Lavender Crocs Report on WordCamp 2007 Israel
Her split personality always causes tension at blogging time. We help her brainstorm ideas for posts, but she has her own agenda. However, she does get guilt feelings about neglecting us whenever there’s a blogging conference.
This morning, we had a premonition in our soles that she was going to let us write a post for the first time in months! On Thursday she went to the WordCamp 2007 Israel conference, so we were bound to get to write.
In any case, the WordCamp conference was all about using WordPress, but she uses Joomla for her other blog. You have no idea how jealous she is of us, because we blog on WordPress.
We just can’t believe what she did after the blogging conference. Instead of posting about the conference, she decided to do housekeeping on her other blog!
Lorelle came to Israel for the conference, and among other things, she lectured about trackback spam.
Tamar went into a frenzy after that. She became obsessed with clearing out over 13,000 trackback spams on her other blog (she wrote that there were 10,000 trackback spams, but that’s because it was 2:00 a.m. when she wrote the post and it just proves that you shouldn’t write when you are overtired).
Our friend Ilana was at the conference too. Ilana declared in public that she didn’t want to use WordPress for her blog, and caused a lot of commotion in the Israeli blogosphere.
Ilana is right: having to keep up an independent blog is a lot more technical work than using someone else’s platform. Fact: Ilana wrote her post right after the conference, while Tamar ended up doing housekeeping on hers, and then writing a boring post. But Mark is right too: When you’re using someone else’s platform out of convenience, you could go down with the ship.
We write so sporadically that if our blog were on a free platform, we’d probably get closed down for not logging in often enough. That’s what happened to all Tamar’s stuff that was on Tripod and the old Geocities. Gone! Disappeared!
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October 27th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
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October 28th, 2007 at 12:01 am
Hey Ilana, we missed you too! Don’t worry about Tamar, she’ll get over it. We think it’s great that your blog got so much publicity.
And for your information: we are made of PCCR, a closed-cell material that virtually eliminates odour!
What you didn’t notice, is that we forgot how to spell our name. In the title of this post we wrote Crocks. Time for bed now….
October 28th, 2007 at 7:33 pm
And I talked a lot about comment spam, too.
It was so much fun and there was so much to learn from everyone, participants, too. I had a blast.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Hi Lorelle, we are so pleased that you commented on our blog.
We wish we could have met you, but Tamar wouldn’t let us go to the conference. We went to the last conference and embarrassed her because we were the only crocs there.
Tamar bought your book, and she’s showing everyone your autograph.
She’s just sorry she missed the end of your final lecture. She had to be at a meeting in Tel Aviv at 7:00 p.m., so she left in the middle, right after she asked you a question and you said you would talk about it later.
She’ll be thrilled with the link about comment spam. She does lots of technical stuff on her other blog, but we don’t have to work so hard because we have Akismet and Spam Karma.