Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Of HuffPos, blogs and journalists, of bloggers and kings Paid Members Public
Tracey Ullman, of all people, perfectly catches the media dynamic of our age [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tracey-ullman/arianna-and-me_b_889612.html?ir=UK] in (inevitably) HuffPo UK: > When King George V died, his time of death was withheld so that theThe Times could break the news rather than
Should your blog content fade like tears in rain? Paid Members Public
An interesting debate has popped up about the permanence (or lack of it) of the conversations happening in blogs. Gina Trapani kicked it off [http://smarterware.org/8026/why-not-tumblr] with a post about why she’s not following the neophile herd onto Tumblr [http://www.steverubel.me/post/6583713687/tumblr-is-the-next-great-social-network]
Blogging for sanity's sake Paid Members Public
Tom Jones [http://www.llanevandiary.blogspot.com/] tells the story of a farmer who blogged his way away from the precipice of madness: > It was my sister, ensconced within her warm east London office, who suggested I turn a roughly cobbled together email into a blog. Blogs, she informed
The Dale Plan for "rescuing" political blogging Paid Members Public
Iain Dale thinks he’s riding to the rescue of British political blogging [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/13/political-blogging-iain-dale-and-friends] : > I think the way forward for mass audience blogs is with group blogs. To that effect in a few weeks I am launching a new multi-authored
The power of a single blog Paid Members Public
Interesting graph from Andrew Sullivan as part of a post on journalism 2.0 [http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2011/05/digital-dollars.html]: [](http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2011/
Blogging: a dance of conversation Paid Members Public
Tim Carmody guest-blogging on Kottke [http://kottke.org/11/05/three-step-dance]: > These are also the elements that help establish bloggers’ identity as readers in conversation with other readers: I have seen something that I feel strongly enough to think and write about, and what would make me happiest is
An aside on blog platforms Paid Members Public
I’m still pondering where next, technology-wise, for this blog. I’ve been watching the conversation around static [http://inessential.com/2011/03/16/a_plea_for_baked_weblogs] versus dynamic rendering [http://inessential.com/2011/04/04/more_again_again_on_the_static_weblogs_t] of pages that’s
The BBC's revamped blogs are a road crash Paid Members Public
I’ve been watching the revamp of the BBC’s blogs [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/05/our_next_step_in_news_blogging.html] with a mix of horror and awe. It feels as if they’ve decided to go back and make all the mistakes that