Moving to WordPress.com

I mentioned yesterday about how I was moving my site to WordPress.com. If you’re reading this post then it’s now live and my DNS has propagated. I moved the site for similar reasons that Daniel mentioned the other day. We’re thinking about collaborating on a… Continue reading →

A Return to Blogging. Max Cutler writes about what he’s been up to in the last 6 months and about how he’s going to start writing more. I’m looking forward to what’s coming from his site.

A little truth leaks out

What’s remarkable about [David Frum, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, and Paul Krugman], what gives me hope that there may be a way out of the bigger mess, of which this month’s meltdown is just a sympton, is that finally blogging is effectively routing around MSM. If you… Continue reading →

Tweet For The Moment, Blog For The Ages

And a week or so later, when you try to remember what you said at this party, that really terrific thing, you rack your brain, but can’t quite come up with it. That’s Twitter. The blog, on the other hand, is slow, reliably reference-able, and… Continue reading →

Notes for #J508

I drove down to Eugene today to chat with Suzi Steffen’s J508 — Reporting and Information Strategies class. It’s always a lot of fun talking with Suzi’s classes and I think it’s awesome that she brings in people to talk with her students. Something I… Continue reading →

Gopher dead, blogging lives

But try to imagine replacing Daring Fireball, Scripting News, Apple Outsider, Shawn Blanc, or any of a number of great blogs with something like Twitter. You can’t. You’d have to invent blogs so that these writers have somewhere to write. If blogs are dead, what are… Continue reading →

Evan Williams on blogging

But that made sense to me because it was not that the technology was new, it was that we had figured out this medium, at least one of the native forms of what the Web was good for. It was about freshness and about frequency,… Continue reading →

Text to WordPress In One Easy Step. Cool tutorial for setting up a one step publishing workflow from iA’s Writer to WordPress. Bonus points for working with WordPress.com and self-hosted installations.

An Ode to Software

Put another way, writing a weblog full time is not unlike farming. Lots of chores and lots of busy work that take up time every single day, but the fruit of that labor is seasonal. Shawn Blanc — An Ode to Software.

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