The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging
My job pretty much comes down to looking at all the new, shiny stuff on the internet, and figuring out how we can use it to garner traffic (or, more often, the right traffic), and then use that to make some money. In my experience, new social media tends to
Blogging
The observant might have noticed the arrival of the new, official, Tweet button [http://twitter.com/goodies/tweetbutton] and a more compact Facebook Like button on this here blog a few days ago. I tend to use OM&HB as a testing ground for things we could roll out
Blogging
Judith Townend [http://posterous.com/people/4wjLiFjs3sWt], she who has given up life at journalism.co.uk for PhDing, is running a survey around media law and online publishers/bloggers [http://fromtheonline.com/2010/08/20/whats-a-journalist-and-do-they-understand-law/] . Help academia flourish by filling it out [https://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?hl=
blog platforms
I love this idea of how blog platforms could work so much better [http://colecamplese.typepad.com/my_blog/2010/08/dashboards.html] by getting rid of the “back end for posting, front end for reading” interface model that’s dominated for the last decade. This visualisation makes the point
Blogging
One Journalist and His Blog: [http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/aug/03/forbes-social-media] > The leading business publication [Forbes](http://www.forbes.com "Forbes") is set to go live with a “major upgrade” of its social media later today, Business Insider saying every reporter will
apps
Back in 2010, it had a long way to go…
Blogging
This is long, but well worth sitting through to catch up with the ideas and concepts that have driven the success of blogging as a medium over the last decade. Don’t worry about the software stuff at the beginning – it rapidly moves beyond that.
blackheath
I am becoming one of those middle-aged guys who yells at the radio. I passed this terrible threshold of ageing yesterday, as I relaxed in the bath. I’m normally a shower guy, but once in a while I treat myself to a soak. And it’s quite a treat.
Blogging
For the doubters, I am still using the iPad for my blogging: [](https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/06/243B71FF-0AE2-40BE-A54E-2B993BCAD70Biphone_photo.jpg) And I’m just about getting the
Blogging
Time to get serious with my iPad experiments this week, I think. I’m going to try to do all my blogging from the iPad. I’ll try to tally my successes and failures as I go. – Posted using BlogPress from my iPadLocation:[Procter St,Camden Town,United Kingdom](http:
blogger
Google is adding Blogger (amongst other things) to Google Apps [http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-google-applications-coming-for.html] . That’s going to be a significant sea change for corporate blogging.
blog platforms
One of the “joys” of living in the social media world is those days that you wake up, and discover your e-mail in-box crammed with something – comments on one of your posts, Twitter follows or, as happened this morning, a metric ton of new followers on Typepad [http://www.typepad.
