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Paranormal Activities may be no more in a couple weeks

EwanDBlogger — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 03:41:55 +0000

It’s been a long time since I’ve regularly posted here on Paranormal Activities, the main reasons for this is I lost the passion and action to keep blogging about the paranormal. I had no shortage of vision for where I wanted to go, but without the passion and action nothing was going to ever get done.

Now it’s that time of year where I need to renew my hosting and I’m disappointed to say that I just can’t afford to renew it, so I’m going to let this incarnation of Paranormal Activities go.

Where to from here, well I’m in the process of moving all posts from WordPress over to good old blogger, minus all the great comments everyone has made, which is a shame, I couldn’t find a way to move comments as well as posts. When that’s done and my hosting runs out, I’m hoping to move the paranormalactivities.net domain over to blogger as well, so Paranormal Activities should still be alive, just not in the form you see now.

If the site goes down in the meantime I will be keeping everyone updated over at My Paranormal Life.

Thanks everyone for the support over the years, maybe one day I’ll get the bug back, but hey, there really isn’t a shortage of great paranormal bloggers out there to keep y’all satisfied.

Sooo… Where have I been?

EwanDBlogger — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:43:06 +0000

So it’s been about several months since my last post here on Paranormal Activities, worst part is I didn’t even give an explanation as to why.

I’d like to say I’ve been out busting ghosts, searching for the elusive Moa and swimming with a fearsome Taniwha, truth is procrastination got the better of me.

Before I knew it 3 weeks turned into 3 months and by that time I just felt guilty, so I ended up avoiding anything that related to blogging, especially my contribution.

I don’t know where I’m going from here with Paranormal Activities, I know there’s got to be a mountain of videos and news from those several months, so I may just try to catch up on it all.

Changes to the Site

EwanDBlogger — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:01:16 +0000

Hey folks, sorry about the down time in posting, it’s been a few weeks since my last real post and that isn’t a good trait in a blog and blogger, just been distracted and a little unmotivated. I’ve been shuffling things around a bit with the site and all and I’ve actually got a schedule for posting that won’t tire me out, should be able to deliver all kinds of interesting paranormal news for y’all every day of the week.

There’s a couple things I should point out in the changes I’ve made with the site. I’ve totally reorganized the category structure and how they are displayed in the navigation bar at the top of the page, it should be a whole lot easier to find what you may be looking for, a lot more organized and clean.

I’ve also added a shop featuring a few things I own, I’ll be adding to it whenever I buy something, but that may be a ways off, I don’t really buy much stuff.

The more substantial changes I’ve made are the News page and I’ve scrapped the old blogroll page in favor of an updated Directory page.

The News page features a few of my favorite sources for odd news, I’ll be adding to it and hopefully others will find it useful. If you’re blogger or webmaster and want your feed added to the News page, just leave a comment on that page asking to be added to it.

The Directory is totally automated, if you’re a blogger or webmaster just head on over to the page, click on Add URL, enter your sites details and it should appear in the directory right away, a lot more convenient I think.

I should be on schedule very soon, if not tonight, so i’ll check y’all then.

Time wasting week in review 2

EwanDBlogger — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 10:17:50 +0000

There’s been quite a slump on the paranormal news front lately, especially decent enough videos. Hopefully with summer on the horizon in the other half of the world the cameras will be out and we’ll see an influx of interesting footage. Other than that I haven’t spent much time online, been soaking up the last days of summer. I have tied up a few loose ends with the design on Paranormal Activities, especially the images in the sidebar that didn’t show in IE, I changed the nav-bars at the top also, looks a little nicer I think and I cleaned up some inconsistencies with fonts and colours throughout the site.

Other than that I’ve wasted the last couple weeks sipping on beers and hanging out friends, now lets see what the all seeing feed reader has on offer…

What the hell am I doing (site update)

EwanDBlogger — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:50:29 +0000

Maybe it’s the heat, but I’m finding it really difficult to find my blogging flow lately, I’m concentrating on to much and as a result I get nothing done. I don’t feel like I’m in the game like I used to be when it comes to the paranormal, news popped up back then and I was right on it, now I’m days late to blog it. I know I’m spreading myself thin, I run other blogs as well which takes up a good amount of time, though they’re in really bad shape compared to Paranormal Activities

I’m just ranting here for my own sake, I should be getting this down on paper, but then again, maybe if I blog it I’ll stick to it.

