2014
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Surfacing Legacy Content
Jul 12
Would you be more or less likely to read a site that interspersed timeless legacy yet still-relevant content amongst it’s “latest posts” feed?
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Rethinking Email Subscriptions
Jul 9
For the past several months, I’ve been very happily using Jetpack’s email subscription system to power notifications on this site. There has to be a better way.
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Why Comments Matter
Jun 30
Comments are just as valuable as the original article, post, thought, rant that inspired them. Comments matter immensely, and there are several reasons why.
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Regional Publication
Jun 21
When do you read blogs? Does the time at which a daily blog publishes its content matter to your readership?
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What Comes Next?
May 27
Publishing has come a long way in the past few years. Seeing the evolution from print to digital, I continue to ask, “what’s next?”
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Stories and Bias
May 10
I think that a somewhat anonymous literature anthology would be an interesting experiment.
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What Constitutes a Publisher?
Mar 25
A colleague recently pointed me to an interesting article about content publishing and web intents. The article led to some interesting discussions.
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… The Universe will Provide
Mar 18
If you hold something to be a guiding truth, you need to live by it at all times. If you can’t live by it, then it must not be a truth.
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Transparent Monetization
Mar 2
I started blogging daily on this domain to build a platform. To build a place where my voice – professional and creative – could reach the world. I want to begin monetizing this platform, and I need your help and feedback to make it work.
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By The Numbers
Mar 1
According to the analytics, I had only 9,000 repeat visitors last year (which was 17% of my traffic). So far this year I’ve had 17,000 repeat visitors. While this is only 19% of my traffic, it still represents a nearly 100% increase over the entirety of 2013!
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Does “The Fold” Still Matter
Jan 6
Does “the fold” still matter, or is this an outdated concept left over from the days of print media? In many ways, the answer is “no” because the web is a very different place than print. But in some ways, the answer is also a resounding “yes!”