Digital by Default

Tag: blogging

  • [Make things open] Picking a platform

    [Make things open] Picking a platform

    As a side-effect of my evangelism for working in the open I semi-regularly get asked for recommendations about which publishing platform someone should use and how they should get started. Firstly before even choosing a platform I think you need your own domain. You really cannot rely on any web service to last these days…

  • Introducing Bloggers about Blogging

    Introducing Bloggers about Blogging

    The blogging renaissance in my little corner of the open web shows no sign of slowing – my blogroll is getting pretty long, Steve’s OPML refreshed my feedreader with new voices and ohh.directory regularly surfaces new blogs to follow. I love it and have been thinking of a way to capture this moment of time…

  • Top 10 posts in 2018

    I blogged a lot this year — more than ever I suspect — but nothing really found much of an audience. In fact I have a feeling my readership was the lowest it has been for years. Still it is quality not quantity. Tim Ferris’s 11 questions from Tribe of Mentors — Jukesie edition https://productforthepeople.xyz/tim-ferriss-11-questions-from-tribe-of-mentors-jukesie-edition-d65dd352947b How I Learned to Stop Worrying and…

  • The Howard Hawks method

    I sometimes feel a bit guilty that I give the same talk more than once or return to the same topics for blogposts time and again. But then I think about Howard Hawks. For those of you who do not know Hawks was a Hollywood movie director whose career straddled silent films and ‘talkies’. While…

  • Tin man

    10 years of making spelling mistakes on the world wide web Today is the 10 year (tin) anniversary of my first ‘proper’ blogpost. I had actually been playing around for a year or so using Typepad but on the 27th August 2007 I wrote my first post on the new WordPress blog network I had launched…