In the wake of my previous post and Gina’s PR blacklist that sprang from it, it seems like a good chunk of the PR industry is blogging about the things they should and shouldn’t be doing, but I’m not seeing a lot of practical real-world solutions that would work for bloggers getting pitched. All the […]
I know it’s a cliché as a blogger to complain about public relations flacks sending you giant PDFs and weekly emails on topics you don’t care about, but recently I noticed my tried and true polite email saying:
Please remove my email address from your PR lists.
Thanks,
Matt
totally stopped working. Turns out that a lot […]
Just testing out to see what broke in moving to WP 2.5…
update: amazingly enough, nothing broke, even a bunch of old plugins I still use.
I spent most of the weekend elbow-deep in weblog archives and templates, trying to update my site to MT 4.01 and WP 2.3.2 (the former required the latter to export/import). After several hours, I started looking at Expression Engine and Tumblr and even considered Blogger to run this site. After getting fed up with shortcomings, […]
A week or so ago, I ran into Dethroner in my web surfing and I was instantly hooked. There was attitude, great original tips, pointers to cool stuff I hadn’t seen anywhere else, and there was tons of it. I soon realized it was written by one of my favorite writers, longtime former editor of […]
I’ve been meaning to redesign this site for a while, to set aside more screen space for writing, both to make it easier to read longer pieces for readers but also to help me focus more on just plain old writing instead of all the other junk I used to keep here. As I sat […]
Seriously, the top of digg, delicious, reddit, and every other link aggregator seems to be clogged with Lists of Vital Things You Should Know.
After seeing dozens of them fly by every single day, I’m starting to think it’s just lazy headline writing that gets promoted up thanks to our nanosecond attention-span RSS readin’ latte […]
From an interview with Jason Kottke:
When I first started putting my thoughts online in the mid-90s, there was little about my life that I wouldn’t put online, but now it’s almost the opposite situation.
What he said.
A year or two ago I realized I didn’t really feel like sharing everything going on with my life […]
Lately I’ve been getting a steady stream of unsolicited bad marketing and PR mail. People promoting products are stooping to new lows in order to try and get legitimate weblogs to promote their clients for them. It’s fake viral buzz hidden behind whatever legitimacy a participating website can offer. I’ve seen the quality and cluefullness […]
I should have mentioned earlier that I’m helping edit Lifehacker this week, as a favor to Gina and Keith.
The last time I did it, I went a bit nuts writing a ton. For some reason I was motivated to get as many big posts in as possible. This time around, I’m busy with a thousand […]
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