The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging
I don’t always practice what I preach. Yesterday’s post [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/10/the_skill_of_short_sharp_blogging.html] , which mentioned not keeping drafts in your blog platform? I’m guilty. Below is the second oldest draft I have (of eleven in total), in
Blogging
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/10/673d7fdc236b11e2b2f422000a1e9dcf_7.jpg] Antony Mayfield picked up Steph’s post – and my follow-up – about bringing back the blog [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2012/10/29/10-day-back-to-blogging-challenge/] – and keeping it short [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2012/10/the_back_
Blogging
Steph [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2012/10/29/10-day-back-to-blogging-challenge/] : > For the next ten days, starting tomorrow (Tuesday), I’m going to write a post a day. I’ll keep it short: blogging used to be quick and dirty, and somewhere between the arrival of Facebook and Twitter, posts have
Blogging
An open letter to Superman [http://www.bigfashionista.co.uk/2012/10/an-open-letter-to-superman.html]: > Firstly, let’s talk money. I assume you are being paid at The Daily Planet? You are? Well being a blogger is slightly different. As a blogger, you are expected to eat your “raised profile”
bloggers
Tomorrow, newspaper journalism loses another icon. Clark Kent, well-known reporter on that famous Metropolis organ The Daily Planetquits, to go into online journalism [http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/2012/10/22/clark-kent-superman-comic-book-series/1648921/] . That’s right, Superman is getting out of print journalism, and he’s not the only
Blogging
Charlie Peverett, iCrossing Companies that blog have 434% more indexed pages – and more indexed pages get more leads – or so says the slides that opens Charlie from iCrossing’s presentation at the Brighton Digital Marketing Festival. He’s going to make the case for banning the blog – or some of
Blogging
Martin Couzins on modelling behaviour [http://itsdevelopmental.com/2012/modelling-behavior/]: > If you are the one who is trying to encourage others to try something out then a good place to start is to model the behavior ie actually use the tools and techniques you are helping others to adopt.
Blogging
Well, look at that. Another web tool to reinvent social publishing that we hoi polloi can’t use yet. The Medium might to be the message this time – the users given access to the Medium are. Anil Dash made some good points earlier that this “private quasi-public beta” is actually
Blogging
Richard Stacy on predictions that social media is failing [http://richardstacy.com/2012/08/14/social-media-is-failing-so-lets-forget-it/] (woe! woe! woe!): > Is it a failure of social media, or is it a failure of marketing to adapt itself to work within social media. In my view it is the later. As
aggregation
Mr Whatley on RSS and commonplace books [http://whatleydude.com/2012/08/commonplace-books/]: > However, I prefer reading everything at random. It’s a habit I’ve kept for a long time but it’s something that’s recently been re-enforced by learning about the origins of the commonplace book,
Blogging
Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels linked to Marcelo Somer’s post about linkblogging [http://behindcompanies.com/2012/08/the-linkblog-cancer/]: > So what’s going on? Slow news cycle in the summer? Maybe. But the link post is much more to blame. It was pioneered by John Gruber back in 04,
backlinks
There’s a really great and interesting interview with Matt Cutts, who heads Google’s web spam team [http://www.stonetemple.com/matt-cutts-and-eric-talk-about-what-makes-a-quality-site/] , on the Stone Temple Consulting site. The whole thing is worth a read, but the discussion of infographics is particularly of note: > In principle, there’s