Category Archives: Create Your Own Blog

It isn’t starting a book that’s hard, it’s contining to write it

Book Three is starting to gel, but it’s been a tough few nights of writing to get to this place. See, I don’t find starting a book hard, it’s after I have the first 2 or 3 chapters written that … Continue reading

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Automattic updated the native WP client for iPhones, etc…and wow you can paste on the iPad now! Cut-and-paste now behaves as expected on the iPad. [#438] [From WordPress for iOS › WordPress Version 2.5 for iOS] Wow. When will the … Continue reading

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Boing Boing Confirms: You Can’t Please Everyone When It Comes to Comments

Close on the heels of my commentary on Daring Fireball’s commenting brouhaha—Without Comments, A Site Is…—Boing Boing has their take on it. In addition to their solid arguments (I’d say they fall into the “it’s your blog, do what you … Continue reading

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Without Comments, A Site Is…

One of the most common questions I’m asked about blogs and blogging is how to manage comments. My stance has always been that it’s your living room, so your rules apply. I haven’t really thought about not having comments at … Continue reading

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4 Reasons I Enjoy Writing Books & Why I’ll Keep Doing It

Over the weekend my friend Derek Miller asked me (and several other authors he knows): If you’ve published a book, why, and how’d it go? which isn’t an unusual question for authors. I sometimes I wonder when people ask me … Continue reading

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The site formerly known as A View from the Isle

Fine, I give I’m changing the name of the site. I know that I don’t live on an island anymore. I used to, really: Salt Spring Island 2000-2005 Pender Island 2005-2006 Vancouver Island (Victoria) 2006-2008 I moved to Vancouver in … Continue reading

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Wired Creates an iPad App and Brings the Digital Revolution to Magazines

Wired Magazine announced their iPad app today to want can only be called “great fanfare” among the geek set. From Chris Anderson’s post on the web version of the site: The arrival of the tablet represents a grand experiment in … Continue reading

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Holy crap, I haven’t posted in a week! Do I suck as a blogger?

I guess I’ve been busy lately. Haven’t been posting (or tweeting) much, at least publicly. So does this mean that I suck as a blogger? One of the most common questions I’m asked when I’m talking about or teaching blogging … Continue reading

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WordPress-powered Blogs Poised to Own Google Search Results

There were two semi-related bits of news yesterday that have the potential to give WordPress-powered blogs even more of an edge in Google search rankings. Two small changes that are going to change how we find and use information, and … Continue reading

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Is there a perfect blog editor? Does anyone care if there is?

Very soon after I started blogging, I started using a blog editor to power up my blogging (and prevent the “aiiigghhh I lost my connection and my post!!!!” which was very common at conferences, still is actually). In those days … Continue reading

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It’s Your Community Stupid

Your ever wonder how people keep blogging for years? Decades? It isn’t because these people just never run out of things to say. Okay, maybe some of them don’t ever run out of things to say, but for the most … Continue reading

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