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Post by lou on Jul 21, 2015 9:32:25 GMT -5
loucadle.blogspot.com/With the exception of the May Meltdown (a natural disaster occurring entirely within the confines of my own skull this year, with aftershocks in June), I try to post three times a month about natural disasters--either news, home preparation, historically notable disasters, or science. In November, I post four times about writing. Most recently, as I create this thread, a brief article on the Tangshan Earthquake. One of my favorite posts so far, a quiz on earthquakes and volcanoes.
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Post by Becca Mills on Jul 21, 2015 11:40:08 GMT -5
Wow. I didn't know about that quake, even though it happened in my lifetime. Yowza.  I totally fell for the No. 7 trick.  |
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Post by Daniel on Jul 21, 2015 12:27:54 GMT -5
Interesting stuff, Lou. I could spend hours reading your posts.
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Post by whdean on Jul 21, 2015 18:15:54 GMT -5
That's actually kind of a neat idea.
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Post by lou on Jul 21, 2015 19:43:59 GMT -5
Wow. I didn't know about that quake, even though it happened in my lifetime. Yowza. I totally fell for the No. 7 trick. Well, it was partly the Maoists and control of news that made you not know. ("everything is fine, really! nothing to look at here!") And the trick was mean, I admit. |
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Post by lou on Jul 21, 2015 19:47:53 GMT -5
Interesting stuff, Lou. I could spend hours reading your posts. What a kind thing to say! |
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Post by lou on Jul 21, 2015 19:49:00 GMT -5
That's actually kind of a neat idea. Thanks, but what part is a neat idea? Tell me so I don't quit doing it! lol. |
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Post by whdean on Jul 21, 2015 21:16:53 GMT -5
That's actually kind of a neat idea. Thanks, but what part is a neat idea? Tell me so I don't quit doing it! lol. The idea of aggregating disasters/geological events, etc. It struck me as a novel idea. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 23:19:06 GMT -5
Interesting stuff, Lou. I could spend hours reading your posts. Me too  |
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Post by Daniel on Jul 22, 2015 8:12:13 GMT -5
Thanks, but what part is a neat idea? Tell me so I don't quit doing it! lol. The idea of aggregating disasters/geological events, etc. It struck me as a novel idea. I think Lou is on the right track from a marketing standpoint. I see my blog as a place to connect with my readers, so I try to post content that would be of interest to my audience, as she is doing. In some cases that means information about my characters or story world, but it also might mean information related to the subject matter of my books. For example, when I get guest posts from other writers, I ask for an article about how their magic system works. I now have a collection of magic system articles on my site. I haven't done so yet, but I've considered posting articles about the topics I've researched for my stories. Doing so would let me turn those countless hours of research I've done into collateral marketing material that might help sell my books. Also, researching with the purpose of sharing what I learned might help me be more organized about how I traverse the rabbit hole. Lou's blog not only appeals to her current readers, it draws in a wider audience of disaster buffs--the very people who are most likely to enjoy her books. It's the next best thing to getting free publicity. |
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Post by lou on Jul 22, 2015 11:17:41 GMT -5
Interesting stuff, Lou. I could spend hours reading your posts. Me too Thank you! Thanks all for the discussions, too, which I'm finding useful. Yeah, the getting two bangs out of my research buck was part of my thinking, too. I am an over-researcher. (Want to know what they're doing to improve signal to noise ratio in buried volcanic sensor equipment arrays? Yeah, I know, no one but them cares, but I knew. I can't help myself. I have thirty research hours in that topic, and I used one detail in a book: blue plastic tub.) I try to tag articles so anyone looking for X topic recently might find it through google plus (which is a benefit of using blogger, which is why I'll stay there for now.) (Oops, just reminded me to go tweet the last blog post, too, with #earthquake.) |
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Post by Daniel on Jul 22, 2015 16:29:54 GMT -5
I try to tag articles so anyone looking for X topic recently might find it through google plus (which is a benefit of using blogger, which is why I'll stay there for now.) One nice thing about Blogger is that they allow you to attach your own domain name to your blog without a fee (unlike Wordpress.com). I recommend that you get your own domain name (e.g. loucadle.com) and start using it ASAP. That way, you can move your blog later without changing the domain name. Moving from a subdomain like loucadle.blogspot.com (which you can't duplicate anywhere else) you will lose all your search engine spidering, link love from other sites, and domain longevity points. Your blog will effectively start over as if it had never existed on the Internet, and none of the existing links to it will work any longer. Even with a dedicated domain, your individual page links may break when you move elsewhere (depending upon how you set up your new blog), but you can often use a redirect plugin to map old URLs to new ones. |
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Post by lou on Aug 23, 2015 16:38:11 GMT -5
A new history post, for those of you who like that: Krakatoa. |
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Post by Daniel on Aug 24, 2015 8:00:26 GMT -5
Thanks, Lou! Would you say Krakatoa was the biggest eruption since worldwide communication systems have existed? Also, you mentioned that the eruption revealed information about high-level winds. Is that how they learned about the jet stream?
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Post by lou on Aug 24, 2015 10:48:42 GMT -5
Thanks, Lou! Would you say Krakatoa was the biggest eruption since worldwide communication systems have existed? Also, you mentioned that the eruption revealed information about high-level winds. Is that how they learned about the jet stream? By death toll, yes, probably the biggest post-telegraph: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_volcanic_eruptions_by_death_toll. Also, though other eruptions have come close in tons of ejecta, the fact that the island blew itself up was and is awfully cool. (unless you were there. not cool, then.) The other contender for "biggest" by death toll was Mount Pelee in the Caribbean. That one is interesting enough for a couple blog posts. (Especially the death by exploding heads business--gross, but true. Hot ash falling thickly makes blood boil so quickly that each person sort of functions like a little volcano himself and the head explodes from the pressure, even before you fall down dead from something else. "Gross" actually doesn't really get close to how gross that is, does it?) Problem for reporting/news of it was, pretty much everyone in the island's big town died in it (one guy, in prison underground, survived, as I recall), so you don't get the same sorts of first-person accounts. (ETA: also, come to think of it, I have no idea what the state of cables to the Caribbean was in 1902.) Pinatubo was large, and well-filmed, and that one shot you can find out there of a jeep fleeing from a pyroclastic flow is worth a million words, but evacuations were well-handled and deaths under 1000. Novarupta in Alaska is so remote, it didn't get good press, nor kill anyone. Yes, that is how the jet stream was identified, though it took more work to understand it better. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream#Discovery Thanks for asking. I can talk about this stuff for hours.  |
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Post by Daniel on Aug 24, 2015 14:52:41 GMT -5
Great stuff, Lou. I look forward to future blog posts. |
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Post by lou on Oct 19, 2015 11:27:53 GMT -5
yesterday's post. How to write a two-sentence review of a book.I have a pal who reads almost entirely indie books and never reviews. She has read some of yours, even! She just finished Alan's. But she never reviews. So I wrote this with her in mind. Feel free to link to it. |
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Post by lou on Nov 22, 2015 9:50:32 GMT -5
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Post by Daniel on Nov 23, 2015 7:57:03 GMT -5
It was fun to read the article and see what everyone had to say. Thanks for putting it together Lou!
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Post by lou on Nov 23, 2015 8:39:02 GMT -5
It was fun to read the article and see what everyone had to say. Thanks for putting it together Lou! you are most welcome. It was a fun article to read, I think...and I hope some of you got a sale or download as a result! |
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