Putting your work out into the world can intimidate even the most creative and confident of artists. You do that when you blog, but many fail to put it on the same scale as writing a novel or painting a landscape, for example. Why is it so hard to just blog? A number of reasons […]
Tag Archives: Blogging
The Slow Web
We become obsessed with tools and methods, very rarely looking at how these relate to the fundamental basics of web standards, accessibility and progressive enhancement. We obsess about a right way to do things as if there was one right way rather than looking at the goal; how things fit into the broader philosophy of […]
How Future-Safe are Your Ideas?
Will the Big Think piece you just posted to Medium be there in 2035? That may sound like it’s very far off in the future, and who could possibly care, but if there’s any value to your writing, you should care. Having good records is how knowledge builds. If we’re constantly starting over how can […]
The Web We Have To Save
I miss when people took time to be exposed to different opinions, and bothered to read more than a paragraph or 140 characters. I miss the days when I could write something on my own blog, publish on my own domain, without taking an equal time to promote it on numerous social networks; when nobody […]
Perfectionism and Blogging
My colleague Kathryn Presner talks about perfectionism and blogging on Press Publish. Has perfectionism stopped you from blogging? It has me, but not lately.
Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Medium?
And when the publisher of a personal site writes for Medium, is she really giving up on her own site? Couldn’t she be simply hoping to reach new readers? Jeffrey Zeldman in Who’s Afraid of the Big, Bad Medium?
Google and Blogs: Uh Oh
Everyone’s spending increasingly more consumption time dicking around in apps and snacking on bite-sized social content instead of browsing websites and searching Google.Publishers are relying more on social traffic not because Google’s squeezing them out, but because that’s where everyone went. The dominance of mobile usage, social networks, and YouTube, plus attention-competition from apps, are the real […]
What I Learned Blogging 34 Straight Days
I wrote a blog post every day during the month of November. Combine that with a handful of posts I wrote consecutively in October and I amassed a 34-day streak. Not bad! I’ve never blogged that much before in the history of this site. Here’s what I learned from doing it. The Process Most of my […]
Blogging Dreams
I’ve blogged for 26 straight days. It has reaffirmed my love for writing, and I’ve had fun watching what has happened as a result. I’m going to write more about this later, but one thing I realized a few days ago centers on impact. As a writer, you always want to make a difference with your […]
Blogging Every Day
I believe writers aren’t born, they’re made. Word by word. Lately, a few people I read/follow have taken 30-day blogging challenges. It’s got me thinking: Could I blog for 30 days or more? I’m about to find out. During November, I’m going to try to blog every day. I think I can do it. I’ve […]