Posts with tag: blogging
Does Twittering mean you blog less? The answer might surprise you.
The other Twitter-related post I’ve been wanting to write lately regards the correlation between the decline of “regular” blogging (which I’m now referring to as macroblogging), and microblogging (specifically, Twittering). Ask anyone with a blog that also spends time Twittering, and they’ll likely tell you that as their microblogging has gone up, their macroblogging has [...]
The era of “all press is good press” is so very over
I’ve had innumerable conversations with friends and colleagues over the years who’ve somehow felt burned by name-your-publication; nowadays even non-celebrities can (and often do) live with a cloud over their head on the internet — and I think if there’s any one truism about the intersection of publicity and online media, it’s that the era [...]
Doogie Howser: kid, doctor, original blogger
We were at the “Bloggers who made it” panel at SXSW today, when a revelatory moment came up during Q&A. We all knew Doogie was a forerunner in the burgeoning field of children-doctors, but few remember that he was actually the first blogger way back in ‘89. Seriously, way ahead of his time.
I'm an editor and technology critic in the midst of founding a new web startup: 