Bloggiesta! Update # 4

Anyone visiting for the first time? Then be aware that I am in the middle of a bigger Bloggiesta-operation. I have just changed from 2 to 3 columns, with the result that most of my content on the page disappeared. I had made some back up, specially for my blog roll, so it is not as big a deal as I had expected. But since it is now 11.20PM in Denmark, I am logging off for now, and will continue tomorrow adding my missing widgets, finding new blogs for my blog roll, visiting well known blogs and have more Bloggiesta-fun!

(Hours spent on doing Bloggiesta-tasks: 7½)

Bloggiesta! Update # 3

Its 6.30PM in Denmark and its time for a break from the Bloggiesta-festivities. Since beginning early this afternoon, I have completed one mini-challenge, been to a couple of blogs on my blogroll commenting, figured out what Stumble Upon is and how it is used (that wasn't so hard, LOL, thought it was much more technical), written a review, written a post using questions from last week's Weekly Geeks and written one post to be published later. I have just spent 1½ hour more on Bloggiesta-tasks, so my total count is now 4½ hours of Bloggiestaing. Now I will take a short break, check up on dinner and fix some strawberries so that they are ready for dessert (the image is not taken today, though). I will hopefully be back later after dinner and maybe a bit of TV.

Bloggiesta! Update # 2.

I did know it before Bloggiesta. But let me say it again: What a lot of great blogs out there. What an amazing amount of posts to read, comment on and think about. And how great it is to travel around the blogospehere to meet new bloggers. I have just completed the Bloggiesta mini-challenge hosted by Fizzy Thoughts, and while it took me longer than I had anticipated, I am glad I did finish it, because I have just found ten amazing and new-to-me blogs, which I am looking very much forward to visit again very soon. So I have put them all on my blogroll and hope that I can keep up to date. You should visit those blogs yourself if you don't know them already - I did see many well known bloggers on my little tour, so chances are that it is just me who has been absent, ignorant or something. Here is the list of great new-to-me blogs, and they are in no particular order:

Cindy's Love of Books

Melancholy Musings

Emily's Reading Room

Bart's Bookshelf

Poisoned Rationality

Chick With Books

Reading Upside Down

Liyanaland!

Book Blather

Secret Dreamworld of a Bookaholic

(One hour and a half spent on this challenge, total spent Bloggiestaing: 3 hours)

Bloggiesta! Update # 1.

I am well into the mini-challenge hosted by Fizzy Thoughts and have also begun some of my other Bloggiesta "tasks". Not really wanting to call it tasks, as I think it is fun! But after dinner, I am getting sleepier and sleepier, and now I am just plain dizzy from trying to follow all the #bloggiesta-tweets, thinking, laughing etc., and I will log off for today and relax a bit before heading to bed. As I type, the time is 10.35PM Danish time. Also, about 15 minutes ago my computer just shut down - I think it was from an overload with all the tabs and windows I had opened at the same time ;o) But that is what its like when there is a Bloggiesta ;o)

Thanks to Natasha for this great idea! I'll be back tomorrow, thinking and contemplating like Rodin's "Thinker" pictured on the image above. The photo is taken in the garden of the New Carlsberg Glyptotek here in Copenhagen.

(One hour more completed of Bloggiesta Challenge)

Bloggiesta! Its here!

The Bloggiesta, hosted by Natasha from Maw Books Blog, has begun....in fact, a lot of bloggers already have their first updates up and running, and many are tweeting about it (use #bloggiesta to search).

I am in Denmark, and local time as I type is now 7.30PM - it will be a little later when I actually post this. I have worked all day, and haven't had the chance to blog before now. I plan to spend several hours on the challenge throughout the weekend, starting now with this first post. Tonight I will be on and off the computer (mainly because I need to think about some dinner), and hopefully I can spend at least 5 hours tomorrow and 5 hours Sunday. That is my goal.

Here is what my Bloggiesta to-do-list look like so far - in no particular order:

Write back-up posts for when I am away and more or less off line for at least 10 days next month. Back up posts could be some of those background-posts on literary themes such as Southern Literature, that I have contemplated forever, my own little YA-challenge, what books I've bought lately and much more. Luckily I have a lot of ideas.

Catch up on Blog Improvement Project

Write posts including questions asked by other bloggers from the latest Weekly Geeks

Visit as many blogs as possible and write meaningful comments OR at least an "I was here" comment

Tidying up labels-list and think about new labels to add

Adding new blogs to my blogroll

Remove dead links and blogs w/o activity

Asking the book-blogging community how to-questions

Find out how to make a 3-columned blogger-blog without the system automatically deleting everything in the sidebar OR just install the darn 3-columned template and spend the time necessary to fill in the blogroll and all the other stuff that will go missing

Find out how stumble it, feedburner, technorati, etc works (and what it is!)

Find out how to make use of all the social networking-pages I have signed up for or deleting them.

Find out how other Blogger-bloggers can actually see how many visitors they have, because I sure cannot figure out the stats I can check through my profile

I am probably going to think of more as I get going on the tasks, but this is it for now. I know there were some things I thought about which I haven't mentioned, but I forgot what it was, and of course I wasn't smart enough to write it down! Now I am going to spend a few minutes tweeting, then dinner and then back to BLOGGIESTA!

(First half hour completed)

Bloggiesta - next weekend for 48 hours

Natasha from Maw Books Blog is hosting a great 48-hour bloggiesta, which I plan to participate in. You should click any of the links above to get the full text and the ideas behind the bloggiesta. I think it sounds like a great idea and am looking forward to participate. Hopefully I will get a lot of those bloggy-things done which I have neglected for almost half a year. Check it out.