giving this talk next at Conversio Virium in Spring, 2008.

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Blogher07: Day 2 Photos

by Viviane on 07/31/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, blogher07, chicago, Events, Fetish & Kink

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Live in Meatspace: I’m off to BlogHer

by Viviane on 07/26/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, blogher07

Packing the stuff for a trip always takes the longest for me. The chargers, books, equipment. The clothes? 10 minutes.

I’m bringing enough smut to run a mini-festival (Matt and Khym, The Bi Apple, Passion and Power: The Technology of Orgasm (showing this weekend at the Walter Reade with a panel that includes Betty Dodson) and Ho0kin’ Up. And Audacia’s Naked on the Internet, cause I’m a month behind on a book review for the blog book tour.

And we’ve got two events for the sex bloggers to meet up. I get to finally meet in person a ton of people, Amber, Always Aroused Girl, Cunning Minx a few others who wish to remain nameless, and Susie Bright. And I’m bringing a copy of Susie’s Best American Erotica 1993 for her to sign.

A friend said, “you’re go to a conference to talk about blogging? I thought folks just do it.” Oh, yes. It’ll be my first BlogHer. For this, I’ll get up early and go to the breakfast and try and attend everything. If you see me at, please come up and say hello. I’ll be the Asian woman juggling a Treo and a digital camera. ;-D

Chicago’s gonna be a real hen party!

Now it’s off to the airport to wait. They’re thunderstorms in Chicago. Our flights are fucked.

I’ll post updates to Twitter. And if you click on “With Others” you can follow Rachel, AAG, Amber, Minx, et al. And I like to bookmark sites that come up in presentations on my del.icio.us, with the tag “blogher07.”

Back on Sunday, sweeties.

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Blogging for Sex Education roundup

by Viviane on 06/05/2007

in Blogging, education, roundup, sex, sexbloggers

I missed posting or mentioning this (because I am swamped), but Amber Rhea points us to Renegade Evolution’s comprehensive roundup.

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Mass deletion of communities on LiveJournal sparks revolt (C|Net)

by Jessica Gold Haralson on 05/30/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, incest, pedophiles

Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company’s recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.

LiveJournal, which is owned by San Francisco-based Six Apart, confirmed Wednesday that it deleted around 500 journals this week in hopes of better “protecting children.” It said the deletion was prompted by activist groups, including one called Warriors for Innocence that claims to track sites promoting pedophilia, the sexual abuse of minors, and other illegal activities.

Legal experts say LiveJournal is clearly not liable for fictional stories and related discussions posted by its users. But despite customer outcry, Six Apart is standing firm in its position that the deleted journals violate company policy.

“We did a review of our policies related to how we review those sites, those journals, and came up with the fact that we actually did have a number of journals up that we didn’t think met our policies and didn’t think they were appropriate to have up,” Barak Berkowitz, chairman and chief executive of Six Apart, said in a telephone interview. The site boasts about 13 million journals.

Some deleted LiveJournal communities went by names like childlove and little_children (a community permits multiple LiveJournal users to post entries, while an individual account is limited to one user). Others, however, broadly fall into the category of science fiction, fantasy or user-written “fandom” stories–and it is those that have sparked the outcry.

“As a queer, feminist writer who explores the darker aspects of human nature, many of my stories deal with incest, rape and child molestation,” a LiveJournal member named “bitterfig” wrote. “As such, I belonged to and contributed to several of the communities which have been suspended and frankly I’m pretty offended. I don’t like being lumped in with rapists and pedophiles and other ‘monsters on the Web.’”

Practically any attempt to sort works of fiction into tidy piles of acceptable and unacceptable material, of course, is likely to invite controversy. Works by noted authors such as James Joyce, Henry Miller and William S. Burroughs have been lauded as masterpieces–and at other times prosecuted as obscene.

(Read more…)

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5 Questions about Blogging: Lisa Vandever

by Viviane on 04/04/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, cinekink, movies

Lisa Vandever, Co-Founder & Director of the Cinekink film series, blogs at CineKinkster.

When did you start blogging?
I started a personal blog about a year-and-a-half ago, right before I got married, to serve as a virtual scrap-book and touch upon on everything that was going on at the time. I launched the official CineKink blog late last summer, just as we were beginning to gear up for our annual film festival. I’d been kicking the idea around for awhile, then got the final nudge when I was asked to guest blog about my CineKink experiences over at The Reeler, an NYC film blog. That became the subject of my first post as “CineKinkster.”


