Tag: blogging
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Florian Ziegler discontinues monthly posts
Florian Ziegler: I tried to do these monthly posts for a while because I like to read them when others post them. But I always forget to write down things I’ve been watching or doing, so at the end of the month, it feels like too much work to try to remember everything and then…
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Jeremy Keith just publishes
Jeremy Keith, in his interview on Manuel Moreale’s People & Blogs series: I never write down those things bouncing around in my head. I know I probably should. But then if I’m going to take the time to write down an idea for a blog post, I might as well write the blog post itself.…
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Does my blog need to support ActivityPub?
I have my reservations about whether or not blogs (specifically my blog) should federate content via ActivityPub. Isn’t RSS enough?
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On the need to disrupt the structure of a blog
Chris Armstrong, advocating for a digital garden over a blog structure: A blog structure places the highest emphasis on ‘what’s new’… but what’s new has had the least scrutiny and little authority. Robin Rendle linked to Armstrong’s post recently and reading it reminded me of my 2011 post The blog format is ready for disruption.…
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I’ll read it too
Manuel Moreale helps remove a new blogger’s fear of having no readers by committing to be the first. Count me in too.
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Please publish more (on your website)
Jeff Triplett urges us to publish more from our own domains. I agree. But it isn’t easy.
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Arun Venkatesan on their blogging philosophy
Independence, Creativity, Connection.
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Three key takeaways from FinCon 2024
A few NerdPress team members sponsored/exhibited at FinCon 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia this past week and I thought I’d distill the numerous conversations I had with attendees, speakers, and sponsors into three key takeaways. Visiting Atlanta in fall is… very warm! It was nice to be downtown and see the FinCon audience be so enthusiastic…
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Tracy Durnell on weeknotes
Tracy Durnell, who is very good at weekenotes: I don’t track anything that could make me feel actually bad about myself. I might be a little embarrassed if I don’t write as much as I wanted to, but no one’s going to judge me as a person for it — creative folks get it. Read…
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Molly White on building the web we want
Molly White: Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it’s become a lot easier. We can return. Better, yet: we can restore the things we loved about the old web while incorporating the wonderful things that have emerged since, developing even better things as we go forward, and…
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The first rebuilding blocks
Korczak Ziolkowski wakes up early on a bitter cold winter’s morning – the same way he has for several decades – after breakfasting and a few mugs of the hottest coffee his palette can stand, he shoulders his tool belt and trods his way in knee-high snow to the eastern wall of the Crazy Horse…
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Colin Walker on what he gets from blogging
Colin Walker, on his personal blog (which is looking sharp as ever) about what he gets from blogging in public: “I feel compelled to write, to share, and there is an intense satisfaction in doing so. The sharing is a secondary but essential aspect; while journalling is a rewarding process it doesn’t fill the same…
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Simon Reynolds on blogging
Simon Reynolds, in December, marking the 20th anniversary of Blissblog: I honestly can’t see that anyone has invented a better format than the blog, at least for what I want to do. Simon’s entire post is dripping with flattering remarks about how enjoyable and rewarding blogging is. Those of us in the 20+ year blogging…
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Take care of your blog
Robin Rendle: There will be lonely, barren years of no one looking at your work. There will be blog posts that you adore that no one reads and there’ll be blog posts you spit out in ten minutes that take the internet by storm. Checks out. I blog a lot. I’ve blogged for decades. And…
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Montaigne – Blog with Apple Notes
Montaigne: Build a website, blog, or portfolio using nothing but Apple Notes. Pretty cool.
