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The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.

Ghost: funded Members Public

That was quick [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform]. 28 days to go… Wonder how much they’ll end up with?

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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When SEOs get desperate Members Public

Like most bloggers of any note, I get regular e-mails asking me to publish guest posts, or text links. I understand the SEO reasons for this, but always decline – politely to the well-thought through ones, and through deletion to the ones where my name, my blog name and a recent

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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How to blog in three points Members Public

Fabulous post from Steph [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2013/03/17/some-thoughts-on-blogging-original-content-linking-engaging/] , encapsulating the essence of blogging: > Blogging is about writing, but also about reading and responding. Links ensure that a blog doesn’t exist in a vacuum. The parallel human activity is responding to comments, reading other bloggers,

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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A decade of One Man & His Blog Members Public

Ten years ago today, the alarmingly brown-haired chap above put finger to keyboard and wrote the words “And so it begins…” And so it did – One Man & His Blog came into being. At first it lived on Blogger and at the URL http://adam.tinworth.name (.name never really

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Once upon a blog... Members Public

[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/01/tell-me-a-tale.jpg] Blogs are narratives. Or, at least, the good ones are. Some are unconciously so, the result of one person naturally expressing the narrative of the ideas they’re exploring in their own lives. Some are very, very

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Post 1st: First Post Members Public

I’ve read again and again over the years, that reading your e-mail as the first task in your working day is the wrong thing to do [http://www.fastcompany.com/3000619/what-successful-people-do-first-hour-their-work-day] . You should dive into a few tasks, do something directly productive first, and then switch back to

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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Matt Mullenweg on the third age of WordPress Members Public

[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/matt-mullenweg.jpg] **Matt Mullenweg, Founder, Automattic, **interviewed by Om Malik, Founder & Senior Writer, GigaOM WordPress powers 17% of the top million sites on the web – and that’s a huge responsibility. Matt Mullenweg wants to democratise publishing – but

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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I remember... Members Public

Hugh [http://www.gapingvoidart.com/blogosphere-p-2780.html], of course. Building up to something – but not quite ready to write it yet…

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
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