Tag: blogging
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Permission to Write Stuff
Brendan Dawes grants bloggers permission to write... whatever they like: perhaps necessary in an age in which it can feel like you have to have a REASON to be a blogger (hint: you don't).
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Blogging with semantic insertions and deletions
Adapting your CSS can make semantically-enhanced /
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Regarding the Thoughtful Cultivation of the Archived Internet
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With 20+ years of kottke.org archives, I’ve been thinking about this issue [continuing to host old content that no longer reflects its authors views] as well. There are many posts in the archive that I am not proud of. I’ve changed my mind in some cases and no longer hold the views attributed to me … -
Fixing Social Media
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
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Still Blogging in 2017
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On a blog, I can write about blogging and whimsically toss in self-indulgent pictures of May’s budding azaleas.
I can end my career, right here, in a flash. I can rant about the perfidy and corruption of my local governing party, who I devoutly hope are about to be turfed … -
20 Years Of Blogging
Come next week, Dan will have been blogging for 20 years. A lightweight retrospective.
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How the Mom Internet became a spotless, sponsored void
Perspective | How the Mom Internet became a spotless, sponsored void (Washington Post) Gritty blogs have given way to staged Instagram photos.
A grinning toddler is bundled in a creamy quilted blanket and bear-eared hat. Next to him, an iPhone atop a wicker basket displays a Winnie-the-Pooh audiobook. The caption accompanying the Instagram shot … -
Explain...
Explain… (52 Reflect) I only fully relax when I’m in the countryside… I only relax when I'm in the countryside. It's not a convenient truth, especially when London is my home and one of the most exciting and eclectic cities in the world - not to mention one of the only places I've managed to …
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A Suitable Blog
Dan writes the 594,000th (surviving) word in his blog, making it longer than virtually every novel, and reveals that his family will be getting a little larger this year.
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A New Look
Dan redesigns the theme for scatmania.org, returning to sans-serif fonts and shades of blue... plus a few modern CSS features that he'd wanted to play with...
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Remembering December 2003
Back in July 2004, Dan lost a lot of his older blog posts during a server malfunction. Now and then, he finds time to recover some of this deleted posts; like today, when he managed to get back everything he wrote in December 2003.
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Instead Of Blogging...
In a declaration of 'blog bankruptcy', Dan lists all of the topics that he'd hoped to have blogged about during the last (very busy!) month, and gets on with writing about other things. He's been busy!
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On This Day In 2003
Today is the ninth birthday of Dan's blog on scatmania.org. Okay, okay, so he's actually been blogging in some form or another for almost four years longer than this, but it's still cool, however you look at it.
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Abnib Lives On
After receiving complaints, Dan goes back on his decision to let Abnib die, and revitalises it with a new lease on life as Abnib 7.0, for the benefit of those half-dozen people who still for some reason regularly use it.
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New Look, New Protocols
This website's been updated with a shiny new theme and an exciting (well, if you're a geek) new IPv6 address. Read more about the changes here and let Dan know what you think by leaving a comment.