fighting the lack of good ideas
I maintain (to greater or lesser extents) 3 blogs currently: https://blog.warrenmyers.com https://paragraph.cf https://antipaucity.com I keep the first and last segmented so I can more easily find things I’ve written or reposted about Christianity, religion, and the Bible, and everything else. The middle one I keep to demo the WordPress plugin I wrote – Paragraph. But…
I want you to watch these 6 movies (in this order): The Wizard of Oz Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Night of the Living Dead (1968 edition) The Godfather Pi Inception Watch them with a notebook and pen or pencil handy (yes: use physical writing and recording tools; don’t use your laptop, tablet, or phone). Write…
Along with becoming more active on Mastodon, Â I’ve been thinking more about concision recently. One of the big selling points for Mastodon is that the character limit per post is 500 instead of Twitter’s 140. And I was thinking, “what if there was a way to force you to write better by writing less /…
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(*Though most people would call me an XXXL blogger.) Following in the steps of Dave Winer, I am now plogging (sorta) on Medium. And, like Mr Winer, I’m doing it via IFTTT (though not via RSS, I’m doing it via the WordPress channel). If you’d like to do the same, use this IFTTT recipe.
Wired Magazine recently had an article on the rise of “plogging“. By their definition, “plogging” is “PLatform blOGGING” – or blogging as part of a network/site/service (DZone, LinkedIn, Medium, Facebook, etc) instead of running your own blog somewhere (WordPress.com, Blogger, self-hosted WordPress, etc). This seems to be a modern representation of what newspapers, magazines, etc…
I’ve been attempting a “reactive”/”consumptive” reading experiment recently. The first book I tried it on was the Henry Petroski’s horrid To Engineer is Human (my review). That turned into a failure as I couldn’t stomach his writing, and so “reacting” to it was going to pretty much be an exercise in futility. So I’ve ditched…
In follow-up to a recent blog post shared to me by my friend Steven, thinking about my aunt’s old practices, and comments from my wife and another friend, I’m engaging in a “consumptive”/”reactive” reading experiment wherein I am going to do something I haven’t done in a non-workbook book since my time at HVCC –…