Thoughts about whether bloggers feel less inspired to create these days now that blogging seems all about numbers and not so much about thoughts and words.
You Change–Should Your Blog Change With You?
Last week I read Danny Brown’s post “1,000 Blog Posts Later–An Introspective” and it resonated with me on several levels–particularly the part about being fluid, and the part about it being ok to be wrong. When I started blogging about eight years ago, it was back when blogging was just a fun thing I liked […]
Blogging on Squarespace 6–Not for the Faint of Heart
While I love the look of my new website, I have to say that I’m sorely missing the any-idiot-can-use-it functionality of Google Blogger for blogging. Also, sort of kicking myself for lack of forethought about what kind of functionality I need from a website, as a person who really only needs a blogging platform. But […]
New Look, New Site
So for a while now (read: years) I’ve been thinking how crappy my blog looked and how I really needed to get off Blogger, but I just never wanted to take the time to actually create something better. Blogger was just so easy, with the widgets and the templates and these days I barely have […]
Is Feedburner Really Shutting Down?
If you’re reading this post via email subscription it most likely looks different that posts used to look. That’s because I’ve switched subscription services from Google Feedburner to Feedblitz, due, in part to freaking out over last week’s frenzy of speculation that Feedburner is shutting down after a glitch showed all follower counts to be at […]
Why Should Brands Only Date Bloggers? Because Nobody Likes a Schmoopie
As anyone who has read this blog over the past few years knows, I’m the kind of blogger who blogs because I love to write, not because I want to make money blogging. Not that there’s anything wrong with bloggers who do it for the money or the swag or whatever other incentive…more power to […]
What Does a Washington Post Blogger Resigning Say About the State of Digital Publishing?
While reading Sunday’s Washington Post, I came across the headline “The Post fails a young blogger.” This should be interesting, I thought, and read it. It was not only interesting but scarily familiar to me. The article describes how the Post blogger responsible for blogPost just resigned because of the no-win nature of her job. Her […]
If This is What Being an A-List Blogger is, I’m Happy to be on the D List
I swore I wouldn’t write about this and send traffic to her blog, because that’s the last thing I want to do. But I can’t stop thinking about it and feel stupid for being so affected by something written by a person I don’t even know–or at least barely know (I did meet her once). […]
Blogging and Busy-ness
I love writing, which is why I love blogging. Which is why it makes me sad when life gets too busy to keep up with this blog, let alone my personal “fun” blog. When I started blogging over six years ago, it was for pure enjoyment. Nobody read it…well, except my mom. My job at […]
Blogcation 2011
It’s that time again….blogcation. As usual, instead of scheduling a week’s worth of posts to run while I’m gone (ok, who am I fooling…if I blog once a week these days I’m doing well) here are a few posts from the past six months that you may have missed the first time around: Why I’m […]