Tag Archives: blogging

What are you doing, WordPress.com?

Posted on April 3, 2022 by

Be sure to check out the update at the bottom. I recently wrote that I’ve stuck with WordPress.com for so long, for all its purported limitations, because its features fully suffice the committed blogger whose content is textual for the most part … Continue reading →

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A nominal milestone

Posted on February 15, 2022 by

In 2018, I discovered that my blog posts since mid-2014 had taken on a somewhat different character than those before, becoming more critical and paralleling my increasing, and increasingly nagging, questions about what it means to be a journalist – … Continue reading →

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Reading books, writing words

Posted on January 1, 2022 by

It suddenly feels like a lot more people have been reading a lot more books. Or maybe they’re talking about it a lot more. I have one friend who went through more books in 2021 than there were weeks. And … Continue reading →

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13 years

Posted on April 2, 2021 by

I realised some time ago that I completed 13 years of blogging around January or March (archives on this blog go back to March 2012; the older posts are just awful to read today. The month depends on which post … Continue reading →

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Ending 2020

Posted on December 23, 2020 by

My blogging took a hit this year – as did everything for everyone. I couldn’t publish nearly as much as I’d have liked. While the average post length was the highest it’s ever been – 989 words – and audience … Continue reading →

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Tech bloggers and the poverty of style

Posted on November 24, 2020 by

I created my writing habit by performing it over a decade (and still continuing). When I first started blogging in 2008, I told myself I would write at least 2,000 words a week. By some conspiracy of circumstances, but particularly … Continue reading →

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Ending 2019

Posted on December 28, 2019 by

This blog achieved multiple minor but personally enjoyable milestones in 2019: It was read by people in 143 counties, the highest in a single year since 2008 (when I started blogging) It was the second busiest year by traffic (after … Continue reading →

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Fear and delight

Posted on October 4, 2019 by

Earlier this week, I published my 1,100th blog post on this site. It hasn’t been a long and great journey because it hasn’t been a journey, per se, at least I haven’t seen it as one. After publishing each blog … Continue reading →

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Happy new year!

Posted on January 1, 2018 by

2017 was a blast. Lots of things happened. The world became a shittier place in many ways and better in a few. Mostly, Earth just went around the Sun once more, and from what we know, it’s going to be … Continue reading →

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