Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
If you're using Internet Explorer… Paid Members Public
Brian has kindly pointed out that my blog is somewhat screwed in IE7 [http://www.brianmicklethwait.com/index.php/weblog/one_man_and_his_very_thin_blog/] . As I’m in Suffolk and surrounded by Macs, I have no way of knowing if the design changes I’ve just implemented
Calling A Blog A Blog Paid Members Public
Alex Singleton attempts to explain feeds in RSS – why and how on Samizdata.net [http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/02/rss_why_and_how.html]. Brave soul. For some reason, the two biggest ideas I struggle to communicate to journalists who start blogging are what RSS feeds are,
Journalists who blog about Journalism Paid Members Public
noodlepie: British journalism blogs [http://www.noodlepie.com/2007/02/british_journal.html] > I put together a UK Journalists’ blogroll for the resuscitated Press Gazette. These are journalists based in Britain blogging predominantly about journalism. Clearly trade journalists only count if they write about journalism for a living… 🙂 Ah,
Yet Another Video Test Paid Members Public
Based on a suggestion from Neil MacLean [http://www.thetravelprblog.com/], here the same video on iFilm:
The New Text Paid Members Public
This is just fabulous: I first posted it over on Vox [http://adam.vox.com/library/post/this-is-what-we-do.html] last Friday after spotting it on Stephanie’s blog [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2007/02/02/web-20-the-machine-is-using-us/] , and fully intended to post about it here over the weekend. And then got
Wannabe Spacemen and Dying Birds Paid Members Public
A couple of highlights from the day job. At the tail end of last week, New Scientist launched a competition to allow one lucky person to win a trip to space [http://www.winatriptospace.co.uk]. Why does this involve me? Well, the entry mechanism is, in fact, built around
Prove that Bloggers Aren't Sad and Lonely: Win Prizes Paid Members Public
The Blogging Journalist: Agora Vox’s ‘The Bloggers Are-Not-Lonely Outcasts Contest’ [http://www.thebloggingjournalist.com/2007/02/agora_voxs_the_.html] > Academic Gregory D. Morrow at Agora Vox, which claims to be “The first online newspaper in Europe written by citizens,” is holding a “The Bloggers-Are-Not-Lonely-Outcasts Contest [http://www.
Academic Jumps On Blog Bandwagon. Misses. Paid Members Public
Ah, you know when things are becoming important when academics start producing half-baked reports on the subject. For instance [http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070130/entertainment/lonely_bloggers]: > …Michael Keren, who has written “Blogosphere: The New Political Arena,” suggests individuals who bare their souls in blogs are
