Tag: blogging
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A note about blogging
Great quote from Dave Winer: A good blog exists independently of people reading it.
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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 used to. I’d second-guess tweets and even articles, based on what I thought would appeal to my readers – who were mostly programmers.…
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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 moving some furniture around, blogging is preparing for a comeback, and we’ll all be better off for it. Related: this, this, and this.…
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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 the middle of slump who is finally starting to recover his swing — connecting, but still missing the power. The desire to blog…
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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 short posts constantly. Multiple times a day. Twitter and Waxy Links cannibalized all the smaller posts, and as my reach grew, I started…
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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 good idea. Writing has never been an issue for me. I’ve typed a bunch of posts here. But I’ve strayed from the personal…
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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. Some think that today’s social web, while it has stifled blogging tremendously, will still end up providing some value to independent blogs in…
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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 line you use to describe what you do and really think about the impact your work has. Totally agree. I also find speaking…
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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. Jeremy Keith has noticed too: I’m not saying that this is a trend (the sample size is far too small to draw any…
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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 I’d much rather people respond via their own blog, Twitter or email I do not want to manage them This topic will simply…
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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 unease, even disgust, with the sanitised, shrink-wrapped, handholding platforms that make it oh-so-easy to get your thoughts out there …on their terms …for…
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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 all of those services together on to my personal site. I’m going to begin working on one service at a time, slowly bringing…
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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 great point that one doesn’t only have a blog now but that we all have some combination of other platforms that we meet…
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Writing is the 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 nugget: If you’re looking for the next Tao, in other words, ignore the guy checking e-mail while running to his next meeting, and…
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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, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately,…
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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, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately,…
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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, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately,…
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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, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately,…
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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, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately,…
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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, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately,…
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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, to blog what I’d figured out, to provide a clear constructive encouragement instead of just a criticism. And.. If you believe something passionately,…
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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 moderation, but it’s very easy to use them to the point of distraction. Since I read Twitter as free time permits, I don’t…
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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. One of the benefits I see coming from disabling comments is the number of links you end up getting back to your site.…
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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 waters, experimenting with the designs and layouts of their sites, constantly trying to find the right set of features that a blog needed.…
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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 head. Lets bring RSS "back" by teaching at least one friend how to use it. Why? The vast majority of people that surf…
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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 scales (you know, because of the cast iron). She’s up to 38 or so. I’ll be watching every single one. Other projects like…
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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 time, actually ever since I got an email from Marisa McClellan stating that she replied to a comment I left on her blog,…
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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 original post was written in late February. Ugh. Alex Payne, one of the many talented people behind Twitter, recently wrote on his blog…
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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 their goods on many different services. I’d be remiss not to mention my goal of Bringing it all together and how I’m getting pretty…
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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 each blog post should be thought of as a starting point of, or a response to, a conversation. Some deal with this issue…
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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 of coffee. But this past week’s BlogPhiladelphia unconference flies in the face of the misnomer that Pennsylvania is indeed "behind the times". The…
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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 bloggers in the Philly area. First, we met up with Andrea and Tom. This happened to be Tom’s first Meetup also. It would…
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Philadelphia Meetups
Also known as: Colin’s first try at this meetup thing. This Saturday, at around 2pm EST, Eliza, Chris and I are heading down to Philadelphia for the April Philadelphia WordPress Meetup, organized by Owen Winkler. Shortly thereafter, since it would appear that the WordPress meetup will only last about an hour, we’ll attend the April…