- Sixteen Years | MetaTalk
Matt Haughey is retiring from Metafilter. I've never been part of the site's community, but I have always loved it, enjoyed reading the wonderful things that came out of it, and appreciated the work he has done in building the site, the community and the team that will now run it. I wish him every success in his future endeavours.
- Amuse Your Bouche – Simple vegetarian recipes
I want to eat a bit more healthily, and a fast way to do that would be more vegetarian cooking. There's several things on here I really want to try.
Tag: blogging
Bookmarks for September 26, 2014
- ntlk's blog: Why can't you track periods in Apple's Health app?
As this article makes clear: there probably isn't a good reason why not, and there are loads of reasons why it would be useful. I would home this is an oversight that will be rapidly corrected.
- 15 Lessons from 15 Years of Blogging – Anil Dash
I sort of wish I had kept up the habit of writing "proper" posts on this site, or any other. I'm not even honestly sure that I can point to when I stopped. Honestly, I'm not sure I ever really started – I've never had a topic to explore, never tried to set my blog up as about anything – it's just, y'know, an agglomeration of stuff. Which explains why it has a double digit audience on a good day. But then, it's really not for the audience, so that's fine – it's an aide memoire for me. Anyway – some solid advice here.
Bookmarks for May 31, 2013
- Designing blogs for readers – Matt Gemmell
I am optimistically hoping to move to a new blogging platform before the end of the year. (I may wind up remaining with wordpress a while longer, but a move is at least on the cards.) As part of the move, I'd like to give myself a custom design, and I want to refer back to this post when I come up with it.
Bookmarks for May 16, 2013
- This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community
The next time someone tells you the internet is killing our attention span, send them here. This is utterly fascinating stats-based analysis of new ways of publishing long form news and analysis on the web.
- On the Constant Moment – clayton cubitt
A superb essay on photography's place in our culture. I've seen a few people linking to this already, and they've all picked the same stand-out sentence because, fuck me, it's a doozy. "It is the creation of art through the curation of time." What a beautiful and clearly expressed idea. I'm going to be picking that one apart for a while to come.
Bookmarks for May 18, 2012
- Easter island heads have bodies!?? | Thinkbox
From the department of "I did not know that". There's a story in there somewhere. Possibly underground.
- Blogging is not a thing, it’s an attitude
A simple and clear insight into why "corporate blogging" is an oxymoron. In order to blog, one must be free to express one's *true* thoughts, on any subject that one is moved to. Otherwise, you're just writing on a website. Which is not a bad thing – there is not value judgement necessarily implied here, although yes, I do have a preference, and you can guess what it is – but it's not blogging.
Bookmarks for May 14, 2012
- The Sex Myth: How To Blog Anonymously (and how not to)
Good set of practical tips – useful to people who wish to blog anonymously, but also just to people who wish to minimise their identifiable digital footprint.
- 25 modern and creative product/industrial designs | From up North
Someone please buy me, well, most of these.
- Simperium
The sync service that powers Simplenote, my favourite quick text editing tools, is now available as an API for use in other apps. This is very exciting news for someone like me.
Bookmarks for November 24, 2011
- Ugh. God. Why Is Apple Making Everything Look Like an Ugly Wild West?
I could not agree more. I utterly loathe the currently look of iCal, and aside from the creepy intrusiveness which is my real reason for not using it, I would be very unlikely to use Find My Friends, either, just because it's so fucking ugly. I've never liked the yellow notes app, or stickies, or the page turn in ibooks, either.
- Google Analytics A Potential Threat to Anonymous Bloggers – Waxy.org
Useful set of thought on how it might be possible to deal with abusive commenters, even if they're trying to hide. (Also, a warning to those who have a legitimate reason to blog anonymously: you may not be as anonymous as you think.)
Bookmarks for December 23, 2010
- When’s the Best Time to Publish Blog Posts?
Some useful numbers on blog posting for optimum circulation. Short version: publish in the morning to get the regular readership, and tweet notifications in the late afternoon for maximum activity boost/retweet value. Publish a minimum of one post per day, ideally more, in order to build an audience.
- Comic Sans Criminal – There's help available for people like you!
I am going to send this to anyone I catch using Comic Sans inappropriately. Anyone continuing to misuse that sodding font after reading this is actively evil, and should probably be removed from the human race for the good of all.
Bookmarks for December 17, 2010
- Insipid
Self hosted delicious clone. Might move to this if I get time to play with it a bit.
- 2010 in photos
The Big Picture's pictures of the year are out – this is a link to part 1 – you'll find links to parts two and three below the picks. Beautiful, alarming, saddening, touching, all the usual. Well worth a squint.
- Giving better deign feedback
Bookmarks for January 7, 2010
- Ariana Osborne » No, but really: What does your blog do?
Thoughts like this are on my mind at the moment for a few reasons. I have three blogs and an LJ, and while each of them serve a distinct purpose, they really all are just personal things – there is no particular reason why anyone who doesn't know me would want to read them. Which is fine and dandy, and I find all of them useful and rewarding, or I wouldn't be keeping them, but I am wondering if there's a way I could restructure them to make them a bit more interesting to the casual visitor.