Category: Writing
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The Daily Maverick’s response to trolls
Shutting down comments won’t stop trolls from being trolls but it will force them out into other fora and deprive them of the opportunity to spoil an otherwise valiant enterprise.
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Hey IOL, it’s ok to link to Gareth Cliff’s blog post
IOL mentioned and quoted from Gareth Cliff’s blog post about his dismissal from M-Net’s “Idols” without the courtesy of a link to his blog post. This devalues his work and undermines the Web’s link economy. It is also not great journalism.
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How Instapaper could be an even better research tool
I love Instapaper. It is my “read it later” app and, increasingly, one of my favorite research tools too. I had an idea for how it can be better for research and thought I’d explain how.
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You gave up your rights to your writing
It turns out that, as an employee, you probably gave up your rights to your writing when you signed your employment contract. When I mean you gave up your rights, I mean all of them.
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Where are my words, dammit?
Argh! Why is it so difficult to keep writing? For someone who considers himself a writer (that would be me), I am consistently inconsistent about writing.
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Not just another WordPress vs everything else
I love that there are so many options for people who want to publish their words online these days. I was researching a topic for a blog post for the imonomy blog (I am employed by imonomy as a Content Marketing Specialist) and my colleague, Shirley Pattison (read her stuff, she writes about fascinating topics),…
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Like Bon Jovi for Medium
I think my writing career reached a milestone today. I was described as “Bon Jovi for Medium” because of my modest following there. I’m not quite sure what to do with that description (do I really seem that old?) but since I was a huge fan of the rock band when I was (much) younger,…
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Write something every day. #Fail
Conventional wisdom for writers is to write something every day. Many writers have given this advice. There are detractors, for example Cal Newport thinks this is terrible advice if you are not a full-time writer. I think I am more in the “write something every day” camp although I have failed miserably at doing that,…
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