Touched a nerve
I put a little care into something and sent it out into the world.
Categories
Posts tagged ‘blogging’
Blog questions challenge
Blogging about blogging.
Protocols, platforms and priorities
Another federated outrage.
Bird’s-eye view
A welcome moment of reflection regarding Indiekit.
Warp and weft
In thinking about the fabric of the web, I unpick a few threads and tie myself in knots.
For the love of the blog
Ben got an email:
Occasionally someone gets in contact with me about my blog. This is usually to say something encouraging – how they’ve stumbled across it and found it useful. Early this year a designer I respect got in touch along these lines to say something similar. He also challenged me – I had recently written about what might be lost when we fall for the promise of convenience. He made the point that defaulting to Medium for publishing fell squarely into that category.
I’ve thought about this a lot, and I now think he’s right.
Hmm, that designer sounds like an intelligent chap! Joking aside, I’m so glad Ben decided to return to blogging on his own site. As I’ve been redesigning this site, I’ve been thinking about what an immense privilege that is. Not only to build something bespoke to your own needs, but also to be less dependant on third-party services – who don’t have a great track record when it comes to looking after their customer’s best interests. As Ben notes:
…creativity is born from experience and a blog is a great place to document ideas, and your thinking as you continue to experience the world around you.
Fixing my feeds
Fiddling around with RSS.
Microblogging
Twitter is a place I visit to get annoyed. I need an alternative. That alternative could be my very own website.
Purge
A number of half-written posts have remained on my hard drive for so long that their incompleteness only serves to annoy me. So I’ve salvaged the pertinent bits and published them here.
28 days later
February coming to a close means I can conclude my month long challenge to post to this blog each day. Having only written 14 entries, it’s a challenge for which I only half succeeded.
Wordle
A word cloud generated from content that has appeared on my site over the last few months.
28 days
With January over, and having completed the month without drinking coffee, so on to February and a far more ambitious challenge.