Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Mac Tip: Where did I read that? Paid Members Public
One of the nice things about shifting from a corporate employee to freelance consultant-for-hire type, is completely defining my own work style and tools. For example, I just figured out how to solve the “where did I read that?” issue that often plagues me when blogging. For example, while writing
Calling a blog a blog Paid Members Public
Andy Boyle [http://www.andymboyle.com/2012/04/02/stop-calling-it-a-blog-please/] : > It’s time to stop bifurcating your content as blogs and news because they run on separate systems. It is all content, so why not call it that? Even if you have outside people writing posts on your website
The danger of understanding social media through the lens of old media Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/03/6042197068_41afe7f813_b.jpg] Back when I started training journalists in blogging (which must be close on seven years ago now…) I noted a tendency for them to try and understand blogging in terms of concepts they already knew.
Twitter buys Posterous: Why? Paid Members Public
In a surprise move, Twitter have acquired blogging site Posterous [http://blog.twitter.com/2012/03/welcoming-posterous-team-to-flock.html]. The question of course, is: “why?” The information from the companies is pretty vague [http://blog.posterous.com/big-news]. Guess 1: (the view held by my Twitter community) It’s a pure
Goodbye MacBook, hello iPad Paid Members Public
[](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/Photo 5 Mar 2012 23:02.jpg)Well, if I wanted a good opportunity to test out the iPad as a primary work
Morning Coffee Reading: 5th March 2012 Paid Members Public
Time to stop hogging these great links in my browser tabs and share them with the world: * 50 Twitter conversations that journalism students might like [http://www.onlineuniversities.com/blog/2012/03/50-terrific-twitter-chats-for-journalism-students/] – basically a list of useful hashtags. * Good reading on the eBook disruption over the last year [http:
Technorati Interviews Typepad. Hello, 2005... Paid Members Public
It’s like 2005’s blogging world came back… (Snark aside, it’s interesting that both are still around, despite social media’s relentless neophillia, and that Jeff Reine [http://jeffreine.typepad.com/] has some interesting things to say. Watch part two [http://everything.typepad.com/blog/2012/02/typepad-gm-jeff-reine-talks-social-media-with-technorati.
Bloggers look younger every year Paid Members Public
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2012/01/6a00d8341c2f0953ef016300259db3970d-700wi-2308.html] I’m pretty sure that this blogger t-shirt for kids is not what we were all dreaming of a decade ago in the early days of blogging. Still, goes some way to showing just how powerful fashion bloggers have
