blogging

…is when your own website has been giving you so many problems lately. Yesterday I got a message from Google indicating some malicious code had been injected into my blog. It didn’t affect the way visitors saw it, but it was causing the search results to display in Japanese characters for some hotel if you […]

Posted on 11 March 2018 and filed under blogging

I’m writing late today because I’ve just restored my Wordpress install after I’m pretty sure an extension I installed to help me upgrade my site to https screwed up my htaccess file.
If that sentence doesn’t make sense to you, then it’s a pretty good demonstration of the problem of the internet becoming too complicated.

Posted on 28 February 2018 and filed under articles, blogging, how to

I’ve become too dependent on Twitter to expose me to smart people and smart writing.

Posted on 24 February 2018 and filed under blogging, social media, technology

I have started publishing my newsletter again. You can sign up here. So it has apparently been over a year since my previous letter went out, which was not a thing I intended to happen. I can tell you that in the intervening time I have still been writing, but looking back on it I’ve […]

Posted on 20 January 2018 and filed under blogging, letters, main, media

Who is allowed in to your space, and what are they allowed to say?

Posted on 30 November 2015 and filed under articles, blogging, Canada, Indigenous, main

Matt Gemmell: “Even a year ago, I obsessively checked my follower count on Twitter, and my site’s visitor stats. I looked through my referrers daily. That’s a path to unhappiness. You notice when people inevitably unfollow, and you see which articles are of niche rather than widespread interest. It gets you down, particularly because the […]

Posted on 22 December 2014 and filed under blogging, links, main, meta, outbound, social media

Twitter essays, tweet storms, blog posts, and middling thoughts.

Posted on 2 November 2014 and filed under articles, blogging, main, social media, writing

Working through problems in public.

Posted on 5 September 2014 and filed under blogging, comments, meta, personal