Yesterday I hit the streets of Hollywood, WeHo, Los Angeles, Melrose, Beverly Hills and Westwood. Placed more Weed Connection flyers in at least 21 collectives, 7 doctors offices, and 5 head shops… and took some photos and video of Obama infront of Hustler cruisin’ Sunset.
His security was already in position to block the street when I arrived at the last collective on the boulevard. By the time I was ready to get my roll back on they had cut off the side streets, thus trapping my car in the parking lot. Snapped a bowl and chilled until Obama showed up, then snapped some photos with my camera in one hand, and video on my cell phone with the other hand. Random luck.
I’m writing about WordPress vs. Blogger because I just started a new blog, which uses the WordPress/RRP platform, had previously setup a Blogger blog, and think my experience might benefit someone trying to start their own blog.
Blogger and WordPress are the leading free blogging services. If you type “blog” into Google, it is most likely that the number one result will be Google owned Blogger, followed by WordPress. I never really got into my Blogger blog. There are some really nice features, especially when it comes to integrating other Google services like AdSense for monetization and Picassa for photos; however, you can easily embed their widgets in WordPress.
RussellRope.com/BLOG
WordPress is more open source and community driven. I have decided to go with WordPress because it is completely customizable. Most importantly, it was easy for me to download and host on my own server, thus giving me control over the databases and server-side scripting. I think WordPress has been around longer and has more features and plugins.
After getting started on my new blog I saw someone else post a link to their Blogger blog, was almsot tricked into switching back, but after tinkering around with my old blog I realized I just liked the newer and more sleek generic layout, upgraded the layout on my new blog a bit, and could not be more satisfied with the time spent.
Welcome to the official blog of Russell Rope (Productions). RRP Blog is a custom Word Press blog, which was designed and partially developed by Russell Rope. Much deserved credit to the Word Press team as well as the developers of various plug-ins used. Combined with some serious skillz, this uber dynamic blog is a semantic publishing wizard. Russell Rope has maintained several blogs over the years, but this is the best and most content rich. This blog was launched or “relaunched” as an intermediary between Weed Connection and our new and unreleased mainstream digital publication.
