Another writing app
Tweet 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...
Tag: blogging
Blogging on Ghost
Tweet 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...
A useful IFTTT recipe for blogging
Tweet 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 bloggi...
Maria Popova and life as “a reader who writes”
Tweet 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 ...
Short blog post tips from @adders
Tweet Adam's response to my response as it were, has two super-practical principles for getting short blog posts written: Connect the thought “that&#...
A couple of Brilliant (Noise) posts…
Tweet 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 happeni...
This blog
Tweet 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 it...
Categories, shmategories…
Tweet 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,...
Finding scraps of surplus…
Tweet 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 surp...
Normal service will return in the Autumn
Tweet 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 h...