I maintain (to greater or lesser extents) 3 blogs currently: https://blog.warrenmyers.com https://paragraph.cf https://antipaucity.com I keep the first and last segmented so I can more easily find things I’ve written or reposted about Christianity, religion, and the Bible, and everything else. The middle one I keep to demo the WordPress plugin I wrote – Paragraph. But …
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what if
you blogged as often as you tweeted, facebooked, linkedinned, instagrammed, plogged, pinterested, google plussed, mastodonned, etc? For many of us, that would be 4, 10, 20, 100, or even more blog posts per day. Wonder how differently we would view/utilize social media if we took that approach? Just a thought.
i wrote a thing – paragraph, a simple plugin for wordpress
Along with becoming more active on Mastodon, I’ve been thinking more about concision recently. One of the big selling points for Mastodon is that the character limit per post is 500 instead of Twitter’s 140. And I was thinking, “what if there was a way to force you to write better by writing less / …
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wordpress plugins i use
As promised last time, I now have a page dedicated to the {{WordPress}} plugins I use. Check it out, here.
use prettypress if you’re running a wordpress blog
Like my list of used Chrome Extensions, I’m building a list of recommended {{WordPress}} plugins. But until I get it done, I have to give some pretty big props to PrettyPress. It’s a plugin that lets you edit in Visual, Text, and {{Markdown}} – the markup format of sites like reddit, {{GitHub}},, {{GitLab}}, and the …
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dave winer is wrong
Or maybe he’s right. But for the wrong reason. Over on Medium, which is where I saw his post, Dave said: “The problem of requiring HTTPs in less than 140 chars: 1.Few benefits for blog-like sites, and 2. The costs are prohibitive. There’s actually a #3 (sorry) — 3. For sites where the owner is …
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i’m a medium plogger now*
(*Though most people would call me an {{XXXL}} blogger.) Following in the steps of Dave Winer, I am now plogging (sorta) on Medium. And, like Mr Winer, I’m doing it via IFTTT (though not via {{RSS}}, I’m doing it via the {{WordPress}} channel). If you’d like to do the same, use this IFTTT recipe.
plogging?
{{Wired Magazine}} recently had an article on the rise of “plogging“. By their definition, “plogging” is “PLatform blOGGING” – or {{blogging}} as part of a network/site/service (DZone, LinkedIn, Medium, Facebook, etc) instead of running your own blog somewhere (WordPress.com, Blogger, self-hosted WordPress, etc). This seems to be a modern representation of what newspapers, magazines, etc …
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don’t blog
to “compete” with others. There are great reasons to blog – but there are also lousy ones to do it. If you’re writing because you’re trying to ‘keep up with the Joneses’, so to speak, you’re doing it wrong. Don’t blog because others do. Don’t blog because others do it better. Blog because you want to. …
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deadline by mira grant
I read {{Feed}} (review) a few weeks ago, and just finished the 2d installment in {{Mira Grant}}’s {{Newsflesh}} trilogy, {{Deadline}}. The frenetic pace of book 1 was upped a level in book 2 (along with some more language). Mira is a fantastic author, and I cannot wait to read {{Blackout}} (it’s on my library queue). …
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feed by mira grant
After some time of not reading fiction, I saw {{Mira Grant}}’s {{Feed}} recently in a store, checked my local library, and reserved a copy. Now I need to read {{Deadline}} and {{Blackout}}. Grant’s writing, while typically female in style (first person dialog – both inner and outer, and the main character is a girl), does …
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organizational knowledge capture, retention, and dissemination
Knowledge capture, retention, and dissemination has been an interest of mine for a long time. I have written about various aspects of it before. The most vital commodity any organization has is the knowledge of its members – it does not matter if it is a historical society, company, church, or school: the organizational knowledge …
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bufferapp.com – schedule social media posts
I learned about bufferapp.com this week – finally a way to not overload Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc with posts – and put them in relevant venues easily. Thanks, Passive Panda.
why blog
There are myriad reasons to blog. However, the biggest reason should be because you want to. You feel there is something you need to share with others, and that the best way of doing that is via your blog. Maybe it’s a collection of recipes, maybe it’s a series of tutorials, maybe it’s mindless ramblings …
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