Posts which are about how I create this blog. Technology, design choices, … mostly ‘what’ and ‘how’ posts.
Blogs are different. There’s a presumption of informed mature decision making. I come out with a new book, I mention it and then we all move on. You’re smart. You can handle it.
~ Seth Godin from, https://seths.blog/2005/06/treating_people/
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You may have noticed that there’s nothing other than [what’s called] the “center well” on my blog.
Perhaps you have you wondered why that is?
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Warning, this post is so meta even this acronym…
This blog just had it’s first month with more than 10,000 page-views.
Wanna guess where most of my traffic comes from? Ok, sure, most of my traffic comes from the Goog. That’s trivial. But where does most of the non-goog traffic come from?
By a long measure too. Years and years of all the other social channels, nary a bump — deleted. Bookface? nary a bump… I think about 7 (s e v e n) people click through from Bookface.
I urge you to click over and join my growing email list before Facebook implodes entirely ;)
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Small b blogging is learning to write and think with the network. Small b blogging is writing content designed for small deliberate audiences and showing it to them. Small b blogging is deliberately chasing interesting ideas over pageviews and scale. An attempt at genuine connection vs the gloss and polish and mass market of most “content marketing”.
~ Tom Critchlow from, http://tomcritchlow.com/2018/02/23/small-b-blogging/
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…and of course, my having just linked to him is one the affect he’s talking about (among several others.)
Zooming out: This reminds me to get back to writing. Several months ago, I began an intentional hiatus from writing every day… and I really miss it. Hop to it, Craig!
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Meta: This is post number 1,001.
I’m glad I took the time to post this stuff. Aside from my obvious use as a soap-box, it’s a constant source of wonderful memories as I dredge up old, and capture new photography, as well as a place for me to ruminate.
Mmmmmmmmm, first use of ruminate.
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Just in case anyone is actually consciously paying attention to what I post: I’ve a bit of a backlog of things to post, and I’m making an effort to catch up. So there’s going to be something like a post a day, for like, well, 150 days or so…
:^P
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