Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
London Linkage Paid Members Public
Who needs a London multi-author blog, anyway? With so many good London bloggers out there, you can pass a happy half hour catching up on local experiences, and you get the variety of different blog designs, too! To facilitate this process, gentle reader, I’ve started linking to interesting London
Pro Bonner Paid Members Public
Sean Bonner sums up his position [http://www.seanbonner.com/blog/archives/000630.php] on the London MetBlog [http://london.metblogs.com/] issue. Personally, I think the blog has only one real problem: some very weak writing mixed in with some very good writing. That’s an aesthetic judgement, though,
The way to an edited RPG review blog? Paid Members Public
> How do we provide a common location where trusted writers can find an audience, and readers can find a source of trustworthy writers? Aggregation. Specifically, moderated aggregation. There clearly needs to be editorial control, otherwise the screeching howler monkeys just hurl their faeces down the aggregated feed instead of
One Year Ago Today Paid Members Public
It’s been one year since I kicked off this blog. In that time, it’s changed hosts, URL and blogging system. I’ve gone through several different visions of what it should be and may different schemes for giving it a focus. I’ve given up on all of
Credit where credit's due Paid Members Public
Interesting entry in the blog: Anders Jacobsen’s blog: Journalist = bad blogger? [http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2003/08/26/journalist_bad_blogger.html] In essence, the blogger submitted some information to a journalist, but was uncredited in the article that was published. He asks the question: >
A journalist's advice for bloggers (well, in a way) Paid Members Public
Tom Coates of plasticbag.org [http://www.plasticbag.org/] has dug up an old piece of journalism [http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2003/07/keith_waterhouse_on_weblogs_redux.shtml] by Keith Waterhouse telling people how to write opinion columns in newspapers. It’s amazing how much of it can
BBC talks blogging Paid Members Public
The BBC gives a simple but fairly broad update on the blogging scene in an article published yesterday. BBC NEWS | Technology | A blog for everyone [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3078541.stm] Interesting how the adoption of blog technology by AOL seems to be perceived as the
Seminar Report: political blogging at the Houses of Parliament Paid Members Public
The crowd gathered at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the Great Committee Room were exactly as one would expect: a smattering of suits, a good measure of geeky types, a fair few trendy new media types and a few journalists staring intently at the crowd and
