Endure Fort» Blogging http://choskins.co.uk Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:44:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Blackberry Blogging http://choskins.co.uk/2009/01/14/blackberry-blogging/ http://choskins.co.uk/2009/01/14/blackberry-blogging/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:28:24 +0000 Chris Hoskins http://chrishoskins.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/blackberry-blogging/ Continue reading »]]> Just before Christmas I got a new phone, a blackberry bold, its awesome. I’m not writing this so I can brag about it, this is a test to see how well it works for blogging.
Seems like it will be just fine. It only does the basics, I’m not sure how to add links this way or how to add photos, but I can always do that afterwards if I save things as drafts!
Basically, it seems my blogging opportunities have been expanded muchos!
I’m trying to learn some new photography techniques, yesterday I started teaching myself how to take photos of moving water so that you get that misty, ethereal kind of effect. I’m quite chuffed with the outcomes so far!
My next technique to learn is moonshots. Usually when I take photos of the moon it comes out as a shimmery blob in the sky. Thanks to my friends Stewart Cutler and Lizzie Sharp, I have some tips and tricks on how to do so. When I get to a computer I’ll put up some examples and how I took them.
I’m currently sitting on a train on my way to a meeting in Dunblane where a small group of us are getting together to discuss Youth Ministry in the Church of Scotland. Should be an interesting meeting, hopefully with some good outcomes!
It’s quite gutting that I have to get the train at 530am to get to a 10am meeting, the joys of living in Aberdeen!
I’m also trying out my new mp3 player for the first time since Linda gave me it for Christmas, sound quality is great, capacity is great, only issue is that it seems to have downloaded every single sound file on the computer except the music files kept in itunes, for some reason it downloaded all the podcasts I have. Wierd.
Anyway, I suspect this post is nothing more than the 6am ramblings of a tired man, so I’ll head of and let you read something sensible elsewhere!

Peace out

Chris

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]]> http://choskins.co.uk/2009/01/14/blackberry-blogging/feed/ 1 Death of blogging? http://choskins.co.uk/2008/12/04/death-of-blogging/ http://choskins.co.uk/2008/12/04/death-of-blogging/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:03:46 +0000 Chris Hoskins http://chrishoskins.wordpress.com/?p=62 Continue reading »]]> Read this interesting article today, courtesy of ripkungler on twitter.

Is blogging dead just because its become mainstream? I doubt it! It’s maybe not as elite as it once was, but I would argue that the fact its becoming mainstream, becoming more popular, shows growth, not death! I didn’t start blogging until September this year and since I’ve started I’ve noticed more and more of my friends start blogging and discovered even more that already did!

So yeah, maybe it has become less elitist and more mainstream, but why is that a bad thing? Why should such a valuable online tool be utilised by only a few?

Keep blogging people!

Peace out

Chris

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