Tag: blogging
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A new interview with Manton Reece of Micro.blog for 2019
Last year, around this time, I published an interview with Manton Reece – founder of Micro.blog (M.b) – about how the platform was growing and what the goals for 2018 were. It was such a great interview and it helped me to understand the direction that M.b was going that I knew I had to…
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Responses to RSS isn’t dead. Subscribing is alive.
There were a number of responses to RSS isn’t dead. Subscribing is alive. Partly due to being on Micro.blog Discover and perhaps also due to Brent Simmons linking to it (thanks Brent!). Chris Aldrich: Iāve been enamored of the way that SubToMe has abstracted things to create a one click button typically with a āFollow…
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Signal v Noise exits Medium
DHH: These days Medium is focused on their membership offering, though. Trying to aggregate writing from many sources and sell a broad subscription on top of that. And itās a neat model, and itās wonderful to see Medium try something different. But itās not for us, and itās not for Signal v Noise. SvN was…
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RSS is not dead. Subscribing is alive.
Sinclair Target, writing for Motherboard: Today, RSS is not dead. But neither is it anywhere near as popular as it once was. This isn’t the first nor the last article to cover the creation of the RSS standard, its rise to relative popularity with Google Reader, and its subsequent fall from popularity. But the big…
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Dialog out of beta
Mike Haynes: We appreciate everyoneās patience as we worked through the development process and look forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback. Mike may see the development and launch of Dialog as taking longer than he would have liked, but from where I sit the app has come a long way in a relatively short…
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Repost: Anton Peck on blogging in 2019
š Anton Peck on Twitter: Prediction: 2019 will be a noticable shift back to blogging. Social networks may see a slight hit. People have things to say, ideas to write about, stories to share.
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Ton Zijlstra linking curiosity to his blogging
Ton Zijlstra, replying to Frank Meeuwsen’s post that was replying to my post, took a different angle: Over the last 16 years my blog has been a good instrument to trigger, feed and explore my curiosity. Me blogging more means Iām curious to expand my horizons again. His post reminded me of a discussion that…
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My crypto and indie web goals for 2019
Steven Johnson, in Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble: The true believers behind blockchain platforms like Ethereum argue that a network of distributed trust is one of those advances in software architecture that will prove, in the long run, to have historic significance. I’m very late to the game in reading Johnson’s piece in the NYT. I’ve…
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
š Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
š Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
š Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
š Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
š Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
š Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Repost: Aaron Parecki \”blogchain\”
š Aaron Parecki: what if instead of webring we called it blogchain
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Keeping a record of your thoughts and media and owning it
Go ahead and read Matt Haughey’s post on why he left Twitter. But I wanted to pull out this bit: I didnāt like that everything I wrote ended up being hard to find or reference, and even hard for me to pull up myself when I wanted, where a blog makes it pretty dang easy…
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We got blogging right 20 years ago – Jack Baty
Jack Baty: Looking at my blog from 2003 makes me think we got blogging right early on. Yep. Everything else has been additive. But a blog from 20 years ago, like mine, would be just as good today as then.
