The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging
Andrea Contino was kind enough to include me in his interview series about why people blog [http://www.andrea.co/blog/2014/8/9/whyiblog-intervista-a-adam-tinworth]. I’m honoured to be in the company of people like Euan [http://www.andrea.co/blog/2014/8/2/whyiblog-intervista-a-euan-semple], Robert [http://www.andrea.
Blogging
Nick Crocker: > To know what you think, write it down. Forcing myself to write something down, to structure it, to let it see light is the best way for me to clarify what I actually think about something. It’s from a list of 30 things he’s learned
Blogging
Martin Belam [http://martinbelam.com/2014/hello-world-slight-return/]: > And despite the die-hard afficianados, RSS is no longer a key content distribution channel. Of course, with some amusement, I read this in my RSS reader of choice [http://reederapp.com]. He’s right in that RSS never became a mainstream means
Blogging
So much of the web discussion right now is about distraction and entertainment. I really want this blog to stand for useful and interesting instead.
Blogging
Mary Hamilton [http://maryhamilton.co.uk/2014/05/brief/]: > It’s something I’d like to do more of here – sharing interesting links with a paragraph or two’s analysis. Gah. Why would anyone do that? 🙂 (Other than providing useful, contextualised links for people, which is where blogging started.
31-3-14
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/beach-sunset-3605.html] I just wrote a post for NEXT Berlin [http://nextberlin.eu/2014/03/missing-aircraft-we-need-to-get-serious-about-the-internet-of-things/] which has provoked a little more reaction [https://www.facebook.com/nextconf/posts/10152221294013847?stream_ref=10] than normal. I admit – it’s a more
31-3-14
[http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/assets_c/2014/03/sunrise-over-the-waterside-3567.html] So, here’s a question. Why am I putting myself through the horror of trying to write something substantive for this blog every single day in March? Leaving aside the possibility of an unexplored masochistic streak, the fundamental reason
bloggers
I got an e-mail from Next (the clothes and homewares people, not the conference people) earlier. This is what it looked like: Yes, Next is selling “blogger style” as a look. Is there any other industry where blogging has been so throughly assimilated into the way it operates as fashion?
Blogging
Zeldman [http://www.zeldman.com/2013/12/11/this-is-a-website/]: > Yes, recycling other people’s recycling of other people’s recycling of cat gifs is fun and easy on Tumblr. Yes, rubbing out a good bon mot on Twitter can satisfy one’s ego and rekindle a wistful remembrance of
Blogging
There’s more to lists than you think [http://www.fastcompany.com/3021379/work-smart/the-amazing-history-of-the-to-do-list-and-how-to-make-one-that-actually-works] : > Umberto explained in an interview that lists are often seen as relics of primitive cultures–simplistic devices that don’t belong in our modern day and age. However, the simple form of the list
Blogging
This is really handy to know [http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/2903/markdown-anywhere-with-marsedit]: > If you are publishing to a blog system that does not recognize Markdown, and you can’t for example install a custom WordPress plugin to facilitate such recognition, you will need to see that your Markdown
Blogging
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/09/berlin-bar.jpg] Right now, I’m in the foothills of the most scarily busy phase of my consulting life since a few weeks back at the beginning of the year. My diary is looking pretty solid, bar a few