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Waxy.org turns 20
I celebrated right along with Andy when Waxy.org turned 10 and I’m still here cheering him on as Waxy.org turns 20. Andy Baio: Ten years ago, I wrote a roundup of my favorite posts from my first decade of blogging, and I thought I’d do the same thing for 2012-2021. If you missed them the first time…
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Tom MacWright on blogging
Tom MacWright: There just aren’t as many active blogs as there were in the past. I think this has amplified the benefits of blogging: you can make more of an impact and create more of an identity with a blog than you can with Twitter or any siloed social network. I was just having this…
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My 2021 blogging stats
Number of posts per month: Total: 420 See 2020. I posted more to my blog in 2021 than 2020. As I said in my review post, I need to sit down and give a hard think to what my goals for 2022 will be, but I do hope they include sharing more here on my…
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2021 in review: blog and projects
I thought it would be fun to review what has happened this past year on my blog, what I had set out to do, and what I’ve accomplished. I’m hoping that by writing this post it will give me some clarity on what I may want to try to do in 2022. January In very…
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Micro.blog adds Flickr support
Manton Reece: This is for people who have a Flickr account that has gone unused, but who know there’s value on Flickr if only it was easier to remember to use it. Nice simple feature. I’m sure many will dig it. Glad to see Flickr being added to anything these days. All Flickr fans should…
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Jeremy Keith’s blog turns 20
Happy belated Anniversary to Jeremy Keith’s blog. Jeremy Keith: Many’s the blogger who has let the weeds grow over their websites as they were lured by the siren song of centralised social networks. I’m glad that I’ve managed to avoid that fate. It feels good to look back on twenty years of updates posted on…
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What I saw somewhat recently #86: September 11, 2021
I was recently able to jump on a train and photograph the Engineer. Look for that in my portfolio when I develop the film. Speaking of my photography portfolio, I’ve added several portraits including Max, Anthony, Zombie, and Bill. My goal is far more portraits moving forward. I’d love your feedback on them! You can…
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Dave Rupert on blog post hits
Dave Rupert: Two posts that I thought would be bangers got nearly zero reach. The inverse law of blogging strikes again! The Surprise Chain is a post I quite literally worked on for over six years, but it got under a thousand hits. CSS Modules-in-CSS Module Scripts did a little better but I’m not cashing any blogging…
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Nicky Case on RSS
Nicky Case: RSS works on a “don’t call me, I’ll call you” policy. I like that line. Readers of this blog need not be reminded of the value of RSS (nor of my love of it). But I thought Nicky’s post on RSS was worthy of a link anyway.
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An updated list of film photography blogs by Jim Grey
Jim Grey: It’s time for my annual list of film photography blogs! A great joy of film photography is the community of people who enjoy everything about it: the gear, the films, getting out and shooting, and looking at the resulting photographs. Lots of us share our adventures on our blogs. He removed my blog…
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My 2020 blogging stats
Yes, I’m writing this post in July of 2021. I don’t know what to tell you. Number of posts per month: Total number of posts: 353 A rather large portion were titleless status updates. I started off with a bang on January 1 by announcing my full return to the Mac. And here I am,…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Julia Evans \”Blog about what you’ve struggled with\”
Julia Evans: I think this approach is effective because if I struggled with something, there’s a pretty good chance that other people are struggling with it too, and what I learned is likely to be useful to at least some of them! This type of blogging has been a door opener for me. I’ve written…
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Cory Doctorow writes about 20 years of blogging
Here are a few bits from Cory Doctorow’s Medium post on blogging: The genius of the blog was not in the note-taking, it was in the publishing. The act of making your log-file public requires a rigor that keeping personal notes does not. Writing for a notional audience — particularly an audience of strangers — demands…
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Trial Micro.blog for podcasting
Manton Reece: To celebrate the launch of version 1.1, we’re enabling podcast hosting for all paid Micro.blog accounts for the next 2 weeks. You can publish a podcast episode to your blog via Wavelength, or upload an MP3 directly on the web. We take care of generating a podcast feed and all the other details.…
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Robin Rendle on blog post titles
Robin Rendle: I love it when blog post titles are indecipherable to search engines. There are exceptions, like when you want to document a technical thing and so you should have a blog post title describe that but the majority of the time I feel like blog post titles should sound like the chapters of…
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Christian McGregor on blogging our choices
Christian McGregor, in response to my photo library management workflow post: I appreciate the effort people take to post things like this. Every post adds to the pool of knowledge to help avoid easily made but difficult to change mistakes, like Colin’s own findings when depending on Apple Photos as the main tool. I appreciate that Christian…
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Cypress is now available for free on Micro.blog
If you’re a member of Micro.blog you can now choose to use Cypress as your theme for free. Log in and click on your Design settings page, and choose the theme. That’s it. I’m happy that this came together. I thought it might be fun to make a Micro.blog theme and when I tossed the…
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Micro.blog launches Discourse help center
Manton Reece: The idea is to use the web forums software Discourse and combine it with all the content from our original help site. This looks like it will be very helpful. A place where the Micro.blog team can add new content and the entire community can easily add their own helpful information, ask questions,…
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James Michie’s tips for blogging
James Michie, 10 years ago, wrote a post about what he had learned after a year of blogging. Then, this year, he wrote a very short post to revisit and update that list. He wrote: Ten years on and most of the points in the above post still hold up. Except for number nine, that…