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One year of Micro.blog
Manton Reece: A little over a year ago we started rolling out Micro.blog to Kickstarter backers. So much has happened since then ā from new Micro.blog platform features to companion apps like Sunlit and Wavelength ā that I wanted to highlight a few milestones. See also, my interview with Manton earlier this year. So much has…
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Three updates to my site
I’ve recently made three small updates to my site. I suppose the first one isn’t so small. I’ve changed web hosts. Last week I migrated this site from WP Engine (which was getting very costly) to Dreamhost (which, so far, has under performed). Moving the site was rather painless. However, the performance of Dreamhost’s shared…
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Daily blogging is freeing
Dan Moore on how blogging every day for 100 days lessened the pressure of publishing: But once I committed to writing once a day, I was focused on getting something out. I still wanted to be proud of it, but there wasnāt as much pressure. It could even be something really short, or just a…
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Simmons returns to the blog
Brent Simmons: I realized that I want my blog to be me on the web. This used to be true, but then along came Twitter, and then my presence got split up between two places. Welcome back to using one spot to blog and microblog Brent. I find myself in the same dilemma with Instagram lately. I…
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Austin Kleon on daily blogging
Austin Kleon: Also, quite frankly, Twitter turned into a cesspool almost overnight. My friend Alan Jacobs was very vocal about his split from Twitter, and after reading his vibrant blog and new book, How To Think, I just decided to give daily blogging a go again, and this time, to do it on my URL, on my old-school WordPress blog,…
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Repost: Becky Hansmeyer on deleting blog posts
šĀ Becky Hansmeyer: Every once in awhile I have to fight off the urge to go through my blog and delete old posts that I consider stupid or poorly written. I have to remind myself that theyāre all part of the journey; Iām a better writer now than I was four years ago, and a better…
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An interview with Manton Reece of Micro.blog
I have fond memories of the very early days of WordPress (when it had just been forked from b2/cafelog), of Twitter, of Brightkite, of App.net, of Mastodon… just to name a few. The early days of any platform or so important to what they will become. They are the most fun to watch. The early…
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Dean Allen
I did not know Dean Allen. But you couldn’t have been a blogger in the early 2000s without coming across, and admiring and swooning over, Textism – Dean’s blog. I was no exception. In fact, I was still subscribed to Textism’s RSS feed until I heard the news. Likely a 15 or so year old…
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Fred Wilson on owning your content
Fred Wilson: I would never outsource my content to some third party. I blog on my own domain using open source software (WordPress) that I run on a shared server that I can move if I want to. It is a bit of work to set this up but the benefits you get are enormous.…
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An update via Android (audio)
A quick audio bit, recorded while driving through my car’s audio system for part of it (sorry), regarding upcoming blog posts and reviews of Android and the Pixel 2 XL. Download audio
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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 Follow Friday, we want to encourage helpful recommendations rather than lists of accounts to follow. We suggest you make just one recommendation per…
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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 ādoes a Trumpā and supposedly signs over all control of Facebook while making a run for the White House. I don’t think Zuckerberg will ever leave Facebook. Not even…
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The new Technorati
Glenn Rice: My first impression is that micro.blog could be the new, simplerĀ TechnoratiĀ for the rising IndieWeb tide ā a nice centralised way for people to discover each otherās posts and sites without losing the decentralised, own-your-data nature of the indieweb. I have very fond memories of Technorati so I do not mind this comparison. Technorati…
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Micro.blog is now public
Manton Reece: Micro.blog is now available to anyone. Thereās 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 Micro.blog on the web, Mac, and iOS for a few months and the community there has been great. In fact, the vast majority…
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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
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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 got mentioned on Wired.com, I started getting around 2,000 visitors to it per day, which I thought was a lot. But then in…
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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 to display his content for him and his audience. It is a topic that has fascinated me for 20 years and to see…
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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 Iām going to write a TNG related blog post every day this month. Why? Why not! TNG being Star Trek: The Next Generation. Let’s see if he keeps it up. I’m rooting for him.
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FollowFriday, belated
I was away for the weekend, so this is coming on Monday, sorry. Jimmy Baum: Colin Devroe suggested a #FollowFriday movement. Iāll start off with two bloggers Iām enjoying. Thanks to Jimmy for including me! Here are two others I suggest following: Manton Reece – Many discussions begin with Manton’s blog as he’s the tip…
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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 perfection that it instills. And that’s something to be thankful for. Agreed. Congratulations to Colin. I expect him to hit 2000 in no…
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John George shares a solution
John George, fellow NEPA.js attendee: Iām writing this because I discovered the hard way thatĀ .NET Coreās ādotnet runā command is NOT meant to be production ready. My biggest headache was that my website shut down when I exited my shell. Not even the ādisownācommand would dissociate the running service from the user. Posts like this…
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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 are presenting as well. Go grab your tickets.
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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 track of the numbers is just more work. I will, however, denote in the title that this is an audio post. I’m also…
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Jack Baty: āPlease just start a blogā
Jack Baty on his rather handsome looking new blog: Would you all please just start a blog? I donāt care which platform you choose. Pick one and publish. Cross-post or donāt. Implement Webmentions or donāt. Allow comments or donāt. Tweak the design to within an inch of its life or donāt. Publish long posts or…
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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 Devroeās posts (links at the bottom), Iāve made a few decisions. I’m glad my posts, in which I was just thinking out loud and forming my own opinions on these matters, helped him to form his. I believe everyone should…
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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 just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does…
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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 just that and not a reply. It’s a question of semantics but not everyone’s answer to "what is a comment and where does…