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Let's kick the Tweetstorm habit
Why do we give Twitter our most valuable thoughts?
Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging is dead #6
The once and future Froomkin: Reading copiously is one approach. Even in a flawed press climate, a pretty compelling picture emerges when you connect the dots. I’ll be doing that relentlessly, and with a particular focus on the areas that concern me the most. Among them: National security issues
adam tinworth
Happy 15th Birthday to One Man & His Blog
15 years ago, most likely at his desk at Estates Gazette‘s then Wardour Street offices, a frustrated journalist opened Blogger in his web browser. He came up with a punny name, and started his second ever blog. His first blog, on Livejournal, felt restrictive. It was clearly a semi-closed,
blog platforms
Is Medium aiming to be the Facebook of long-form writing?
Stowe Boyd has some serious questions about the future of Medium [https://medium.com/@stoweboyd/is-medium-following-the-facebook-playbook-6a21b3db6e7d] : > And what about Medium? Are we better off because of Medium’s mechanisms to suggest to us what to read, or would we be better off with thousands of independent curators and publishers,
Blogging
Blogs are digital thought spaces
Om Malik [https://om.co/2018/02/08/blogs-as-though-spaces/]: > When relaxing in the sun this past weekend, I realized that my original blog was my thought space, and that is why it resonated with my community. Among all the blogs I continue to follow — Dave Winer, John Gruber, Bob
Blogging
Building trust in news through transparency
Ipsita Agarwal, writing back in the summer [https://medium.com/@ipsita/trust-in-news-3c9afc15d3a1]: > There is perhaps a concept to be experimented with where a news publisher builds a news literacy project containing explainers of how some of its best reporting was done — how was the information collected, verified, and presented;
Blogging
Maintaining friendships without social networks
Maintaining friendships after Facebook and Twitter [https://jonmitchell.net/blog/how-to-stay-internet-friends-without-facebook-or-twitter] : > Some people are like, “How are you supposed to maintain normal human relationships?” Don’t worry, I tell them. There are way better ways to be internet friends than Facebook and Twitter. In fact, most of them already
affiliate marketing
Mattress review sites are a nightmare of affiliate links and court battles
Fast Company’s David Zax has written a fascinating account of the industry of mattress review sites that have sprung up. They’ve been sustained by the new breed of mattress startups that deliver mattresses-in-a-box to your home for much less than the traditional businesses. It’s clear that many
Blogging
Why is the journalism business so dismissive of Medium's new model? An experiment.
This morning, I’ve written a 2,000 word blog post about journalism and publishing strategy. But, you’ll note, this is the first blog post on here today. What’s going on? Well, Medium recently expanded their partner program [https://blog.medium.com/expanding-the-medium-partner-program-3be09dd146e4], allowing more writers to lock
Blogging
Blog, people
> My Twitter feed is turning into terribly long, competing threads. Blog, people. — Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) July 30, 2017 [https://twitter.com/jeffjarvis/status/891804687783129088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] Amen.
Blogging
Why you should blog, according to a VC
Fred Wilson [http://avc.com/2017/05/writing-and-speaking/]: > But I do believe that writing regularly makes it so much easier to speak publicly in unscripted situations. Writing forces you to work out your views and articulate them clearly and concisely. Then when you are asked a question related to
Blogging
Where blogging went bad
“Bangs” (Muireann Carey-Campbell) asks Oh, Blogging, where art thou? [http://www.bangsandabun.com/2017/03/oh-blogging-art-thou/]: > I always thought of blogging as a way to give voice to the little guy (or gal, or non-gender conforming individual). We had a chance to create our own media, to be the