What do you like about blogging?
In theory, I’d say the immediacy of it – “in theory” because I often find myself being as editorially compulsive as I do when writing for other media. (See, I just went back and tweaked the preceding sentence twice. And it’s still not right!) But it is really gratifying to have a thought, put it into words and toss it out into the world within the next few moments. (Or next few hours, depending on how compulsive I’m feeling and how many links I’m referencing.)

In terms of CineKink, I also love having the extra space to touch upon things that might be a little unwieldy for our regular email updates, or that aren’t directly related to our programming but might be of interest to our audience, generally anything at the intersection of sex and film/television.

Is blogging a major or minor way of connecting to other people for you?
My personal blog, which is on LiveJournal, has definitely become a way for me to feel connected. Since I don’t work in a bustling office, my “friends list” serves as my water cooler, where I can check in for a bit of contact and gossip. Then post my own occasional tidbit and compulsively hit refresh until I get at least a comment or two.

The CineKink blog is much less interactive and feels more like me pushing information out into the black void. That might partly be a result of the CineKinkster voice, a kind of royal “we” that I co-opted from Defamer and such. It’s fun for the most part, especially if I’m feeling light and snarky, but it doesn’t generally inspire conversation. The only time I’ve ever sparked a number of comments was when I (we?) posted about Ann Coulter and her dominatrix-y ways.

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?
CineKinkster is through Blogger, though it’s actually hosted on the CineKink domain and server. I chose it because it seemed geared towards a relatively low level of technical competence (i.e. me). It was a breeze to set up and has been absolutely great so far, but I do keep separate archives of all of my posts, just in case.

What do you do to promote your blog or your writing (using tags in your post, blog roll, del.icio.us , Digg, Pingoat)?
Now that Blogger enables them, I’ve recently started adding tags, though I still need to add them to my archives. I use Feedburner to make the blog available in basically any subscription format. I run a CineKink community on LiveJournal, then post back from there to CineKinkster to up my Technorati links. I submit to various blog carnivals whenever I have a relevant post (yay, Viviane’s Sex Carnival!). I push links to the CineKink page on MySpace and include them wherever I can in our email updates.

Mostly, though, I’m still just getting up to speed on much of this – and look forward to your workshop for help in sussing it all out. That, along with – what’s it called – how to “monetize”?

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5 Questions about Blogging: Elizabeth Wood

by Viviane on 04/03/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, sexbloggers

Sex-radical feminist and sociologist Elizabeth Wood writes at Sex in the Public Square.

1. I started blogging on June 27, 2006, not quite a year ago. Coincidentally that is my mother’s birthday and she has been a regular reader of my blog (and occasional commenter!) from the start. I started because I wanted a way to write short reactions to news articles about sex, or sexuality, without derailing myself from the book I’ve been working on. In other words, it was a place to put ideas that didn’t fit into the book but that were on my mind and that I didn’t want to lose track of. As it happens, the blog has turned into a significant project of it’s own and I’m thinking about expanding it into a larger web site that would create a real online “public square” for discussion and activism around sexuality and sex-related policy.
2. There are lots of things I like about blogging. I like the discussions that start in the comments area of posts. I like the ability to publish something immediately. I like the independence of blogging. One of the best things about blogging is that anyone can publish whatever the want (and of course that is one of the hazards of blogs as well!). I like the connections that blogging facilitates. I’ve met some fascinating people whose paths I’d never have crossed were it not for the blog.
3. Blogging has turned into a pretty major way of connecting with people. That surprised me at first! Through my blog I have met authors of books that I’ve mentioned, I met the Perverts’ Saloon folks, I’ve connected online with people around the US and around the world.
4. My blog is hosted on a free service, WordPress.com. Generally speaking I’ve been very happy with WordPress.com but recently I’ve been dismayed by the unsystematic way that they deal with content that gets reported as “mature.” I posted about this here, here, and here.
5. I don’t do a lot to promote my blog. I tag entries, but just with tags I generate myself. (Of course lots of these are tags other people use, too.) One of the things I like about WordPress.com is that it generates “global tag pages” for any tag created by a user. So when I use the tag “sex” my post goes on a WordPress tag page with all the other WordPress blog posts tagged “sex.” I don’t use Technorati tags only because I don’t know how! I do sometimes comment on other peoples’ blogs and I have a blogroll that links to blogs I read and that I recommend to others. I recently joined MyBlogLog after you and Susan Mernit both recommended it. I’ve been meaning to join BlogHer.org but haven’t gotten to it yet. But the greatest promotion of my blog has been done by readers. Occasionally readers have posted a piece from my blog on Reddit.com and that has brought lots of traffic, and several new regular readers.

