The Blogg Err…

logging is exciting and like all things that are exciting it has its rush and addiction. Please note that I am using the term ‘Blogging’ loosely to denote traditional text blogging, video, which has come to be known as vlogging in modern parlance and podcasting, which makes me think of radio liberated from its traditional trappings. Anyway, as a blogger, as soon as you have finished a piece a new piece that you might have been working on on the side beckons. Sometimes, this new work might just have been an idea that has been brewing and germinating in your head without you tempering with its threads. An idea slowly taking shape and suddenly thrusted at the center of your imagination. And the fact that you have learned new tricks’a hacko from one of the most recent projects you have completed might give you the itch to go on blogging without paucity to reflect. Eager to implement your new them tricks’a hackos in the next work. You need to chew and swallow and think about the taste and smell of what’s in your plate.

You see this blogging business is not as smooth swift as it may seem. There are technical configurations that you need to consider before you post a new work such as tags and categories. These tools help to situate the work appropriately within the blogosphere; firstly, within your site and then the internet. While each work you share as blogpost needs to be tagged and categorized uniquely, there may be a need to borrow and duplicate certain tags and categories depending on what you are blogging about regularly, especially if the work is related. Like making art, it is mostly an enjoyable process. It is just the rush to post new work that becomes problematic down the road.

If the rush wave pulls you along with it you may forget to take care of those borrowed configurations that were meant for the previous post, especially if you are working from a copy as a starting point, and for whatever valid reasons, you are hard pressed for time and would like to make new work available to your audience. You may end up erring, misappropriating tags and categories meant the previous one work for the newer work. Hysterically speaking this might even include excerpts. And excerpts are lovely tools that need delicacy in their handling. Now unless you are working on a tight series, excepts for different blogposts are seldomly the same. In the blogosphere excepts are like liner notes. Excerpts, as you may have guessed a sentence or so ago, are a good way to highlight what a specific work you may be sharing is about at a whiff. They are sort of marketing ploys for the blog pieces. Can you imagine what happens if a vital tool, such as an excerpt, ends up being attached to a work that has nothing to do with it? I can. Think about a picture meant for someone else sent to the wrong person, particularly the very person who is not supposed to see that picture in the first place. I think that should suffice. That’s just how bad it is. This is a mistake that I have committed countless times in my blogging stint. I think ten out of ten of the pieces that I have written or podcasted and blogged so far, I have committed this error six times out of ten.

Taking stock of things, I notice that while this years’ SASOL New Signatures features were blogged unscathed by my erroneous behavior, including Magic Tree Books feature as well this year’s first Blank Canvas Edition, erroneous blogging catches up with me when I move on to the trailer of The next interception. This will be the next installment of the Blank Canvas edition series. It is in its final preparatory stages. But let me not be sidetracked. If you did not notice the excerpt error a day or so ago, I suspect you did, this recent blogpost initially carried liner notes of Morena Justice Mokoena’s feature, titled Tracings. This was an error on my part. I would like to apologise to you for committing this error. It was an oversight. I did not allocate time for final checkups because I was eager to share this new work that will feature The Hymnotic Pierce, the interview with Morena Phoka Nyokong. Pinky swears strues’god I will try to be as crisp as ever for you and anyone else who may take an interest in my work. Even if it means blogging at a rate of one to two months. The work should be worth a wait. Afterall our work survives us. Our work stands for us when we are not there to demarcate our position in matters of the world that are of interest to us. Our work shapes how history will receive us.