Another fresh start
I have decided to refresh my approach to blogging (yet again). There are a couple of main drivers for this.
Tag: Blogging
Busi-ness and blogging in 2024
A busier life, and recent events on the internet, mean a new direction for my blog.
20 years of blogging
Today marks the 20th anniversary of my first blog post. Blogging is important to me, but it has seen many changes. The online publishing ecosystem is having a moment right now. So what’s next?
2019/2020
Christmas and new year is a time for reflection for most people. It never seems to work that way for me.
A year of blogging daily
Last year I began a routine of publishing shorter posts on an almost-daily basis. Today marks a full year of blogging on a daily basis. It’s also the day I’ll stop posting each day.
Shifting focus
When it came to blogging, the tail was wagging the dog. So I have changed my routine.
So it happened — Flickr has got rid of almost-unlimited storage
This week, Flickr announced that free accounts will be limited to only 1,000 photos. It’s another warning that we can’t rely on externally-run content silos.
The web’s bloated middle
Website publishers have been incentivised to do exactly the opposite of what could have made the web so great.
A brutal redesign
When I started to experiment with different ways of blogging, I realised what I was doing was a bit off. So I decided to redesign the blog.
Happy new year 2018 — reflections and resolutions
2017 is a year that showed that I have a lot to be grateful for. But even though I don’t normally set new year’s resolutions, I am setting myself three broad goals for 2018.
Why it’s time to reclaim our digital lives
The more we come to understand about the big social media networks’ impact on society, the less appealing it becomes. It’s time we stopped letting them control our digital lives. This is why I will start blogging again.
Protecting the web as a democratic medium
Why are writers publishing their content to platforms like Medium when it threatens to undermine the do-it-yourself culture that made the web great?