Well I finally decided to jump ship and leave Live Journal. So many things about the site were not workable for what I wanted to do, let alone the pages to post, edit, spell check took forever to load (along with the looooong wait for the commercials to end). I’ve been spending the last few days moving my reviews over to this site, as well as some from Amazon I’ve had since before blogging. I really like the category feature and you can look for a specific period/locale and click to see books I’ve reviewed – and yes I did include a wall banger category – some things never change.
I may have a duplicate review here and there (I’ve already caught two) so if you spot one please leave a comment and let me know, as well as any suggestions for making the site easier. I’m still getting used to what I can and can’t do here at WP and in that initial learning curve. I’m thinking about putting something up in the near future on Roberta Gellis’ Roselynde Chronicles and there is definitely a Wall Banger Wednesday coming your way soon 🙂
As for FTC disclosure – many of these reviews were written well before the disclosure rules went into effect and I had no desire to add extra copy and paste tasks to what I was already doing. I’ve added a book source category for the FTC man or he can come and ask me himself. Personally I think they should be putting some effort into Harriet and her many blogs. Last I checked she’s not doing anything about it.
Just wanted to say “hi” and that I’ve followed you to your new blog :o)
Kathy, you are my very first commenter, thank you and glad to see you here.
Yay to new digs! You will be able to decorate and change things and have lots of fun I am sure!
Hi I’ve managed to follow you as well, but what is FTC?
Stumpy, FTC is one of our big ole’ US governing bodies making life
bettermore complicated for everyone (I’m being sarcastic, they mostly do good things). They currently require bloggers (only bloggers, not review websites) to disclose the source of their books, i.e. if they got them from the publisher free in hopes of a review. That said, Harriet has several blogs and doesn’t comply so whatever.Welcome! Commenting on LJ was so annoying that I rarely did it. Hopefully I’ll comment much more now your here. I hope you enjoy blogging with wordpress.
Thanks Jackie. I had never intended to *blog* at all and was just playing around with the LJ account I had and then *someone* who shall remain nameless outed me. Everything is easier here. I agree about the commenting difficulty, I’ve had that with some blogger sites as well, depending on their comment settings. I can’t count how many times blogger has eaten a comment and then it turns out I posted it five times :p
Welcome to WP, I hated LJ’s comments so I rarely said anything, now I’ll be commenting a lot more! 😉
Looking forward to it. I can’t believe how easier everything is and how much more I can do. Let alone now I can see search phrases. Nothing strange yet though :p
Glad you’re settling in over here. I love WP! And I’m looking forward to an archive binge on all your old reviews.
It would be quite easy to add an FTC disclaimer in the sidebar using a text widget – but I agree with you that if they were actually pursuing individual bloggers, we all know who would be first against the wall!
Thanks Miss M. I might play with that, but I also prefer to be up front which came free in the review. More often then not they’re library books anyway. I’d post the link to the catalog but you’d swoon with envy 🙂
Oh, I hope they go after Harriet one of these days. Please.