The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
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So, how was 2015 for One Man & His Blog? Pretty good, all things considered. I had much less time than usual to devote to the blog, due to a very successful working year, but I still managed a 15% increase on 2014’s traffic. I hope (and have plans)
Blogging
Windows Live Writer is reborn as Open Live Writer [http://www.nevillehobson.com/2015/12/16/open-live-writer-successor-windows-live-writer/] This is great news for anyone on Windows. The late, lamented Windows Live Writer was by far the best blogging app on Windows, and that fact that it’s continuing will make a
Blogging
Today in “things that depress me”: > One of the biggest points being made on Twitter is that bloggers don’t get stuff for free, but are working for their reviews. I wholeheartedly agree. There is nothing wrong with a blogger being compensated for their work through an experience, goods
Blogging
The rise, commercialisation, fall and rebirth of fashion blogging [http://www.refinery29.com/fashion-blogging-mainstream]: > “Because there was a period of time where fashion bloggers became quite monotonous…now we’re seeing individuals come through, but on social media as opposed to a web-based platform,” observes Lau. “It’s almost
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A lesson I learnt from my big blogging mistake…
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So, another new blog platform. For years it felt like we'd narrowed things down to a handful of established blogging platforms, and innovation had slowed to a (relative) trickle. Now, all of a sudden, we have new blog platforms coming think and fast. Most recently there was Ghost
blog platforms
A crowd-funded blog platform enters beta.
Blogging
Slightly terrifying look into life as a toddler social media celebrity [http://www.racked.com/2015/4/28/8490671/london-scout-the-city-blog-instagram]: > Scout the City [http://scoutthecity.com] is touted as fashion’s first “kids’ influencer” blog [http://www.socialyte.co/digital-fashion-influencers/], its heroine a pint-sized social media giant in the
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Moving from Movable Type to WordPress
Blogging
Medium continues to evolve at a fair old clip; * First we had the launch of its more “bloggy” interface to encourage more short form writing [https://medium.com/the-story/a-less-long-more-connected-medium-c345db2d6a56] . * Then they brought writing to the iOS app [https://medium.com/the-story/tell-your-story-anywhere-ef28fedf347], finally: But the most interesting – and possibly
Blogging
I am having a deeply nostalgic day right now. Not only am I provisioning a new blog – just as I used to back in my days as RBI’s blogmeister – but today is a day of note, as this tweet suggests: > 12 years ago today… http://t.co/6pEPQB5AIB—
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[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2015/02/blogger-at-work.jpg] Fascinating read in the wake of Andrew Sullivan’s closure of The Dish [http://time.com/3693638/no-blogs-are-not-dead/], in which Ira Stoll explores the present and future of blogging [http://time.com/3693638/no-blogs-are-not-dead/]: > And while