Guerilla Blogging
The hardest part of Guerilla Blogging is finding your cursor when the daylight casts a glare on your computer screen. You’ll need to learn how to balance your lap top while riding a bike, turn your laptop carrying case into a makeshift mouse pad, and be ready to pick up and move at a moment’s notice when the wireless signal gets low. There will likely be gnats and other bugs to contend with and discomfort from sitting on the ground. And don’t even try guerilla blogging if you can’t get used to being stared at by people walking or riding by. Some will stop and ask what you’re doing. Be prepared to explain what blogging is. Some people still don’t know.
Where’s the strangest place you’ve blogged from?
Photo: Picking up wireless in the woods next to The Hunting Island State Park Ranger’s house. The ranger says the whole park will probably be wireless within a year or two.
March 11th, 2006 5:09 pm
I posted blogs from some make-shift computers in Central America… as far as carrying my computer or even blogging from a phone or blackberry when I am in the wild, I don’t want it to happen and I hope to continue to go to places where wi-fi will be a long time coming. However, good picture!
March 11th, 2006 6:54 pm
Hilarious….
Michele sent me..
Unfortunately I haven’t blogged from any place that is strange! Boring old me!!!
March 11th, 2006 7:40 pm
I’ve sent a few blog entries in from my Treo phone (which has a little keyboard). They always have many more typos, so when I finally look at them on a normal laptop, I feel compelled to straighten them up.
March 11th, 2006 7:41 pm
ps nice photo
March 11th, 2006 7:50 pm
Wow.. this is amazing.. and looks like so much fun. The only place I blog from is my home… sounds kind of boring now :-).
March 11th, 2006 8:27 pm
I love the thought of such adventurous blogging! If I had known about blogging when I was in Scotland, I could have bragged about posting from a tiny visitor’s center perched precariously on the side of a mountain. It had one computer, to my amazement. I wasn’t blogging then, so I sent emails.
March 12th, 2006 12:39 am
Great shot! My laptop is pre-wifi, so I blog from home and sometimes from the library (which has zippy DSL in contrast to my lumbering dial-up). My journal notebook is another story, having traveled with me on five continents; on land, water, and air; in cities and woods and through various modes of transportation.
March 12th, 2006 6:24 am
I haven’t blogged from any strange places, unless of course, you consider a home office – decorated with eclectic furnishings, completely unrelated wall hangings, and shelves spewing papers and books in every direction as strange.
I love the photo. I’d caption that one “Nothing can stop me!”
March 12th, 2006 9:52 am
I have blogged from the potty while waiting for a hot bath to fill:) Nowhere else really interesting.
March 12th, 2006 10:40 am
Some day I will get a nice, sturdy, little wireless laptop and blog on the run. Boy I can really bore people to death then with all the trivia I do throughout the day ;-). My daughter is planning a girl trip to Italy with me and her Mother-in-law this fall…we are saving like crazy right now…maybe I will be able to blog from some place there…that certainly sounds exotic, if not very original.
March 12th, 2006 1:56 pm
I don’t have a laptop so the most unusual place I’ve blogged is from work, which I probably shouldn’t do. But I’ve done it. Covert blogging!
March 12th, 2006 2:41 pm
I love that picture. You look so furtive, the feral blogger in her natural habitat.
March 12th, 2006 5:42 pm
Hi Colleen….
Amazing, isn’t it that even in a seemingly remote place like that you can still Blog! WOW!
Here from Michele today, My Dear…
March 12th, 2006 5:44 pm
Interesting. One of my blogger pals is setting off on a cross country trip on a trike this year. Click around his blog for all his preparations. He is also a brilliant blogger in general:
http://www.astonsihedhead.com
Good luck. I will click around your place to find out more about your guerilla tactics.
March 12th, 2006 9:17 pm
Love the blogging in the wild pic. I’ve only blogged at home, and work. I suppose I need to be a little more adventurous.
March 12th, 2006 9:29 pm
(Looseleafs):
My name is “Looseleafs” and I’m a blogaholic.
(guerilla bloggers):
….. hello Looseleafs
~michele sent me
March 12th, 2006 10:10 pm
Not really strange, but the Cleveland Airport. I finished oral argument in the Cuyahoga Appellate Court earlier and had a couple of hours to kill. I’m very private and I kept feeling like someone could read over my shoulder. Silly, I know, since anyone reading as I wrote wouldn’t know me any more than someone reading my site.
Anyway, that’s the strangest. Michele sent me.
March 12th, 2006 11:16 pm
I think your site for blogging takes the cake. Maybe a tie with Vicki’s bee infested bench in Florida.
March 12th, 2006 11:48 pm
The only other place, besides the spare bedroom where my computer, is when I had it in the dining room for 4 months when Chrissie and Sami lived here. If I had a laptop, which I don’t, I’d be blogging everywhere.
March 13th, 2006 4:15 pm
I gave you the wrong URL for my coast-to-coast trike blogger.
It’s
http://www.astonishedhead.com
March 13th, 2006 7:47 pm
My laptop is with me 24 hours a day, seven days a week and through my work, I’ve got an air card that is sort of like a mobile phone for your PC. You can use it to connect to the Internet anywhere you have a mobile phone signal. But I always go for the open wireless first since it’s so much faster. I’ve used it to blog from just about anywhere and everywhere. I was once stuck in traffic and updated my website while waiting for things to get moving. That was only interesting because I was driving, albeit only at about one mile an hour. I love your photo too. And boy do I agree about seeing the screen in the sun, it’s a very hard thing to do. Glad you guys made it back safely. At least you didn’t have to adjust to freezing temperatures when you got home.