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Blogosphere magazine: last decade's jargon on today's newsstands Paid Members Public
Of all the things I expected to find in the WHSmith in Clapham Junction, this was not one of them: Blogosphere? (Top shelf, right hand side.) There’s a word I haven’t heard – or used [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/archives/2015/01/blogging-evolved-buzzfeed.html] – in a long, long time.
(no title) Paid Members Public
[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.
Why blogging still matters post-Facebook and Google Reader Paid Members Public
[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
Blog recommendations: narrative places and fabulous food Paid Members Public
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/
The existential dilemma of paywalls Paid Members Public
Are you familiar with the expression “tl;dr”? Classic “internet speak” for “too long; didn’t read”. It’s often used in a mocking, trolling sense. Well, now there’s a new variation on it: bp;dr [http://bigthink.com/neurobonkers/a-human-right-to-science-bpdr] “behind paywall; didn’t read” In the context
Still doomed, after all these years Paid Members Public
Private Frazer’s Doomed Magazines is five years old [http://privatefraser.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/five-years-down/]. At this rate it might out-live the industry: > Actually, of course publishing will survive, but in five years time there will be fewer titles and fewer big companies. Magazines will continue to
The Back to the Blog challenge Paid Members Public
Steph [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2012/10/29/10-day-back-to-blogging-challenge/] : > For the next ten days, starting tomorrow (Tuesday), I’m going to write a post a day. I’ll keep it short: blogging used to be quick and dirty, and somewhere between the arrival of Facebook and Twitter, posts have
Mac Tip: Where did I read that? Paid Members Public
One of the nice things about shifting from a corporate employee to freelance consultant-for-hire type, is completely defining my own work style and tools. For example, I just figured out how to solve the “where did I read that?” issue that often plagues me when blogging. For example, while writing
