A few years ago I began loosening the chains around this blog. A friend once told me he found this blog by cross referencing my name with email accounts. Apparently I was never truly anonymous anyhow.
My 2011 New Year’s Resolution was to link TBT to my personal Facebook. That was a neat experiment. In June I created my first iMovie post which was in effect, letting the first part of the cat out of the bag. Today’s post is the whole cat.
Regardless, I will always be Brazen. I have little desire to make this Rebecca Borrelli’s blog.
First AND last name. I feel so brave.
The era of anonymity is over and now is an appropriate time– I have been excited to link TBT to Longhorn Confidential– The University of Texas’ student blog. I was over the moon about being selected as their graduate student writer, and linking my school blog with this one has been a goal for a few months. It’s small beans, but I’m kind of proud and wanted to share.
A few changes will commence today.
First: One SMALL brazen post a week. No more novellas. The novella approach isn’t sustainable as is apparent by month long silent gaps.
Second: How to do the whole blog subscription thing? I’ve always manually visited blogs I liked. That’s not very conducive either. Any suggestions for keeping up with y’all better? Google Reader is Japanese to me.
It’s been a pleasure to write as Brazen for nearly five years. Now it’s a pleasure to write as me.
I’m excited to meet you.
It’s very nice to meet you Rebecca! I’ve been reading your blog for awhile, then lost track of you. I’m very happy to see you’re back!
-Matt aka The Visual Geek ( Formerly “Geeks R’ Us” )
Your goals are similar to mine- though I am sure that comes as no surprise to you. The google reader style of following other people’s blogs is pretty straight forward and probably the easiest to implement if you will be following multiple blogs
It will give you a short, quick shot, of the current blog posts and you can click each respective blog to see the the full post, if you would like.
Blah blah blah technology. I love your posts and can’t wait to chat! As always you are an inspiration and a centered perspective that you yourself probably don’t realize.
Congrats and I look forward to the future integration.
Hi Rebecca,
Here’s how I use Google Reader. First navigate to google.com/reader while signed into a Google account and make sure Google Reader is enabled for your account.
Next, make sure that your browser supports RSS, which is an additional extension for Google Chrome (is it supported by default in Firefox) so that subscribing is easier. Once you have the little RSS icon showing up in your address bar, just click on it, and follow the steps that appear to add the feed to Google Reader.
Alternatively, you can copy the URL of the blogs you like to visit, go to Google Reader and click on the “subscribe” button and paste in the URL of the blog to which you’d like to subscribe, and Google Reader will attempt to figure out the subscription information for you.
Hope this helps,
David
Hello, Rebecca.
~Michael
I use Google’s Dashboard and sometimes Reader. They’ve just updated (ruined) Reader – new staff who don’t understand it’s original purpose.
An alternative might be Bloglovin though I’ve never tried it.