social media
I find the Don’t Read The Comments movement kind of sad. In 2006 I said that a blog without comments is not a blog and I stand behind that statement. There have been brief periods where my own blog has been temporarily without comments, but they will always come
blogging
In 2007, I was offered $120,000 to buy this blog outright. I was sorely tempted, because that’s a lot of money. I had to think about it for a week. Ultimately I decided that my blog was an integral part of who I was, and who I eventually
ego
We may kid ourselves into thinking we’re writing out of some sense of public good, or to create connections, or contribute some small bit of knowledge to the world. But let’s face it. Most of us blog because we’re raving egomaniacs. We not only love to hear
programming languages
Are you familiar with the term “meta”? It permeates many concepts in programming, from metadata to the <meta> tag. But since we’re on a blog, let’s use blogging to explain what meta means. If you’ve read this blog for any length of time you’ve
blogging
Emrah Diril recently asked me this via email: Steve Yegge mentioned in the comments of his last post that he gets quite a bit of hate directed his way. Fake51: you underestimate the ability of people to get mad. Some people start mad and just take it out on you.
programming languages
I seldom pause to answer criticism of my blog. If I did, I’d have time for little else in the course of the day, and no time for constructive work. But occasionally I’ll encounter a particularly well written critique that gives me pause, such as Alastair Rankine’s
user experience
I miss Kathy Sierra. Kathy was the primary author of the Creating Passionate Users blog, which she started in December 2004. Her writing was of sufficient quality to propel her blog into the Technorati top 100 within a year and a half. That’s almost unheard of, particularly for a
blogging
Anil Dash has been blogging since 1999. He’s a member of the Movable Type team from the earliest days. As you’d expect from a man who has lived in the trenches for so long, his blog is excellent. It’s well worth a visit if you haven’t
blogging
Always Be Jabbing. Always Be Shipping. Always Be Firing. It’s the same advice, stated in different ways for different audiences. My theory is that lead generation derives from Google rank and that the best way to increase Google rank is to be like a professional fighter: neither jabs nor
.net
A few friends and I just wrote a book together: The ASP.NET 2.0 Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks. I met K. Scott Allen, Jon Galloway, and Phil Haack through their excellent blogs. That online friendship carried over into real life. We always thought it’d be
blogging
I started out in early 2004 as a blog skeptic. But over the last four years, I’ve become a born-again believer. In that time, I’ve written almost a thousand blog entries, and I’ve read thousands upon thousands of blog entries. As a result, I’ve developed some
blogging
Jakob Nielsen’s “Write Articles, Not Blog Postings” is highly critical of so-called commodity bloggers. As you might imagine, it wasn’t received well by the blog community. Robert Scoble’s stereotypical reaction was perhaps the worst of the bunch. In a legendary display of narcissism, Robert assumes the article