Digital by Default

Tag: Writing

  • [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…

  • This is how I work…give or take

    A revisit to my occasional rip-off of the Lifehacker How I Work Series 🙂 Location: Bristol, UK (sometimes Taunton..or London..or Swansea)Current Gig: Director, Lean Product Management at Notbinary*Current mobile device: iPhone SE & Nokia 7 PlusCurrent computer: Macbook and PixelbookOne word that best describes how you work: Openly. First of all, tell us a little about…

  • The what and why of NaBloPoMo..

    NaBloPoMo = National Blog Post Month apparently. As far as I can tell it was something the BlogHer community started a few years ago inspired by the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) and amongst other things is more international than national and seems to be less focused on a single month than it used to…

  • The why of weeknotes

    A little research suggests the first time I came across a #weeknote was August 5th, 2009. It was written by Matt Webb and I think it was probably on the Schulze & Webb website before they became BERG (thanks, I seem to remember, to a conversation with Warren Ellis about the ‘British Experimental Rocket Group’…