The art and craft of the personal blog ā and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
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An interesting (and critical) analysis of the shortcomings of the anecdote-based argument style used by Clay Shirky [http://whimsley.typepad.com/whimsley/2010/04/wikibollocks-the-shirky-rules.html] and others: > But stories and analogies should be a starting point for thought, and not its terminus. They should be the spark that
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I am a perpetual floating voter. I have political opinions, but no strong party loyalty ā and Iāve voted for all the main parties and some minority ones in the elections Iāve participated in over the last couple of decades. Thereās a simple reason for this: I believe
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Ah, the social media world is full of chit-chat after the felling of a LabourĀ parliamentaryĀ candidate [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/7571078/General-Election-2010-Labour-candidate-sacked-over-Twitter-rants.html] by his ownĀ brazenĀ stupidity and contempt for the electorate Twitter. But, here in sunny Sutton, weāve been having a bit of
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[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/04/ec1004-550x485.jpg] *(Gaping Void, of course. You can [buy prints here ](http://www.gapingvoidgallery.com/product_info.php?products_id=1554))***Once of the worse qualities of social media is its tendency to promote an echo chamber effect. With
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Alison Gow's words of wisdom on the difference between journalism and blogging.
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Some heavyweight stuff thatās been sitting in my tabs over the holiday weekend: - [A last act of insanity by delusional content companies](http://charman-anderson.com/2010/04/02/ipad-app-pricing-a-last-act-of-insanity-by-delusional-content-companies/) ā Kevin Anderson, who seems to have been liberated to write by taking voluntary redundancy from [The Guardian](http://www.
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Iāve been doing a lot of thinking about the evolution of blogging, its interaction with social networking, and the role of content-based community on the web in recent weeks. These three posts really chimed with some of my conclusions: - Stephanie takes on[ two evolutions of blogging she really
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ā¦turning something you love as a hobby into your job, is that sometimes it leaves you no time to do the thing you love. And the problem with that, is you can start to lose your passion, to forget why you did this in the first place.Note to self:
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Letās start with something thatās as much a public information message for the blogosphere as a link: [Why Blog and Comment Spam isnāt Going Away ](http://www.yelvington.com/content/why-blog-and-comment-spam-isnt-going-away) Onwards to linkorama:- [News has become a social experience](http://gigaom.com/2010/03/01/
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This is the 2,568th post on this blog. It also marks seven years since *One Man & His Blog*[began](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2003/03/and_so_it_begin.html). Strangely, I suspect it began much the same way this is being written now ā sat at my
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[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2010/02/IMG_2298.jpg] Once more unto the feed reader, dear friends: - [The Rise of Social Algorithms](http://broadstuff.com/archives/2100-The-real-Buzz-is-in-the-Rise-of-Social-Algorithms.html): Referrerals from social networks are beginning to eclipse those from Gooogle. Is this the end of
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Stuff Iāve had in tabs for ages: - [A lesson in statistics for journalists](http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php?f=1271) ā linked for truth - [Stop Selling Scarcity](http://www.buzzmachine.com/2010/02/08/stop-selling-scarcity-2/) ā Jeff Jarvis has another pick at the fundemental truth that people in
