Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Recency is killing the web - and we'll all lose if that happens Paid Members Public
Our obsession with organising everything around the latest content may be destroying the greatest value the web holds.
Even George RR Martin has left Livejournal Paid Members Public
The last big user of the first platform I used has quit: Livejournal is not what it used to be.
The man who coined the word "blog" has been blogging for 20 years Paid Members Public
Peter Merholtz, who first split "weblog" into "we blog", has been at the blogface for two decades.
Let's kick the Tweetstorm habit Paid Members Public
Why do we give Twitter our most valuable thoughts?
Blogging is dead #6 Paid Members Public
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
Happy 15th Birthday to One Man & His Blog Paid Members Public
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,
Is Medium aiming to be the Facebook of long-form writing? Paid Members Public
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,
