blog platforms
Backed: Typed, a new blogging platform
Another new blog platform launches with a crowd-funding campaign.
Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging
How blogging became today's new journalism
Ben Smith, Buzzfeed’s editor in chief [http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/this-is-my-blog]: > Indeed, the strongest new news outlets and the most nimble elements of the old ones have also co-opted and professionalized the tools and ethos of bloggers — fast, direct publishing; an informal voice; a commitment to transparency.
Andrew Sullivan
The Post-Blogging age
Chris Cillizza, commenting on the reaction to Andrew Sullivan’s departure from blogging [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/01/andrew-sullivan-quits-blogging.html] : > But, again, a blog isn’t any one thing. For me, the idea of a blog — or blogging — that works is reported analysis told through a variety
Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan's Dish finally empties
Disconcerting news this evening. Andrew Sullivan is quitting blogging [http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2015/01/28/a-note-to-my-readers/]: > The second is that I am saturated in digital life and I want to return to the actual world again. I’m a human being before I am a writer; and a
Blogging
One Man & His Medium Blog
I probably don’t need more places to write – but I’ve decided to give Medium a go, for a little while at least. My first post is up, exploring the brief bout of Blogger’s Block [https://medium.com/@adders/bloggers-block-1ff21eed5c1a] I just went through. [Adam Tinworth](https://medium.
Blogging
Medium is a long-form social message
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/12/welcome-to-medium.jpg] Simon Owens has written a really nice piece exploring what Medium is trying to do [http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2014/12/how-medium-is-trying-to-bring-back-the-web-we-lost/?utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pbs%2Fmediashift-blog+%28mediashift-blog%29&utm_medium=feed&utm_
Blogging
Let's try this again
Well, hello, blog. I’m sorry I’ve been neglecting you. I’ve been terribly busy, you see. We’re right in term time at City University, which always keeps me busy – but added to that, I’ve recently landed the biggest contract I’ve had since I went into
Blogging is dead #4
Lockhart Steele remembers the fun: I sat on the roof of my apartment building last week with my old friend Jonny Porkpie, talking to him about this idea I had to relaunch my personal blog. Jonny, thinking it over, didn’t encourage or discourage me. Instead, he asked, “Should I
Blogging is dead #3
Fred Wilson [http://avc.com/2014/08/the-personal-blog/]: > There is something about the personal blog, yourname.com, where you control everything and get to do whatever the hell pleases you. There is something about linking to one of those blogs and then saying something. It’s like having a
Blogging is dead #2
Elizabeth Spiers returns to blogging [http://www.elizabethspiers.com/here-i-go-again-on-my-own/]: > In the days before comments on blogs, you could generally have a thoughtful conversation online without everything degenerating into madness and chaos simply because responding to a post required that you wrote a post on your own blog and
Blogging
Blogging is dead #1
Brent Simmons [http://inessential.com/2014/08/27/waffle_on_social_media]: > My blog’s older than Twitter and Facebook, and it will outlive them. It has seen Flickr explode and then fade. It’s seen Google Wave and Google Reader come and go, and it’ll still be
attention
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings on attention and journalism
Here’s a fascinating interview with Maria Popova [http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/maria-popova/8840-maria-popova-on-information-in-the-digital-age] , curator of the truly excellent Brain Pickings [http://www.brainpickings.org] blog. Some choice highlights: > I can’t speak for others, but I’ve found in myself a tendency to retreat deeper and deeper into