The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Blogging
[https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/08/9175294333_a710c0b89c_o.jpg] Nice to see that someone else has found my lightweight mobile blogging kit [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/06/lightweight_liveblogging_kit.html] suggestsions useful. Billy Abbot will be live beer blogging with a
Blogging
Dave Mascord [http://feedly.com/k/11NKXgK] > When you sit down to write it’s all too easy to just start typing immediately, which means you’ll be doing you’re thinking on-screen. Instead, take a few moments to plan your piece. It should make the editing process easier
blog platforms
Is glossy, exciting new blogging site Medium just a content farm [https://medium.com/writers-on-writing/336300490cbb]? > But it all neatly glosses over one ugly fact: Medium is just an upscale version of the same old business model used by shady content farms the world around. And it contributes to
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/desk-blogging.jpg] Once upon a time – and it feels like a long time ago – it was my job to get people blogging. I took poor, ink-stained wretches from their journalistic bunkers, and introduced them to the digital world. It
Blogging
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/station-tree.jpg] This is just a quick, slightly random, photo post to check the iPhone-to-blog photo uploading capabilities of PUPS [http://www.fomola.com/blog/we-just-released-our-latest-app-photo-uploader-for-blogs-pups/] . All looking pretty good so far.
Yesterday marked the 10th and final day of the latest #back2blog challenge [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2013/06/21/third-back-to-blogging-challenge/] . The idea was to post every day at least once for 10 days. My hope was that it would kickstart my blogging. How did it go? Well, as you can
blog strategy
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/07/conference-bloggers-working.jpg] Rogers Cadenhead on the news that Google Reader’s death was the nail in the coffin [http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3721/seth-finklestein-kills-his-blog] for Seth Finkelstein’s blog: > Finkelstein’s a much-needed voice in tech because
architecture
A couple of blog recommendations for you, to drop into whatever you’re using to replace Google Reader… Adam’s Apples Adam Scott is the creative director of FreeState and a master of brand-related storytelling. Remember my liveblogging from the Zeitgeist Project in Berlin [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/
Blogging
A quick addendum to last night’s post – a quick cut of the analytics data from my blog shows Feedly [http://cloud.feedly.com/] and the Old Reader [http://theoldreader.com] emerging as growing referrers over the last couple of weeks. I am really enjoying seeing the range of readers
Blogging
Here’s the bonus element I’m bringing to my participation in the Back to Blogging challenge [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2013/06/back-to-blogging.html]. As well as posting once a day, I’m going to be writing all my posts in Markdown [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown]
Blogging
Posting has been too patchy for too long around here. To give myself a kick in the proverbials for the next 10 days, I’ve joined the third iteration of the Back to Blogging [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2013/06/21/third-back-to-blogging-challenge/] challenge. It kicks off tomorrow, and there’s
blog platforms
[https://i0.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2013/05/ghosted.jpg] Just a quick reminder: the Kickstarter to launch Ghost [http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-blogging-platform], a new blogging platform (see posts passim [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&tag=ghost&