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5 Questions about Blogging: Goldslut

by Viviane on 04/02/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, sexbloggers, sexblogs

Goldslut’s blog is The Gold Slut Standard.

When did you start blogging?
I started The Gold Slut Standard on December 30, 2006, to fulfill a New Year’s resolution. I had been hanging out with bloggers, as my blogger boyfriend’s +1, for about a year. It was time for me to step up.

What do you like about blogging?
I’ve always been a writer. I’ve always found ways to express myself through writing. That is until I got a fulltime job that involves writing every day in a very specific technical style. I’ve been doing this forced boring writing thing for almost six years now, and during that time have written nothing of creative interest. I was beginning to feel that I’d lost the ability to write in any other style. I started my blog to write about something so different and in such a different style that it would shake me out of my rut, and it has worked fantastically. Not only am I enjoying writing about fat girl sex in my blog, I’m also working on other writing projects in different styles. I like blogging because it has helped me to pry open those creaky floodgates. And, as bonuses, I get to step up my public exhibitionism and enjoy the roller-coaster thrill of the ups and downs of watching blog stats.

Is blogging a major or minor way of connecting to other people for you?
It has been a major way of connecting to other people in my role as girlfriend of blogger, particularly thanks to Viviane and her Pervert’s Saloon. I’m still getting used to putting myself out there with my own blog, but I love the idea of connecting to people this way.

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?
WordPress. It’s been good to me so far.

What do you do to promote your blog or your writing (using tags in your post, blog roll, del.icio.us, Digg, Pingoat)?
Um… promote my blog? Please tell me more!

I’m just beginning to explore these things. I’m learning that the best place to start is to be out there reading other peoples’ blogs and commenting on them, and that will guide them to mine.

I’m extremely grateful to Jefferson and Chelsea Girl for listing me in Fleshbot Sex Blog Roundups, and to Viviane for putting my very first post up on the Carnival. I’m lucky; I started my blog already belonging to a blogger’s community, and the members of this community have been extremely supportive of me as a fledgling blogger. Thanks Perverts! Most important, I need to write more often and be more of a presence out there in the… um… blogosphere.

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5 Questions about Blogging: Chris Hall

by Viviane on 03/29/2007

in bloggers, Blogging

Perverts’ Saloon member Chris Hall’s blog is Literate Perversions.

When did you start blogging?
I’ve been blogging on and off since November, 2003. Like a lot of people, I started out on Blogger, first on Blogspot, then moving it over to my own domain, which I had already owned for several years. I think I started as much out of a geeky interest in the “shiny new toy” factor of getting to play with the software itself. To this day, I love fiddling about with all the features and toys as they’re developed.

What do you like about blogging?
I like having a place to express all the weird detritus of my brain, whether sexually-oriented or not. My blog is a lot more eclectic than those of my fellow perverts, but hell — I majored in Liberal Arts. That’s what you take when you can’t decide what you want to be when you grow up, and I still tend to churn out a mishmosh of posts around the topics of sex, politics, and pop culture (especially comic books). I think perhaps my greatest weakness as a blogger is my irregularity; unlike some people, I tend to blog in spurts. I’m trying to address that right now, after coming out of a two-month period of silence on my blog.

Is blogging a major or minor way of connecting to other people for you?
On the whole, I would describe it as a minor way with respect to my total social interactions, although those people that I have met through blogging have been disproportionately important in my life.

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?
Nowadays, I use an installation of WordPress on my own website. I’m very happy with WordPress (despite some issues with the latest version), and my general advice to bloggers is that they should at the very least get their own domain name and try to host it themselves. This is especially true for sex bloggers, who are always at the whim of some flunky in Google or LJ suddenly deciding that their content is obscene and suddenly finding themselves blogless.

What do you do to promote your blog or your writing (using tags in your post, blog roll, del.icio.us, Digg, Pingoat)?
I’m really bad about this. I do put Technorati tags at the end of each post, and I’ve recently installed a plugin that puts links to the major social bookmarking sites at the end of each post as well, but that’s about as far as I go with regard to pimping myself.

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5 Questions about Blogging: Rachel Kramer Bussel

by Viviane on 03/26/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, rachelkramerbussel, sexbloggers

sarkis2 5 Questions about Blogging: Rachel Kramer BusselThe introductory post for this series.

Rachel Kramer Bussel is the Lusty Lady.

When did you start blogging?
I’ve been blogging in some form probably since 2000 or so, I had an old tripod site where I’d post updates, then I was on Livejournal, and joined Blogger in, I believe, 2003. I deleted my blog archives in 2005 and restarted it, so those are now cached somewhere by Google (and not worth looking up), but the Blogger incarnation is definitely my favorite (so far) because it’s the one that’s most interactive.

