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The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
One big secret of journalism change management Paid Members Public
Martin Couzins on modelling behaviour [http://itsdevelopmental.com/2012/modelling-behavior/]: > If you are the one who is trying to encourage others to try something out then a good place to start is to model the behavior ie actually use the tools and techniques you are helping others to adopt.
Messages about Medium, an Obvious new publishing tool Paid Members Public
Well, look at that. Another web tool to reinvent social publishing that we hoi polloi can’t use yet. The Medium might to be the message this time – the users given access to the Medium are. Anil Dash made some good points earlier that this “private quasi-public beta” is actually
Social media isn't failing - the mainstream is just fickle Paid Members Public
Richard Stacy on predictions that social media is failing [http://richardstacy.com/2012/08/14/social-media-is-failing-so-lets-forget-it/] (woe! woe! woe!): > Is it a failure of social media, or is it a failure of marketing to adapt itself to work within social media. In my view it is the later. As
One Man & His Commonplace Blog Paid Members Public
Mr Whatley on RSS and commonplace books [http://whatleydude.com/2012/08/commonplace-books/]: > However, I prefer reading everything at random. It’s a habit I’ve kept for a long time but it’s something that’s recently been re-enforced by learning about the origins of the commonplace book,
A quick blog history lesson for tech bloggers Paid Members Public
Stephen Hackett of 512 Pixels linked to Marcelo Somer’s post about linkblogging [http://behindcompanies.com/2012/08/the-linkblog-cancer/]: > So what’s going on? Slow news cycle in the summer? Maybe. But the link post is much more to blame. It was pioneered by John Gruber back in 04,
Are Infographics next on Google's anti-SEO hit list? Paid Members Public
There’s a really great and interesting interview with Matt Cutts, who heads Google’s web spam team [http://www.stonetemple.com/matt-cutts-and-eric-talk-about-what-makes-a-quality-site/] , on the Stone Temple Consulting site. The whole thing is worth a read, but the discussion of infographics is particularly of note: > In principle, there’s
WordPress updates and integrates with Facebook Paid Members Public
*A couple of cool WordPress things have happened in the last couple of days…*** ****WordPress hits 3.4** Some lovely little touches [in this WordPress release](http://wordpress.org/news/
TEDxBrighton: new site, new theme Paid Members Public
[](https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/06/TEDxBrighton-site.png) One of the most satisfying aspects of my new, freelance working life is that I can give
