Blogs and Blogging: The 10 Most Important Ideas of 2003
There are some good observations collected in this article - but there should be, it's a list of the best ideas related to blogging in 2003. At the very least, it will give you some jargon - the "power law", the "tipping point". More...

Time Savers for Bloggers
It has been a constant with me, ever since I was writing on sheets of paper on an old Underhill typewriter (I have been writing for a long time). One page: fifteen minutes. 250 words. A thousand words in an hour. First draft - everything is first draft; I don't rewrite anything. I use almost all of Pollard's tips, everything, in fact, except proper typing. More...

Weekend Reading – Rediscovering Blogging Edition
Lee Skallerup Bessette, Chronicle of Higher Education, 2018/08/10

This short article summarizes four posts from other writers describing how social media (and Facebook in particular) has failed to replicate the idea of the feed as "sustenance" that "nourished critical minds." Here they are:

• Dan Cohen on going Back to The Blog and Going Indie on Social Media
• Mark Sample with Facebook Killed the Feed
• Kathleen Fitzpatrick with Connections along with Feeds and Gardens
• Chris Aldrich responding to Kathleen
• And Mike Caulfield's 2015 post The Garden and The Stream.

These writers, and a number of others, are all part of a new wave of indieweb proponents, and I make sure to follow them and keep up on their work. More...

Running on Autopilot
Via Seb comes this thought provoking post about the changes blogging brings to people. Notice that it's as much about reading as writing, so do take the time to follow the links. More...

Where Have All the Bloggers Gone?
Alan Levine observes that "My RSS reader stays pretty grey these days. Many of the past everyday reads of edubloggers seems to have sputtered out." Quite so, and this was to be expected. As Levine comments, "it takes a major sort of OCD behavior to keep at this." Blogging isn't for everybody, it isn't even for most people. More...

'Blogs in Education' Roundtable Discussion Topics
Lots of activity at the University of British Columbia these days. This item from Scott Leslie points to a useful summary of two roundtable discussion topics along with some links to examples of uses of blogs in education. More...

Blogs, Learning Objects and Other Cool Stuff!
Long delayed (because I kept intending to add more content, but never did), an MS Word document and associated PowerPoint Slides from my preconference workshop at NAWeb 03. Sorry if it ends a little abruptly. More...

Weblog Spam
I have tried to convince bloggers that push-style APIs (such as ping, trackback, and the like) are the wrong way to go, without much success. Some early spam seemed to vindicate me, but then came the anti-spam manifesto and a new blacklist. Round one for the bloggers, right? No. More...