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    On Blogging

    I realised the other day that early this month marked the tenth anniversary of this blog. The quietude with which this anniversary slipped past belies the sizeable impact that blogging has actually had on my life. I began writing this blog at a time when the social web was really kicking off. At the time I…

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    Blogging and Lazy Endism

    As ever Adam, who is just so good at blogging, is on the money with his view on it too.  The fact that Andrew Sullivan has stopped writing a blog has led some to catch a nasty dose of lazy endism. But as Adam says, blogging has simply evolved (Medium, Tumblr et al), and so…

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    What Medium Is, What Is Medium?

    I've had an invite to write on Medium for a while but have chosen to keep my writing to here for now. But I do think that it's a fascinating platform and, one year after launch, it seems to be continuing to gain momentum. Quite apart from anything else, it's been notable the number of…

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    The Best Blog Posts of 2011

    Good writing and thinking should be celebrated. It's one of the main motivations behind doing Post Of The Month every month. So a good way to round off the year is with a list of my own favourite blog posts of 2011. In no particular order, here's my top ten: 1. How to Steal Like An…

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    Porous Paywalls

    This piece by Felix Salmon is the smartest post on paywalls I've read in a long time. In it, he talks about how the porousness of the NY Times paywall is a feature, not a bug: "It allows anybody, anywhere, to read any NYT article they like. That makes the NYT open and inviting —…

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