Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
The Doom of Niche Magazines? Paid Members Public
The relationship between online and paper publishing is evolving at an incredible rate. In the last fortnight alone, we’ve seen The Guardian announce that stories will hit the website before the paper [http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1795194,00.html] (provoking plenty of ‘me too’ announcements
Vox-up: the good and the bad Paid Members Public
Good news and bad on Vox [http://www.vox.com], which is Six Apart [http://www.sixapart.com]‘s new blogging platform from talking to friends and family rather than publishing to the world. I was kindly provided with an invite to Vox’s starter level, which allows you to
Exciting Development (for a publishing geek) Paid Members Public
Ooh! Ooh! I just got an access code for Google Analytics [http://analytics.google.com]. Now I can really analyse where my readers are coming from and what they’re reading. Yes, I am a publishing geek. Now all I need is a Vox [http://www.vox.com] pre-release invite…
Mobile Blogging Paid Members Public
This is an impromptu test of Kablog, a blog client for my mobile phone. I’m sat in the car, waiting for mum to return from her doctor’s appointment. The photo opportunities are a touch lacking, so I’ve turned to writing instead. Update: Hmmm. Not sure I’m
Another Step Towards Profitable Blogs? Paid Members Public
As someone who’d love to quit journalism for full time blogging, this [http://www.micropersuasion.com/2005/11/google_your_lon.html] made me go “hmmm…”
Beth gets attention, too Paid Members Public
I wasn’t the only one to get attention, it seems: bethlet.net: Blog [http://web.archive.org/web/20061207001847/http://bethlet.net/catacombs/000758.html] : > Second, everyone pick up a copy of the USA Today tomorrow. I was interviewed by Mark Memmott today about the bombings and how
...and a Beginning Paid Members Public
Yesterday, I rather cryptically mentioned that I wouldn’t be writing about property and architecture on this blog anymore. To understand why, we need to take a step backwards. During the day, I’m the features editor of Estates Gazette [http://www.estatesgazettegroup.com/], a weekly magazine covering the commercial
Calling a blog a blog Paid Members Public
Tom Coates has posted an essay based on a speech he gave at a recent Six Apart event. It’s entitled The Horseless Carriage…: This is a slightly rewritten and polished up version of a talk I gave to a Six Apart event (cf. On being on the panel at
