Problems with blogging 3

Trouble with blogging is that first of all it is addictive. I often come home from work in a rush ,or WITH a rush to to see my own blog . How vain but true I guess the only reason many of us bloggers briefly have a look at other people's blogs is possibly in a competitive manner , checking the opposition ,or even in a comradely supportive way : If I look at some blogs and make good comments , then maybe they would return the compliment . Well My most avid reader seems to have gone. This man, woman , child or computer generated message came to my blog as soon as I had proudly uploaded my First 'News Local and Distant'post . As already described in a previous post 'LEO' made a remark about me selling or giving my computer to a child as 'they have more brains '. I was really hurt at first to be honest. What followed was a rapid exchange of insults and political rows , mostly on his site . He, she or 'it' posted some messages that I could not publish and luckily managed to censor .So insulting and explicit had the exchanges become that in hope for a peaceful resolution ,I repeatedly asked 'LEO'to take part in a civilised debate about our differences of opinion, which I would be happy to post on this blog. I failed and received only insults and threats. I am a little ashamed to admit that I fought fire with fire . At one point ,after receiving countless verbal counter attacks on Leo's own blog , Leo seemed to have realised that there is an option for censoring incoming messages to one's own blog site, and sent me a message stating that 'we are even now!' Well for someone having trouble with blogging I assumed that this 'Leo ' would have known better than me on such matters. .Anyhow I have been warned by him, she , it,that I will be sued for libel as I accused Leo of being something very bad..........I do miss the messages from that source ,but as warned,I may even be subject to a law suit, I'll keep you posted.

Who reads this stuff anyway? I tried to see if I could find this site from other search engines to no avail. I guess it is mostly an internal site , of course you can find this blog if you punch in key words on google as it is run by the same outfit I believe. But what would one have to do to bring this or your blog for that matter into the front page of a several major search engines?



I looked at some other blog hosts ( if that's what you call a company giving you free blog space?). I thought it could be a good idea to try starting a totally different blog , but keep this going as I really feel I have established something here even if it is purely for my own entertainment, constructive criticism and for maintaining the delusion that my work has been published and publically exhibited .

I am stil encountering technical problems .If I did not have a teenage helper I don't think I would ever have uploaded a single image in a format that I intended . For example . The first drawing called : Leyla, Dozens of times I 'posted ' and received messages stating that it had been successfully published without any result. When I did get the help I mentioned, The picture was evenually published with a big blank rectangle next to it destroying the effect of a decent looking publication I had hoped for. Got there in the end and it was not as 'Simple ' as I had hoped .

I suppose I have learnt something about blogging and that is , as in any pleasurable
, addictive , possibly harmful habit; one has to take control and if not give up all together at least become its master and practise harm minimisation :I am logging off now.......for a while.