It’s too easy to post that interesting article to Facebook or Twitter and not say much about it. I wasted the last hour reading updates on Facebook. I don’t want to break other people’s news. The ideas that really fascinate me are the ones other people tell me about and they haven’t written about them […]
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The number of long form blog post have been declining for years. Most speculate that it’s because most of us spend more time microblogging on Twitter and Facebook. Certainly, when I started blogging in 2004, I blogged a lot of things that I would only tweet now. In November 2010, Jeff Bercovici wrote on Forbes:
We all have blog posts we haven’t written. Boris Mann wrote about why he hasn’t posted some. Here are the top 7 reasons I haven’t published some of the blog posts I’ve written. Half baked. My idea was half baked. A lot of times I find myself blogging about things I’m still trying to work
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As most writers can tell you, you write for somebody else. You write because you want someone else to read your opinion, your knowledge or your funny stories. The problem is that many of us bloggers don't know exactly who we are writing for. A couple thousand people a day may land on your blog
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My top 11 blog posts of the year. (11 because I didn’t want the first one to be about me.) The top 10 is never what I would have predicted but all topics I think are important. Fundraising for a technical nonprofit I’m the new Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation! Cheap mini-laptop How I’m
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When it comes to making choices, people often default to "safety in numbers", i.e. what everyone else is doing. While the internet is widely applauded for bringing lots of information and reviews about products, it also allows you to judge what's most popular. For example, on Flickr you can see what cameras people are using:
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There’s a very cool diary of a World War I veteran created from his journal and pictures by his grandson. If anybody would like to do something like this with any of my family members, I’d be happy to help out on the technical side! On a similar note, my grandmother had a blog. She
I really enjoy reading The Pioneer Woman’s blog and I even bought her calendar because I like her pictures so much. This is the woman who left Los Angeles, married a rancher and now home schools her four children. And takes 75-150 pictures a day of life on the ranch. I’ve wondered several times
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Blogs are like diaries but they are public. They are obviously meant to be read, to be shared – otherwise why put them on the web, right? That said, there are some blogs that make you wonder why people are writing that in public. And I have to admit that lately there’s been a few
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One of my photos from Napa is being used by Napa Valley Schmap.
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