Micro Monday – January 8, 2018: Mike Haynes
Micro.blog has a new thing where each Monday you recommend someone to follow and why. Here is Jean MacDonald, Community Manager at M.b: We are inaugurating Micro Monday January 8. Inspired by…
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Colin Walker’s tech predictions
Colin Walker answered the call. Interesting list. Here is just one: Mark Zuckerberg reveals he has political ambitions after all. Not wanting to be criticised he “does a Trump” and supposedly signs…
Best of 2017 as told by me
To create this list I sat down and wrote from the top of my head the things I could remember being awesome in 2017. The list isn't exhaustive. It is just what…
The new Technorati
Glenn Rice: My first impression is that micro.blog could be the new, simpler Technorati for the rising IndieWeb tide – a nice centralised way for people to discover each other’s posts and sites without…
Micro.blog is now public
Manton Reece: Micro.blog is now available to anyone. There’s a limit of 100 new sign-ups each day, so that we can better respond to feedback as the community grows. I've been using…
My creative energy (audio)
I'm not blogging as much. But that's just because my creative energy is being poured elsewhere. Here's what I'm up to. Download audio
Evergreen blog post traffic
Rod Hilton, creator of the aforementioned Machete Order, in December 2015 just as The Force Awakens was released: Wow, this Machete Order thing got big! After the post first "went viral" and…
Doug Lane on Microblogging tone
Doug Lane, on thinking a bit more before publishing on his own site than he would on Twitter or Facebook: If I let moments of anger or frustration sit for a bit,…
Required reading
The first time I linked to Colin Walker, which was only about 4 months ago, it was because he was fiddling with his blog, trying to come up with the right way…
Scott McNulty’s 31 TNG posts
Scott McNulty: To celebrate the 30th anniversay of a show that has had a large impact on my life I’m going to write a TNG related blog post every day this month….
FollowFriday, belated
I was away for the weekend, so this is coming on Monday, sorry. Jimmy Baum: Colin Devroe suggested a #FollowFriday movement. I’ll start off with two bloggers I’m enjoying. Thanks to Jimmy…
Colin Walker hits 1000 posts
Colin Walker: I am enjoying blogging now more than I have in a long time. The addition of microblogging greatly removes the burden of constantly writing essay pieces and the clamour for…
John George shares a solution
John George, fellow NEPA.js attendee: I’m writing this because I discovered the hard way that .NET Core’s ‘dotnet run’ command is NOT meant to be production ready. My biggest headache was that my…
Get your NEPA BlogCon 2017 Tickets
NEPA BlogCon 2017 tickets are available: Attendees can expect presentations and roundtable discussions on branding, content development, podcasting, vlogging, and more. I like the format changeup. (See also) Looks like some friends…
Mobile blogging goals (audio)
Recorded September 10, 2017 Starting with this audio bit I'm making a few changes. I'm ditching the episode numbers. My audio bits are not a podcast, they aren't really episodes, and keeping…
Jack Baty: “Please just start a blog”
Jack Baty on his rather handsome looking new blog: Would you all please just start a blog? I don’t care which platform you choose. Pick one and publish. Cross-post or don’t. Implement…
Chris Lovie-Tyler on supporting different building blocks of the IndieWeb
Chris Lovie-Tyler, from the other side of our planet: After reading a handful of Colin Devroe’s posts (links at the bottom), I’ve made a few decisions. I'm glad my posts, in which…
Colin Walker opens up comments
Hooray! Colin Walker: Colin Devroe's post was the tipping point (I told you his points were compelling) and I decided it was time to get over myself and look at opening things…
Colin Walker: \”Should replies be posts?\”
Colin Walker, in a post on whether or not replies to other posts (or, comments) should be their own posts: There has to be a line, a point where a comment is…
Colin Walker on thinking out loud on his blog
Colin Walker: It's always a little weird glancing at my visitor stats and seeing that someone has read a post that no longer reflects my position. 100% agree. Most of my posts…
Fred Wilson’s public record
Fred Wilson: AVC has been going on for almost 14 years now. I write every day, mostly about tech and investing in startups and observations about entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. He goes on…
Zach Leatherman’s garden
Zach Leatherman: As my own little corner of the web uncermoniously turned ten years old this year, it’s really starting to feel more like a garden than a piece of software. I…
Replies from Micro.blog and oh hai, comments
If you visit my site at all you may have noticed many of the recent posts have replies showing up on them from Micro.blog. Here is one example post. That is because…
Ron Chester on Webmentions
Ron Chester: I have only one reservation about the development of this IndieWeb stuff. While it is in progress, most of these websites have disabled regular comments, if they ever had them….
My personal blogging tips
I've been writing things down on my own blog for a few decades. I wish more people did too. If you'd like to have a personal blog but struggle finding things to…
Marisa McClellan on the early days of blogging
Marisa McClellan: I miss those early days of blogging, when you didn’t need perfect pictures and a post didn’t require a vigorous social media campaign in order to find some readers. Those…
Colin Walker on evergreen content
Colin Walker: Evergreen content. It’s what many bloggers crave. Posts that keep people coming back. Passive traffic that you don’t have to do anything more to receive. Back-in-the-day we called this the…
Twan van Elk on social media
Twan van Elk: Everytime I open up my feed reader and read about people’s lives, thoughts, work, observations, what they ate, that beautiful flower they saw, I ask myself: why do I…
Colin Walker on the IndieWeb
Colin Walker: Yet there is still a problem, and that is the apparent insistence on the implementation of specific technologies as implied by the guides and documentation. Go read his entire post….
Colin Walker on blogrolls
Colin Walker: Part of the problem with people based following models on social networks is that you follow the whole person so see everything they post whether it is relevant to you…