plainbeta

You keep changing your layout. Will you ever settle on just one?

Yes, I do keep changing my layout – and yes, I shall settle on one – mine.
I am currently working on a re-design of plainBETA and I am quite excited about it. In the mean time I need a layout don’t I? Thus I have tried to get one that I like – and this one shall do untill I complete my custom layout.

But, more info about my custom layout shall come soon – as soon as I finish the logo.
I am very excited about it and can’t wait!

Cheers for the link love, but it’s a shame to have lost you as a reader. I think it’s a bit greedy for Darren to promote an article that suggests you should cut back on reading about blogging, and just read ProBlogger…that sort of advice suggests that he wants some sort of evil monopoly on the blogging tips market which really sucks. Don’t get me wrong, I think Problogger is a great blog, I just think giving people advice like that is uncalled for. . . I also write about web design if that will keep you coming back. Cheers anyway Brian. Simon. p.s. I like your layout!

I liked your previous layout…… But whatever just keep updating…….

Cranston: I didn’t quite like the last layout – yes, it had some really nice features but… It just didn’t go with the effect I’m trying to create with plainBETA. It was too dark and red – I’m not like that, and I don’t want my blog like that.
But like I said, this shall be my last layout update untill I get my custom layout on the web.

Simon: You know what Simon, that comment will get me to come back. I like the small blog mentality. I like commenting on blogs where it’s like a community.
However, I do not think it was Darren Rowse (ProBlogger) telling people to only read his blog. He is constantly promoting other blogs. That particular piece of advice was apart of a ask-his-readers series on blogging productivity.

I’m also subscribed to a large number of RSS feeds and it does make it very difficult to get anything done when you’ve got 100+ to read every single morning when you wake up. I find myself just hitting the “mark as read” in Google Reader a lot because I feel overwhelmed in that I can’t sit and read that many. I just don’t know what ones to give up as I do like reading them all, just don’t have time and when I do have time I should be working on something more productive and not reading site feeds.

I was in that same predicament when I went to unsubscribe to some RSS feeds. I didn’t know what to unsubscribe from!
So what I did is I glanced back through some of the older posts and built a mental picture of what blogs gave me the most help. I then mentally organized the list and chopped it off where it would be managable. Any blogs that were beyond that point I simply unsubscribed.
Even though it did hurt, I believe I am now much more productive at blogging and can get more done.

On the topic of cutting back on the time you spend reading rss feeds there is a new site from the ppp people at http://www.rssbrief.com/ that creates a summary of each article in a feed so you don’t have to read the entire page. Looks like interesting stuff!

Thanks Simon!
I’ll look into that!

Hey Brian, sorry to lose you – feel free to come back any time.

I totally sympathise, of course, as I know what it’s like to be snowed under with RSS. I recently did the same as you, and cut a whole raft of feeds from my reader.

Interestingly, I’ve already added a couple of them back, because I missed them.

Keep up the good work!

Yes…
I’m sorry to lose you too Brian.
I liked your blog, I just didn’t have the time and your blog didn’t quite fit my needs. But I did actually re-visit your blog today! So, I shall return from time to time.

Untill next time!

Hi,

I was half joking when I wrote that. Even though it’s true that I wasted a lot of time on reading blogs about blogging, I didn’t think anyone else would take that seriously.

Thanks!

lol – well, I took it to heart and it has greatly increased my time avalibility!
Thanks!

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