Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Beat Blogs and Topic Pages Paid Members Public
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
Video: Social Media Revolution Paid Members Public
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…
Blogging Back-Handers Paid Members Public
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
Archiving the Product of the Real Time Web Paid Members Public
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
Devolving Ownership for Better Blogging Paid Members Public
Now, that’s a challenge for existing editorial teams, where the editor is used to being essentially a despotic ruler, with the desk heads as the high priests*. It requires the editor to stop being a director, but move more into a conductor role, where they make sure that the
The Journalism Debate Needs to be More Prosaic Paid Members Public
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2009/06/IMG_0552.jpg] I’ve realised why I’ve not been blogging here much of late. Initially, I thought it was because I was just plain busy – but that’s not true. Busyness has never stopped me before. I
Using Disqus for Blog Comments Paid Members Public
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.