The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging
I’ve been tweeting since late 2006, and I’m pretty happy with how Twitter fits into my overall publishing stream. It’s an important part of it, as a quick glance at my Activity Stream [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/everywhere/] will demonstrate, but it’s not the be-all-and-end-all of
blogger
John Naughton, writing in The Observer [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/13/blogging-john-naughton-comment] on the 10th anniversary of Blogger [https://www.blogger.com/start]: > The long-term significance of Blogging is that it reverses a trend that had become increasingly worrying in an era dominated by mass
blog platforms
A couple of interesting posts have cropped up since I posted about the WordPress problems [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2009/09/the_wordpress_attack_competition_and_blo.html] over the weekend. Kevin Anderson has followed up, looking at the security risks [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/sep/
Automattic
John Gruber mused [http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/05/wordpress-attack] : > I have to wonder when WordPress users will start switching to some other platform. There’s a reason it’s not happening. They can’t. There are no good alternatives for a less technical user who wants to
BBC
Journalists really need to read this post by Robin [http://www.cybersoc.com/2009/09/bbcs-robert-peston-the-blog-is-at-the-core-of-everything-i-do.html] , where he highlights the speech the BBC’s Robert Peston [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/] gave where he explains how central blogging is to his work.
Blogging
Every now and again I take a little time to tidy up the ever-growing archives of this blog. Tidy up the appearance, check for link rot, correct years-old spelling mistakes, add tags to posts published before Movable Type had a tagging system, that sort of thing… I’ve just done
admin
From this post onwards, I’ve replaced the commenting system on this blog with the [Disqus Comments](http://disqus.com/comments/) system. Disqus is one of the breed of external comment providers that have become popular in the last year or so, that include Automattic’s [Intense Debate](http://intensedebate.
beat blogs
Steve Yelvington has posted an absolute must-read entry on his blog, where he breaks down the two major types of visitors and the ways you should serve them [http://www.yelvington.com/a-tale-of-two-audiences]: > The beat blog focuses on the small circle, offering speed, depth and conversation among the reporter
Blogging
This video has been making the rounds of the company this morning: The pleasing thing is that it wasn’t me that started it, as it would have been 6 months ago. The times, they are a’changing…
baby killer
Sample Tweets from people I follow in the last couple of hours that I found of use @lawtweets OUT-LAW: Government resists bringing US-style class actions to English courts http://bit.ly/95Of1 @weirdnews Dead shark left in Miami street after failed sale (AP) http://is.gd/1Hi4A @London_Law_Firm
Blogging
An e-mail arrives from one of my stable of bloggers: > Hi Adam, You will be pleased to hear that I am receiving my first back-hander for blogging. As I posted a link to a review about a new book called “[Redacted]“, which grew out of a blog about the
Blogging
Mr Scoble gives us an insight into the future relationship between the real time web and blogging [http://scobleizer.com/2009/06/28/real-time-systems-hurting-long-term-knowledge/] : > One thing is that knowledge is suffering over there. See, here, it is easy to find old blogs. Just go to Google and search. What
