An online notebook
John Naughton‘s Observer column on ten years of blogging is a delightful read: This openness to immediate criticism and/or rebuttal is another revolutionary aspect of blogging. What we are seeing, wrote Clay Shirky some years ago (available online at http://bit.ly/fkxik), is nothing less than the ‘mass amateurisation of publishing’. What’s happening is a radical shift … Keep reading
Whilst technically all you need is a blog and a browser to start blogging, there are some other bits of software you can use that make your life a little easier. Here’s a list of options for Mac users: 1. Skitch Easily my number one choice, this is a phenomenally useful tool, which I don’t … Keep reading
Twitter is quite a nice way into online publishing. It’s quick and easy to both contribute to, listen to others and expand your network of readers. However, I can imagine that, for quite lot of people, just using Twitter could rapidly get pretty limiting. It would be like only communicating with text messages, and never … Keep reading
DFID have launched a new blogging platform, with various members of the department who are based abroad telling their stories through a group blog. The site looks beautiful, which is perhaps to be expected when you consider that it was put together by arch government wordpresser Simon Dickson. Simon writes about the site: I can’t … Keep reading
One of the great about using a blog as a publishing platform is the flexibility of it. Every blog platform worth its salt has a editor built into it, a place online where you can type your stuff and hit ‘publish’ to get it out there onto the web. But there are many other ways … Keep reading