Stephen Fry once said, I’ve never seen a smartphone I haven’t bought. My vice is writing apps. Actually it’s all writing technologies – I’m the same about notebooks, pens, typewriters, pencils, writing slopes, dictionaries and style guides. Always have been – but apps most of all, because it is on screens that most of my writing…… Continue reading Another writing app
Tag: blogging
Blogging on Ghost
So after failing completely to set up a Ghost blog on a server (not very technical, me) the hosted version is now available. Hurrah! I’ve tried it out and set up a blog. It will be about running and will hopefully let me try out the platform and spare readers of this one endless details…… Continue reading Blogging on Ghost
A useful IFTTT recipe for blogging
A really useful piece of advice from Adam Tinworth about blogging is this: bring the inspiration or desire to blog as close as possible to actually blogging. This sounds obvious, but over time all sorts of tools and steps in the process can get added. Consequently, I have an Evernote notebook full of links to…… Continue reading A useful IFTTT recipe for blogging
Maria Popova and life as “a reader who writes”
When I look at Maria Popova and her work on Brainpickings, I feel admiration, inspiration and a little jealousy. She takes something that is important to me – blogging, writing and the collecting of fascinating things – to a logical extreme, making a profession of it. She’s made a life and living out of sharing…… Continue reading Maria Popova and life as “a reader who writes”
Short blog post tips from @adders
Adam's response to my response as it were, has two super-practical principles for getting short blog posts written: Connect the thought “that's interesting” with the action of writing the blog post as closely as you can. Don't leave tabs mouldering in your browser, don't leave draft posts in your drafts folder. Get it done, and…… Continue reading Short blog post tips from @adders
A couple of Brilliant (Noise) posts…
Blogging seems to be the order of the day for me at the moment – which, as ever, I’m delighted about – and some of the action is happening over at Brilliant Noise blog. If you’re not following that feed, you may be interested in these two posts from this week – I enjoyed writing…… Continue reading A couple of Brilliant (Noise) posts…
This blog
One slightly unexpected but pleasant surprise for me in the launch of the new Brilliant Noise was how energising I found it to have the new website and its blog go live. Developed with craft and care by Endless and Brighton’s patron-saint-of-Wordpress David Lockie, the site looks and feels right. But it’s what’s to come…… Continue reading This blog
Categories, shmategories…
I haven’t ever seen the point in categories for my blog before now (I’m still not sure I do). But making a virtue out necessity and ignorance, I can’t turn off the category thing in the theme I am using for this blog and rather than having it jarringly state “UNCATEGORIZED” in the byline for…… Continue reading Categories, shmategories…
Finding scraps of surplus…
Clay Shirky’s Cognitive Surplus is a fascinating and attractive idea, but unless you are a student, idle, rich or all three, there may not be a surplus of energy at all. As Ian Delaney put it in his post “Looking for my cognitive surplus”: So yes, cognitive surplus. Wonderful notion. And when most people?s working…… Continue reading Finding scraps of surplus…
Normal service will return in the Autumn
OK, I’ve been a bad blogger. It’s been an odd month or so, and may stay odd for some time. It’s been hard enough blogging more or less holding down a full-time-plus-any-other-waking-time-you-might-have-lying-around job. Not to mention my family and a new addiction to mountain biking. But most of all, I’m the final phase of finishing…… Continue reading Normal service will return in the Autumn
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