... here and there, at least for now. I almost entitled this "closing down this journal", but decided that this would suggest that I was shutting down my membership at a time when I had barely made any use of it. No, nothing as rash as that. I'll still be submitting deviations for a while.

What I probably won't be doing is posting many more journal entries to this site for the forseeable future. A blog without a feed, especially a blog that is updated as infrequently as mine tend to be, is useless. Give the visitor who wants to follow what you're doing a feed, and he can take that feed, maybe go over to Yahoo, set up a pipe, merge your infrequently updated feed with maybe a number of other feeds, and when you post something new, out it pops on his desktop. But leave out the feed, and what you are then asking your visitor to do is to keep checking back on the off chance that maybe you posted something today.

I can't picture any visitor of mine without obsessive compulsive disorder doing that, and I wouldn't ask him to do so. What I'm going to do, for now, is to send the comments that would have gone onto this journal over to Monday Never Comes and The Urban Backpacker's Quarterly, two journals at Blogger that I'm trying to build up interest in, probably eventually sliding them over Joseph Dunphy's Myopic Midnight Special at Wordpress and Cocktails Before Dawn, sending light toned pictures to where I can set them against a lighter background, and darker toned pictures to where I can set them against a black background.

Or something like that. More later, probably elsewhere.



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Addendum, 6:30 pm Chicago time, same day:

OK, this pretty much clinched it for me: In this thread, which is specifically devoted to the issue of RSS feeds, I responded to a few people who invented their own facts by bringing up a few real facts. For example, somebody directs the reader to the FAQ question about feeds in such a ways as to leave the impression that one will be told about the use of feeds for individual galleries, when in fact the contents of that page read

"Are RSS feeds available?
to be updated.......... "

The moderator responded by locking the thread, which should tell any reasonable individual listening in just how responsive this site will be to this or any other site functionality issue. Waiting for the staff to fix anything would obviously be foolish, as would investing much effort blogging in an environment in which censorship is indulged in so lightly. I said, earlier, with great firmness that I would be submitting more deviations, and I meant it at the time, but perhaps I need to read more about this site and find out if that's really a good idea. Time to do a few Google searches and maybe drop by Mashable and learn a little more about this place that I was in such a hurry to establish a presence on.




10:16 pm Looking under "DeviantArt" and "censorship", I pulled up a large number of hits, but outside the censorship in the fora, the complaints have seemed weak. In one case, somebody had uploaded code for hacking purposes, in another somebody was angry because one now had to be logged in and over 18 to see adult images ... in general, the censoriousness of DeviantArt only seems to apply to posted commentary, not to actual artwork.

I'll keep looking, but some of the uneasy feeling about DeviantArt that arrogantly sleazy moderator had left me with is starting to dissipate. I'll never post to the forums again, but what I'm seeing so far makes this look like a good place to post deviations.