From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 04:42:32 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BE4A106566C for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 04:42:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from xaero@xaerolimit.net) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BBCE8FC0C for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2011 04:42:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so7505855ewy.13 for ; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:42:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.109.9 with SMTP id h9mr200624ebp.38.1294288950914; Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:42:30 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.8.142 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Jan 2011 20:42:10 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110106041332.GA24859@thought.org> References: <20110106041332.GA24859@thought.org> From: Chris Brennan Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 23:42:10 -0500 Message-ID: To: Gary Kline Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: blog-site questions.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:42:32 -0000 On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:13 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > Guys, > > If there are any people who are into maintaining web logs/blog, this > might be _the_ place to ask. O/wise, type 'd' now. > > One thing I've heard several times is that blogging is a good way of > promoting one's own books. (I've got at least three books either > published or to-be-published. [[ ... .]]) Now, outside this list > nobody knows me--and that's fine, WAIT! Who's Gary Kline? > except that with a just published > ebook, it's time to make my name and ebook public. Before I rush > out and sign up with some blogging websites, would be be better to > use a FBSD port and do it myself? > > Ill be open about this: I'm still not _entirely_ sure whata blog is. > But I'm a fast study :) > If there are better places to ask about web logs, URL's please... . > > gary > > PS: Any reason why nobody here has read my ebook? It is for geeks > and about open source stuff, so, like , v'mon, people > a Blog is a website ... think wordpress, blogger.com or livejournal.com just to name a few .... personally, I'm an lj lifer, that's all I've ever used. That being said ... if there is a port it would be something like workpress (and/or joomla and the ilk). which will just do what you can do yourself by grabbing the sources from their perspective websites and install yourself in about 10 minutes. Very easy to do. If you want to promote some of your written work ... get a domain and set one of these up for yourself. My personal opinion says that if you've set up a domain to promote a book yourself vs using something like blogger.com/livejournal.com/wordpress.com (yes they will give you your very own blog, free of charge under their domain). In my eyes, these look very unprofessional. This is an argument I've had with my roommates side business on more then one occasion ... usually after he wonders why his business generates about 1 client/mo. At the end of the day it's what you want to put out of pocket for the domain and hosting. C-