Blogging
The art and craft of the personal blog — and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
Let's try this again Paid Members Public
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 Paid Members Public
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 Paid Members Public
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 Paid Members Public
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 is dead #1 Paid Members Public
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
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings on attention and journalism Paid Members Public
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
Why I blog (an interview) Paid Members Public
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.
This is why I blog Paid Members Public
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
