Idle Words
I had no idea that Maciej Cegłowski, operator of Pinboard, had a personal blog chocked full of great writing. Did you? How did I miss this? I’m only now aware of this…
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Jeremy Keith wrote 100 words for 100 days
What an amazing feat by Jeremy Keith: I missed the daily deadline once. I could make the excuse that it was a really late night of carousing, but I knew in advance…
Why blog?
Deanna Mascle on her blog in February of this year: Blogging isn’t for everyone, but as I must write to think and process life, blogging is a gift (What Blogging Taught Me). I…
100words by Jeremy Keith
I’m loving this series of posts by Jeremy Keith tagged 100words.
A note about blogging
Great quote from Dave Winer: A good blog exists independently of people reading it.
Stop caring about follower counts
Matt Gemmell on what has changed for him in 2014 — mainly, that he no longer worries about things like stats, follower counts, and numbers. He now writes for him. But he…
Twitter is not a replacement for blogs
Marco Arment: Too much of my writing in the last few years has gone exclusively into Twitter. I need to find a better balance. And… By knocking down a few walls and…
Om on the blogging challenge so far
Om Malik: The blogging challenge, however has brought a rigor and discipline that was missing for most of the year. Almost three weeks into the challenge, I feel like a slugger in…
Blogging is back
I’m loving loving loving this. Andy Baio: So I think I‘ll try doing the same thing here. In the early days of Waxy.org, before I launched the linkblog, I used to blog…
Blogging every weekday for 30 days
Who’s in for the challenge? I’ll give it a shot. Fred Wilson pointed to Lockhart Steele and Elizabeth Spiers. Spiers mentioned trying it for 30 days so I thought that was a…
The future of blogging
I don’t know what the future of blogging is. I go back and forth between feeling that the glory days are long over to feeling that the best is yet to come….
Writing is Thinking
Sally Kerrigan, on A List Apart: When you write about your work, it makes all of us smarter for the effort, including you—because it forces you to go beyond the polite cocktail-party…
Comments are not dead
Tina Roth Eisenberg on Twitter: Comments are not dead. She’s right, of course. However, I don’t have comments on my blog for the following reasons. I do not want to manage them…
Writing from home
Me, last night on Twitter: I know @jkottke said blogs were dead. I know I said they were “just sleeping”. It might be Jason’s fault, but I think they’re on the upswing….
In dependence
Jeremy Keith has chimed in on the conversation started by Jason Kottke's "The blog is dead" piece from a few weeks ago with In dependence. Many of us are feeling an increasing…
Homesteading
In March 2008 I began to regret using so many different services to store and share different types of content like photos, tweets, videos, links. And so I began to plan bringing…
The Death of the Blog, Again, Again
I love that this topic is being discussed on blogs. John Scalzi wrote a really, really great post in response to Jason Kottke's "The blog is dead" piece. He makes a particularly…
Writing is how I think
Yesterday Chris Dixon tweeted a link to this thought-provoking blog post by Cal Newport about needing downtime to truly get into deep work. I agree with much of it, such as this…
Remembering Aaron Swartz – \”You should blog that.\”
Tantek remembers Aaron's encouragement to blog ideas and solutions: But the larger point here is that he turned a rant into a positive action. He challenged me to do something about it,…
Push notifications are the new blog comments
Craig Hockenberry opened the kimono on development of Twitteriffic 5: Personally, I find myself actively disabling notifications in most of the apps I install these days. Notifications are great when used in…
More benefits of turning off comments
Over four years ago whether a blog should or shouldn't have comments was a heavily debated topic in the blogging community. Back then I wrote about one possible benefit of disabling comments….
The blog format is ready for disruption
The recent chatter about pagination on blog home pages has reminded me of the days when blogging was just getting underway. Back then there were a few pioneers that were testing the…
Teach a friend about RSS
For the last few years I've been hearing chatter that RSS "is dead", yet, I still continue to use it every single day. So, I thought – lets turn this on its…
365 photos by Marisa McClellan
Marisa McClellan is shooting a photo per-day and posting it to her blog (and Flickr account if you'd prefer). Most of her photos are fairly drool worthy but the above tips the…
Email comment replies to commenters using the CommentMailer plugin for WordPress
Sorry for the long title but I'm guessing that this post will be found by people searching for this more than those of you that subscribe to my blog. For a long…
Regarding blog comments, again
I'm behind in my reading and even further behind in my writing. Which is why I'm just now finally writing about something I've wanted to since earlier this week even though the…
Jeffrey Zeldman: The vanishing personal site
Jeffery Zeldman on the trend of personal sites, or the one-stop URL for each person's published goods online, going the way of the dinosaur and how more and more people are publishing…
One possible benefit from disabling comments
There has been an ongoing discussion as to whether or not blogs should always have comments enabled to allow its readers to be part of the conversation. I myself firmly believe that…
Recollecting BlogPhiladelphia
If I had a dime for everytime someone asked me why I lived in Pennsylvania, instead of somewhere not so "behind the times" like Silicon Valley, I'd probably have a free cup…
Meeting up in Philly
The Philadelphia Wordpress and Weblogger meetups are over, for April. Eliza, Chris, and I drove down to Philadelphia (it takes us about two and half hours), and enjoyed the company of many…