blogging
Writing a lot, in a hurry
I’ve been known to bang out decent (and better-than-decent) work in a hurry. Like what? I’ve written 1,200 word articles in 45 minutes, and have on several occasions plowed through a week’s worth of blog posts (for three blogs) in just over an hour.
But all that pales in comparision to what Laura Spencer recently did. [...]
How I blog
Like many of you, I don’t have a lot of time on my hands. By day, I’m a partner in a technical writing consultancy. By night, I’m a partner in a technical communications consultancy. And a husband. And a father. And a freelance writer. And someone who contributes to three blogs. And finding the time [...]
Playing with a couple of blogging tools
Over the last few days, I’ve been test driving a couple of new (at least to me) blogging tools. The first is a Firefox extension called ScribeFire. This extension adds a word processor-like interface to Firefox for publishing post to blogging software and services like Blogger, WordPress, and Moveable Type. It’s really easy [...]
How to write a blog post (or anything else)
Marketing guru Seth Godin put together a short list of tips on how to write a blog post. The list contains eight deceptively simple bits of advice, but when you put them all together you should be able to (in Godin’s words) cause “the reader to look at the world differently all day long.”The great [...]