Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Why blogging still matters post-Facebook and Google Reader Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/conference-bloggers-working.jpg] Rogers Cadenhead on the news that Google Reader’s death was the nail in the coffin [http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3721/seth-finklestein-kills-his-blog] for Seth Finkelstein’s blog: > Finkelstein’s a much-needed voice in tech because
Blog recommendations: narrative places and fabulous food Paid Members Public
A couple of blog recommendations for you, to drop into whatever you’re using to replace Google Reader… Adam’s Apples Adam Scott is the creative director of FreeState and a master of brand-related storytelling. Remember my liveblogging from the Zeitgeist Project in Berlin [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/
Rekindling the RSS fire? Paid Members Public
A quick addendum to last night’s post – a quick cut of the analytics data from my blog shows Feedly [http://cloud.feedly.com/] and the Old Reader [http://theoldreader.com] emerging as growing referrers over the last couple of weeks. I am really enjoying seeing the range of readers
Make mine Markdown Paid Members Public
Here’s the bonus element I’m bringing to my participation in the Back to Blogging challenge [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/06/back-to-blogging.html]. As well as posting once a day, I’m going to be writing all my posts in Markdown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown]
Back to Back to Blogging Paid Members Public
Posting has been too patchy for too long around here. To give myself a kick in the proverbials for the next 10 days, I’ve joined the third iteration of the Back to Blogging [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2013/06/21/third-back-to-blogging-challenge/] challenge. It kicks off tomorrow, and there’s
Four hours to back Ghost... Paid Members Public
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/ghosted.jpg] Just a quick reminder: the Kickstarter to launch Ghost [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform], a new blogging platform (see posts passim [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&tag=ghost&
Blog will eat itself (or the danger of big numbers) Paid Members Public
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/berlin-desk.jpg] There are many rewards to blogging, but it’s easy to get distracted by the easy one. Big numbers are a big distraction. My post on citizen journalism [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/05/citizen-journalism-bunkum.html]
Rethinking Conference Content Capture - tomorrow's experiment Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/Drawnalism_The_print_Industry-Problem.jpg] Tomorrow, I’m trying a New Thing. This New Thing will involve Matt Buck of Drawnalism [http://www.drawnalism.com] and myself working together to capture content from a conference. I do the words,
