Tag: publishing

  • Pretty pleased with my latest in-depth piece on ad blockers

    Pretty pleased with my latest in-depth piece on ad blockers

    I’ve been thinking about why people use ad blockers and paying attention to how publishers are responding to the ad blocker phenomenon. I spent almost 4 days researching and writing this article series (with borderline pneumonia to boot) and I am pretty pleased with it.

  • Not just another WordPress vs everything else

    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),…

  • Ghost of WordPress’ past

    Ghost of WordPress’ past

    I came across an almost inevitable comparison post between newer blog publishing platform, Ghost, and WordPress the other day. I like Ghost’s emphasis on Markdown and its simplicity. I also know that Nathan Jeffery uses Ghost for his blog and he enjoys using it. You probably guessed that I am a bit WordPress user and have…

  • Technopanic and bad laws

    Jeff Jarvis has covered German publishers’ efforts to prevent Google and other search engines (but mostly Google) from linking to their publications and quoting snippets of their content unless a Google pays for the privilege. These publishers seem to be ignoring the fact that Google sends a substantial amount of traffic to them in the…