With my month-long experiment in daily posting a week away from its blissful conclusion, I thought I’d check to see what effect, if any, it was having on the site’s traffic. So I checked in with the handy WordPress traffic page. Here’s what I saw, with the addition of the most trafficked posts and the […]
Inspired by Ev and pressured by my last-minute adoption of NaBloPoMo, I’ve decided to open the floor to questions and inspiration. Something you wanted to ask? A topic you’d like to see me cover? Life, design, photography, community … the floor is open. Leave a comment and I’ll do my best to answer in upcoming […]
Jimmy Wales of Wikipedia has a great riff I’ve heard him deliver in several interviews. It goes something like this: A community site is like a dinner party. Most will kick you out for using the wrong fork.
Wales uses this metaphor to describe how much more elegant wikis are. And while I may quibble […]
So my dalliance with Hemingway has come to an end. No offense to Kyle Neath - it’s a really lovely theme - but as a designer I’m much too picky to live with a template I didn’t make for too long. Turns out, my tolerance lasts about 6 weeks.
So I made my own WordPress theme. […]
So I’m back. Why? A few reasons.
I’ve got a few posts percolating in me and I need a place to put them. I’ve got some block about putting them up at Vox. I think it’s because of the ads. If my words are going to earn a CPC, I want it to be on my […]
Or: Consumer-Made Media and the Almighty Buck
Jason Calacanis is the P.T. Barnum of the weblog world. Barnum took a hirsute woman and turned her into The Bearded Lady. Calacanis took something as banal as paying writers to write and turned it into An Issue That Must Be Discussed. And I’m glad, because it is.
If […]
Notable insights from the PEW Internet study on blogging:
1. “The most popular topic among bloggers is their life and experiences.”
I knew this and you knew this, but it’s nice to see the numbers back it up. What do bloggers write about? Life, baby. Same as it ever was for anyone with a pen and a […]
Today I embark on the very exciting 2006 Powazek World Tour. (Well, if you consider Portland and DC the world and two stops to be a tour, anyway.)
This Thursday and Friday I’ll be participating in a private conference sponsored by - I swear I’m not making this up - the State Department. It’s called the […]
Dear internet,
Can I make a suggestion? Let’s all stop using the phrase “user-generated content.” I’m serious. It’s a despicable, terrible term. Let’s deconstruct it.
User: One who uses. Like, you know, a junkie.
Generated: Like a generator, engine. Like, you know, a robot.
Content: Something that fills a box. Like, you know, packing peanuts.
So what’s user-generated content? […]
Congrats to Jason for getting Blogger Code 2.0 out! I whipped up a little design lovin for it. Oh, and, here’s my code. What’s yours?
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