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The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.

Why you should blog, according to a VC Members Public

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

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Where blogging went bad Members Public

“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

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Still blogging, 14 years later Members Public

It’s my blog anniversary (blogiversary?) and today, this blog is… Yes, fourteen years old. Terrifying. 14 years since I published this drivel [https://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2003/03/and_so_it_begin.html]. I’m one of the longest-running bloggers I know of now, just through sheer bloody

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Blogosphere mag launching blogger awards Members Public

The magazine for bloggers has launched some awards - for blogger. Of course.

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Blogger flees Pakistan "fearing for his life" Members Public

In some parts of the world, blogging is still very much a revolutionary activity [http://indianexpress.com/article/world/second-missing-pakistani-blogger-found-leaves-country-fearing-for-life-family-4497420/] : > Pakistani blogger Aasim Saeed who went missing earlier this month has been found but has quickly left the country fearing for his life, his family said on Sunday. Saeed’

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15 years as a blogger Members Public

I may not be a journalist [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2016/11/journalism-social-media-arbitration.html] , thanks to the verdict of sites I’ve spent the best part of a decade advocating that journalists use, but I am most certainly a blogger. Today marks the 15th anniversary of my very first

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Death of a (war)blogger Members Public

Noted in passing: the death of early bloggers (and one of the early warbloggers [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warblog], post 9/11), Steven DenBeste [http://brickmuppet.mee.nu/steven_denbeste_1952-2016]. His old blog, USSClueless, is available as an archive [https://erbosoft.com/ussclueless/]. Update: Perry de Havilland pays

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A blogger defines journalism Members Public

Dave Winer [http://scripting.com/2016/10/25/journalismInThisElectionSeason.html] : > You can look at journalism as a process that yields a result. It begins with an interest or a question. Are young blacks voting for Hillary? Begin with interviews, find young blacks, ask them. Talk to a few pollsters

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