Original Content:

-Well, I’ve got loads more plane videos, very easy to get online.
-Expose myself on youtube, get your mind out of the gutter, get a vlog going.
-Film local haunts, tell the stories, day time, night vision sucks.
-Living off the land Kiwi Style, Bush Craft videos. Put together a list of topics, mostly wild foods, edit what I’ve got.
-Short movie, write script, gather props.
-Comic strip, get designs on computer, write a middle and an end lol.

Time management and other content

-Paranormal Activities is now my main focus, blog what I’d blog on my other blogs here, when they fit.
-Bulk bookmark timeless news, videos and content for scheduled blogging once a week.
-Blog timely news, videos and content soon as.
-Incorporate my time wasting internet activity into P.A, maybe a weekly post of what I enjoyed online during the week.
-make time for editing, uploading, filming, drawing.

Promotion
I’ll get around to it.

What do you guys want?
-Constant flow of news?
-Constant flow of creepy videos?
-More community features such as contests, reader stories, user submitted news, links?
-More original content from me, I promise it’ll be more interesting than just planes?

You’d think adding a poll to wordpress would be much easier, at this time of the night it ain’t, need to look into it when I’m fresher.

Hmm, was good to get that all out, let me now what y’all think, I’m always up for a good critique.

Paranormal Activities in 2009

EwanDBlogger — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:59:24 +0000

2008 was all about getting Paranormal Activities up and running, but in that process I’ve become a little disjointed, I’m not on top of the paranormal news out there, my posts are pretty infrequent and I feel I’ve become a little out of touch.

It’s now a new year and I’m on a mission to get back to the joys I felt when I first started blogging to My paranormal Life. The joys of finding the latest news, creating content, sharing my art, videos, getting to know those who visit my little space on the web.

Pretty soon I’ll be letting y’all know what I look like, what I sound like and this is actually a very scary thought to me, but with the direction I want head I have to do it. You see to justify my purchase of that pretty expensive camera I’m going the way of youtube, I’m gonna be vlogging my life, making short movies, sharing some of the local haunts, pretty much anything I can think of and hopefully people will find this interesting.

So, have a great 2009 and you’ll see me in a video shortly.

I’m Back!

EwanDBlogger — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:48:35 +0000

It’s been just under a month since I decided to take a break from blogging, it’s been good, not as productive as I would have liked, but it’s been nice taking a step back from the paranormal world. For three weeks I didn’t even look at a paranormal website, headline, anything, it was tough though denying my cravings. I wanted to start blogging again a few days ago but after logging into my feed reader it became apperent that it would take me a few days to go through all the headlines. 25,000 headlines later and I’m ready to bring it.

So lets get the mainpage filled with some fresh posts.

I’m Taking a Break

EwanDBlogger — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:07:43 +0000

I’m Taking a Break from blogging for a few weeks, just need to refresh myself, get creative and complete some of the things I’ve started for this blog and never finished. I’ll still be responding to comments and emails, what I won’t be doing is what takes up the majority of my time and that’s searching for things to blog about, taking a break from that should give me the time to get things done.

Other than that there’s still the Paranormal Activities forums on offer, it hasn’t really taken off, but I see some potential in it and hopefully after my break I’ll have more time for it.

Also if you have a blog/site yourself you can always add it to the blogroll, plenty of room left there.

And as always feel free to contact me about anything, and remember to subscribe to the feed so you’ll know when I’m back.

See y’all in a few weeks, hopefully with a load of original content.

Paranormal Activities Chat

EwanDBlogger — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:34:29 +0000

Those of you who are regulars may have already noticed the gigantic chat box in the sidebar, it comes from a services called Chatroll, I really know nothing about it, except I’m really digging the service.

As well as the widget on this site you can also head over and use it on Chatroll where you’ll be able to see in a nice tidy list all the links and videos that have been posted in the chat window and also the chat archives.

I discovered the service while browsing www.realufos.net and after singing up saw ufoblogger also had a chat thing, both of theirs are very active.

So please be my guest and join Paranormal Activities Chatroll, I don’t even think you have to register.

Paranormal Activities – Fullscreen

Paranormal Activities has a NEW forum

EwanDBlogger — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 10:57:57 +0000

This is one of those recent distractions I was talking about in my previous post, the new integrated forums for Paranormal Activities, if you sign up here or there you’ll be signed up to both sites instantly, your profile info will also be shared across both sites.

I hate to leave the old forums behind, but I created that for My Paranormal Life using a free service, it’ll still be up for all that registered but I’d say I won’t be around there to much anymore. The new forums are much more simpler than traditional forums and it’s got a really nice laid back feel to it, all new posts, recently replied posts are displayed on the home page of the forums which I think is a nice convenient feature.

So if you have the time please give the forums a shot.