What do you like about blogging?
I like that I can say anything I want. I don’t have to censor myself or feel like I can only share one part of me. I like that I can post photos of my baby cousin, diatribes about sexual politics, event announcements, erotica snippets, whatever. It’s really freeing and is a great contrast to some of the other writing I do where it’s very precise and has a word count and a specific topic. I think the blog paints a much broader, and fairer, portrait of what my life is actually all about than, say, if someone just read my former sex column. I loved writing it, but by necessity, it was only about sex, and sex is really only a small part of my life. I like that I keep discovering new blogs to add to my blogroll and new widgets like Flickr and LibraryThing to add. I love tweaking the blog and just seeing who’s reading and what people respond to. It’s ultimately just a really cathartic way for me to get thoughts out of my head and onto the internets.

Is blogging a major or minor way of connecting to other people for you?
It’s a major way of connecting, in terms of keeping up with friends I don’t see very often and making friends from other parts of the country and world. I know a lot of my friends check in with me via my blog and I like that, but I don’t think it replaces actual private communication. But whenever anything really exciting happens, I always want to race to the computer and blog it. I’ve made some really wonderful friends via blogging and professionally, editors and reporters have found me because I’ve blogged about a given topic, and it’s always a great way for me to get feedback about my writing or find interviewees. It’s kindof a one-stop shopping deal for me to get and give information.

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?
Blogger, although if I were to start a new one, I’d go with WordPress.
I used to have a Livejournal and like Blogger okay, but would prefer to have proper categories.

What do you do to promote your blog or your writing (using tags in your post, blog roll, del.icio.us, Digg, Pingoat)?
I don’t even know what Pingoat is, or how to use del.icio.us or Digg! I’m not so up on the technology but I do have an extensive blogroll, have starting using tags, and will link to relevant bloggers in my posts. I do Sugasm when I have a relevant post and just try to keep up with what other bloggers are writing. I think that aside from specific tools to promote your blog, just writing about what interests you and doing what comes naturally is the best way to lead people to your blog.

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5 Questions about Blogging: Zed Sinclair

by Viviane on 03/21/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, gay, queer, sexbloggers, sugarbutch

pic DominicCooper2 5 Questions about Blogging: Zed SinclairThe introductory post for this series.

Chivalrous kinky writer, queer butch top, sex educator Zed Sinclair writes at Sugarbutch Chronicles.

When did you start blogging?
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.

What do you like about blogging?
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.

Is blogging a major or minor way of connecting to other people for you?
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.

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?
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.

What do you do to promote your blog or your writing (using tags in your post, blog roll, del.icio.us, Digg, Pingoat)?
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.

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5 Questions about Blogging: Mikey Mongol

by Viviane on 03/20/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, sexbloggers

Introductory post for this series.

Mikey Mongol blogs here at the Carnival, and has a new blog, A Savage Place.

When did you start blogging?
Way back in the mists of time, around the turn of the millennium, I was splitting my time between two cities — I had a job in one and a girlfriend in another. I set up a personal blog to keep my sets of friends in both cities the loop as to what was going on with my life. That got me started. The girlfriend eventually fell by the wayside, but the blog didn’t.

Fast-forward a couple of years, and I started a couple of small-scale blogging projects to try to kickstart my writing career. It was a short step from there to contributing to bigger blogs. And here we are.

What do you like about blogging?
Blogging keeps me writing, if not every day, then at least several times a week, on a wide variety of topics (Q: “How do you get to Carnegie book deal?” A: “Practice, practice, practice.”) It also gives me a chance to share opinion with a huge talent pool of diverse personalities, with many of whom I’ve forged strong working relationships and/or friendships. The networking opportunities are fantastic!

Is blogging a major or minor way of connecting to other people for you?
I keep in touch with a lot of geographically distant friends with my personal blog, and a good number of my working contacts have come from the blogosphere as well.

I cannot overstate the value that blogging has added to my networking efforts. Nothing replaces face-to-face interaction, of course, but the social circles that blogging has opened up for me are ones that I otherwise would never have had a chance to access.

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?
In the course of my blogging career I’ve used several free public hosted services — LiveJournal and Blogger among them — as well as my own independent blogs hosted on my own private webspace. Using a hosted service is definitely easier. While you do give up a certain level of control by not running your own blog on your own server, for casual, single-writer, not-for-profit blogging, I can’t really see too many advantages in not using Blogger. Having your own domain name certainly helps convey an air of professionalism and seriousness, but it’s easy as pie to set up URL forwarding to sent folks from your own domain name to your hosted blog.

