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Google+ Isn’t Shutting Down, But It Will Be Retasked For Enterprise Use

8 October, 2018 // 6 Comments

It's been pretty obvious for a while now that Google's social network has been so completely abandoned by the public that its remaining users, Google employees, could use it to share sensitive [Read More ...]

Gutenberg Will be Released with WordPress 5.0 on 19 November – Here’s What You Need to Do

6 October, 2018 // 11 Comments

We have known for the past 18 months that Gutenberg was going to one day change just about every aspect of running a WordPress site from publishing posts to designing pages. As I explained a couple [Read More ...]

Guest Post: 7 Reasons Authors Should Be on Holonis

24 September, 2018 // 14 Comments

Join the #holoauthor family No matter what type of business you’re in, nothing is more important to personal brand than storytelling. No one knows that more than us authors. A good story helps our [Read More ...]

The Digital Reader is Now on Instagram and Pinterest

14 September, 2018 // 9 Comments

It belatedly occurred to me this evening that I've never announced that I've expanded my bloging to include Pinterest and Instagram. As a result of an epiphany about blogging I had a few weeks back, [Read More ...]

Instapaper is Charging for Premium Once More – The Free Ride is Over

7 August, 2018 // 0 Comments

One of the first things that Pinterest did when it bought Instapaper from Betaworks 2 years ago was to make Instapaper's premium service free for all users. Now that Instapaper is independent (and [Read More ...]

Gutenberg, WordPress, & You: the What, the Why, and the How

6 August, 2018 // 3 Comments

If you have a WordPress site, chances are you have heard of something called Gutenberg. You could have seen one of the posts written about it over the past 18 months (such as mine), or you may have [Read More ...]

Come Join my Facebook Group

5 August, 2018 // 1 Comment

I've mentioned this in various places on social media, but I don't think I've announced on the blog that I officially launched my Facebook group last month. It's called The Help Desk, and it's a [Read More ...]

Twitter Will lock Your Account If You Change the Display Name to “Elon Musk”

26 July, 2018 // 4 Comments

I just found a 100% effective way to cut back on my time wasted on Twitter. In what is very likely a response to scammers impersonating the South African billioniare, Twitter is now automatically [Read More ...]

No One Wants to Own Instapaper

17 July, 2018 // 9 Comments

Originally launched by Marco Arment as an iPhone app, the save for later service Instapaper was sold to Betaworks in 2013, who then sold it to Pinterest in 2016. Now Instapaper is being spun out as [Read More ...]

How to Tell How Many Followers You Lost in the Great Twitter “Purge” of 2018

13 July, 2018 // 3 Comments

In what is being widely mis-characterized as a purge of fake users, earlier this week Twitter started removing "locked" accounts from the follower counts belonging to active user. According to [Read More ...]

Do You Still RSS?

11 July, 2018 // 67 Comments

The fifth anniversary of the passing of Google Reader went largely unremarked in most circles, but there was some coverage on Techdirt and other sites (Wired even called for a revival of RSS). RSS [Read More ...]

Goodreads’s New Android App is Faster, Smaller, and Also Makes Julienne Fries

26 June, 2018 // 1 Comment

Following several weeks of public beta testing, Goodreads has launched a new Android app. Try the new Explore page, where you can browse books trending on Goodreads, new releases hot off the presses, [Read More ...]

Making Your Own Custom Facebook and Twitter Share Links/Buttons for Beginners

14 May, 2018 // 2 Comments

Share buttons for social media such as Facebook and Twitter are a great way to grow your audience organically and let your readers support your work by sharing it their social media networks. The [Read More ...]

Thirty Minutes a Day is All It Takes to Automate Your Social Media Activity, But I Don’t Recommend it

23 April, 2018 // 6 Comments

As I am sure you know, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all your work done. This is why we are always looking for new ways to automate tasks. Sometimes, however, the automation is [Read More ...]

I’m Leaving Twitter

12 April, 2018 // 29 Comments

The problem with Twitter is that the folks who run the show don't understand their userbase or their product. We can see this in how Twitter's more useful features such as hashtags and quote retweets [Read More ...]