Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Ghost: funded Paid 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?
When SEOs get desperate Paid 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
How to blog in three points Paid 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,
A decade of One Man & His Blog Paid 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
Once upon a blog... Paid 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
Post 1st: First Post Paid 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
Matt Mullenweg on the third age of WordPress Paid 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
I remember... Paid 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…