Once you start wanting to monetize your blog, or you have several contributors on several different topics, or your hit count starts increasing enough that you need more robust comment-management tools, or you want to do more with your site design than a hosted service will let you, then it’s probably time to switch to a more individualized blogging solution.

What do you do to promote your blog or your writing (using tags in your post, blog roll, del.icio.us, Digg, Pingoat)?
Call me old-fashioned, but I don’t do much in the way of Digg or del.icio.us or tagging or other such search-engine optimization techniques. Most of my traffic comes from reciprocal links and comments that I leave in the blogs of others. If I were really serious about getting my hits up, I could and would do all of that wacky stuff, but right now I’m content to expand through the blog version of word-of-mouth.

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5 Questions about Blogging: Chelsea Girl

by Viviane on 03/19/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, Chelsea Girl, sexbloggers

5 Questions about Blogging: Chelsea GirlThe introductory post for this series.

Chelsea Gir’sl endowments include breasts that are fake and spectacular, and a vocabulary as capacious as her good-natured ass. She writes at pretty dumb things. And today is her two year blogday.

When did you start blogging?
I started blogging almost exactly two years ago–my two year anniversary will be next week.

What do you like about blogging?
The best aspect of blogging for me is having an open forum for me to write about whatever I feel like writing about; this openness has allowed me to learn how to write with a kind of freedom I’ve never had before and with feedback from actual live humans. The other best aspects are that I’ve made contacts in the world of publishing and in my personal life. I have met people through blogging I’d never have met otherwise, whether it’s writers like Terry Teachout and Susie Bright or friends like you, like O, like Karl Elvis. Finally, I’ve started to make some money from blogging. It’s not a tremendous amount, but it’s something, and this money seriously helps. I feel like writing my pretty dumb things has created change for me in unforeseen ways. Not only have I become a better writer, but I have learned tremendous amounts about myself, met new people, and created the possibility of becoming a published author.

Is blogging a major or minor way of connecting to other people for you?
Both. I have friends I’ve met from blogging, I have professional connections I’ve made from blogging, but because of recent events, I’ve become much more reticent to meet new people through my blogging. Certainly, the connection I feel between my writing and people is a major part of my life. I enjoy the comments I get on posts, as long as they’re thoughtful and constructive, but the letters that people take the time to write to me mean even more. I am regularly gobsmacked that my writing touches people and that they care enough to tell me so. That, in and of itself, is major.

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?
I use Typepad. I am HTML-reduced, and it seemed the most user friendly.

What do you do to promote your blog or your writing (using tags in your post, blog roll, del.icio.us, Digg, Pingoat)?
I don’t promote my blog. I never really have, other than leaving comments on other people’s writing at the beginning of my blogging. I’ve been tremendously lucky to have garnered the readership I have considering that I don’t do much beyond a blog roll. I’m truculent and don’t play well with others, and I don’t know how to add tags. So I’m just really, really lucky.

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5 Questions about Blogging: Lolita Wolf

by Viviane on 03/16/2007

in bloggers, Blogging, Lolita Wolf, lolitawolf, sexbloggers

lolita biapple 5 Questions about Blogging: Lolita WolfIntroductory post for this series.

BDSM educator and princess Lolita Wolf blogs at Lolita’s Predictions and Predilections.

When did you start blogging?
I am a “preblogger.” I started an email newsletter 13 years ago that was sent to over 1400 email addresses and was hosted on several BBS’s and websites. Over the years it has morphed into a blog.

What do you like about blogging?
I like connecting with people and inspiring them. So often I get feedback in person or via email that I have made a difference in their lives. I consider this a form of activism. I am also a bit of an exhibitionist.

Is blogging a major or minor way of connecting to other people for you?
My P+P has made me a minor celebrity over the years. I do have a sense of community through the NYC Perverts Saloon and getting to know people through LJ. But if you mean do I hook up through my blog? Not really. I do that in person.

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?
I have had a Blogger since 2003. There’s also an LJ account which contained all that is in my Blogger. I own a domain name (leatheryenta.com) and I heard that I can have Blogger host my blog at that domain so I am thinking of making that switch. I need to research that a little more (or maybe my Blog Mommy can help with that).

What do you do to promote your blog or your writing (using tags in your post, blog roll, del.icio.us, Digg, Pingoat)?
tags, blog roll, Pingoat, email signatures, putting my blog address on my class handouts.

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