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A personal blog beats any social network
Elon Musk buys Twitter As the news on Elon Musk buying Twitter has blown up today, people are looking for alternatives to the bird app. I know a lot of people have moved to Mastodon (including myself), and while it’s a fantastic alternative, it still doesn’t beat blogging. It’s a similar story for Instagram. As…
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Long Live Blogging!
Blogging will never die! My opinion on this is blogging will never die. It’s a long-lived and proven way to express ourselves, and it won’t be going anywhere any time soon. It’s outlived social networking, and will carry on for as long as we keep on writing online. Maybe blogging will evolve into new names,…
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Medium bloggers are all the same now
Medium used to be a decent place to read articles I feel like Medium had a good variety of bloggers at one point. I could get some financial advice, maybe some world news and a heap of self-help articles. I also used it for tech and programming, and it was a great place for a…
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If someone gave you enough money to not work full-time for a year. What would you do?
Asking this question on Twitter I asked this question on Twitter which proved to be a popular question. Which made me think, would my blog followers have a different answer? Which is why I brought this over to you, and want to ask… If someone gave you enough money to not work full-time for a…
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300 Blog posts
It’s not a lot, 300 blog posts over 12 years is 15 posts per year This is my 300th blog post, which to many people, it won’t be a lot. Especially over the period of 12 years, that’s around 15 blog posts a year. Which is nothing really. However, it has been a journey, and…
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Tending to your digital garden aka blog
Where did Digital Garden come from? I saw the term “digital garden” coined by Joel Hooks. The phrase “digital garden” is a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting “showpiece” and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there. Joel Hooks Christopher Biscardi has a…
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My blog has reached over 100,000 views and I’m excited
Listen to the podcast episode Yesterday, I found out my blog has reached over 100,000 views, I’m over the moon. This milestone has taken 11 years, but that’s 11 years of on/off posting. To some, this may seem like a small achievement. However, to me, it’s a huge milestone and one I will cherish forever.…
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Blogging as a social network
Ever thought about creating your own social network or escaping the usual suspects? You can build your own with zero knowledge.
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Coil Blogging Review
Coil is looking to standardise web monetisation. Think Medium, but for every website, including yours. How does that work? You may ask. First, you sign up and use a crypto wallet such as Uphold, and then they give you a little tag that you can place on your website. You can also connect to platforms…
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The 100 + 20 rule
Every professional content creator faces a dilemma. On the one hand, you’d love to make your content as widely available as possible in order to grow your audience. On the other hand, you need to make money to pay the bills, so it’s unavoidable to add some friction in the form of paywalls, ads, and…