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some technical notes
I have no idea how many people are actually reading this weblog since I moved it. There is still a fair amount of activity at the old server site, and I haven't figured out how to read the stats over here yet. Not that it matters; I'll muddle along whether I'm talking to you or to myself. But a few organizational matters need to be sorted.
First, while I believe I actually deleted the earlier version of storytelling at saralaughs.com, it's still showing up. How that can be, I have no idea. Maybe I'll have the energy to figure it out tomorrow.
Second, inspite of helpful hints from various people, I still haven't been able to make the redirect work. Also a matter for tomorrow. Or the day after.
Third, while I was busy with my machete, hacking away at the old weblog site, I checked the logs. The ones that tell me what people were searching for when they visited. For a long time I've been meaning to raise this topic, but I put it off because I'm not sure I can say what needs to be said without sounding condescending or mean. But listen. If you're using the search box (lower right hand column) because you want to find something, try to keep it to one or two of the most salient words. This is what I mean. If you search for:
reviews and evaluations on the book "Look Ma I Published a Book" by Sammy Wiseman... then you are going to get a ton of hits, every time the word 'reviews' and 'evaluations' and 'book' show up in a weblog posting. In this case, it makes most sense just to search the word 'Wiseman' or even 'Sammy' -- which is fairly uncommon. Search engines don't work well with whole phrases. Here's another search string that is badly formed:
writing about sex in scenes with men and women not slashThis isn't going to reap anything useful, because the search engine isn't going to see 'not slash' as a phrase. It's just going to go along on its mindless way and give you a list of every post with a 'not' in it. Not to mention posts with 'sex' and 'writing' and 'scenes'.
Here are some searches I noted which make sense: 'Gabaldon' 'sex' 'Deadwood' 'Wilderness' 'slash' 'orgasm'. Most probably these people found what they were looking for. Or at least a discussion of what they were looking for. Of course, the category archives in the right hand column would probably be a quicker way to find the posts in question, and also, I must note: this list does make it look as though all I write about is writing sex scenes, which is not true. For example, tomorrow I'm going to write about Category Seven novels, specifically the lists that people have come up with, and whether or not I opening up this can of worms is proving useful.
February 8, 2005 12:52 AM
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I found the new home of Storytelling pretty easily, and I've been keeping up!
Posted by: Christy at February 8, 2005 06:09 AM
Keep in mind that with MT, even after you delete the database, the static files are still hanging around.
As an aside -- a photo! Nice to put a face to the name(s).
I'm so swamped right now that I'm just skimming. Back with deeper thoughts later.
Posted by: Steph at February 8, 2005 08:27 AM
I made it over here. Nice digs.
Posted by: Lanna Lee Maheux-Quinn at February 8, 2005 12:53 PM
Also got here no problem and just saved this address into my favourites.
Since it was mentioned, thought you might be interested to know that Deadwood is making it to NZ television this year. A 'must watch' for me after reading your reviews and comments on the series.
Posted by: Alison at February 8, 2005 03:22 PM