inkygirl

So I went into technonerdgirl mode yesterday and created Inkygirl (http://www.inkygirl.com).

Yeah, yeah, I know I just finished writing a Blathering about shutting down online projects so I can focus more on my writing. But if you read the entry closely, I only talked about shutting down some NON-WRITING projects. :-)

The fact is, I was already bookmarking interesting-looking writing-related sites, keeping a list of promising job listings for telecommuting writers, and doodling the occasional writing-related comic. Now I'm just putting it all in one place and giving it a name. I'm also hoping that this central page will help cross-promote my various writing-related projects. Eventually I may try to syndicate some of the content, but first I want to see how it goes. I've purposely set no firm update schedule.

I had been planning to learn PHP so I could pull content from multiple blogs into one place, but I just found out about a new Movable Type plug-in that does everything I need. The main Inkygirl page thus includes content from three separate blogs: my general Inkygirl blog, my writing comics blog, and my freelance job listing blog.

I'm also starting to experiment with Trackback, but still don't entirely understand how this works. What I do understand, however, looks pretty cool. I notice Harald uses this in his blog. I tried pinging one of his entries from a test MT blog, though, and it didn't seem to work (my ping didn't appear in his Trackback log).

Now that I've gone through the process of setting up Inkygirl, I realize how realtively easy from a technical standpoint (compared to starting up a print magazine) it would be to set up an online magazine or community blog if one had the time, disk space and knowledge. Hm....perhaps this is something I could write an article about.

Anyway, I've added a link to Inkygirl in the links menu in the column on the left.

Hope you're all having a great weekend!

Blatherpic:

I created this logo in Painter yesterday. Font: LunaITC TT-Bold.