The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging
Oh, hello built-in Tweet embedding: [](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/12/tweetembed.png) Since Twitter retired its Blackbird Pie embedding function, I’ve been looking for
blog strategy
Excellent post from Stephanie Booth about being realistic about what blogging can bring you [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2011/12/03/measuring-a-blogs-success-visitors-and-comments-dont-cut-it/] : > * blogging is a long-term strategy: it will take many months or even years for you to see what benefits it’s actually bringing you * don’t obsess
adam tinworth
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2011/11/Fireworks-over-Blackheath.jpg] A decade ago, almost exactly, I pressed publish on my very first ever blog post, entitled “Falling Towards 30 [http://adders.livejournal.com/324.html]“, and sat in quiet amazement in my study in Lewisham. I’d
Blogging
Experimenting with new metadata from Facebook and Google.
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Sullivan] and his blog, The Dish [http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/], have been a huge influence on me throughout my time as a blogger (closing in on ten years, unbelievably). Big Think have an extensive video interview [http://bigthink.com/andrewsullivan#!video_idea_
Blogging
OK. I’m irritated now. Perhaps it was inevitable that the media response to the launch of Huffington Post UK [http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/] today would be dominated by the fact that the majority of the content contributors don’t get paid [http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2011/
Blogging
Tracey Ullman, of all people, perfectly catches the media dynamic of our age [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracey-ullman/arianna-and-me_b_889612.html?ir=UK] in (inevitably) HuffPo UK: > When King George V died, his time of death was withheld so that theThe Times could break the news rather than
archiving
An interesting debate has popped up about the permanence (or lack of it) of the conversations happening in blogs. Gina Trapani kicked it off [http://smarterware.org/8026/why-not-tumblr] with a post about why she’s not following the neophile herd onto Tumblr [http://www.steverubel.me/post/6583713687/tumblr-is-the-next-great-social-network]
Blogging
Tom Jones [http://www.llanevandiary.blogspot.com/] tells the story of a farmer who blogged his way away from the precipice of madness: > It was my sister, ensconced within her warm east London office, who suggested I turn a roughly cobbled together email into a blog. Blogs, she informed
BBC
I’ve been watching the revamp of the BBC’s blogs [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/05/our_next_step_in_news_blogging.html] with a mix of horror and awe. It feels as if they’ve decided to go back and make all the mistakes that
Blogging
Iain Dale thinks he’s riding to the rescue of British political blogging [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/13/political-blogging-iain-dale-and-friends] : > I think the way forward for mass audience blogs is with group blogs. To that effect in a few weeks I am launching a new multi-authored
Andrew Sullivan
Interesting graph from Andrew Sullivan as part of a post on journalism 2.0 [http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/digital-dollars.html]: [](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2011/