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...Continue reading
Category: Web Publishing
Gutenberg Will be Released with WordPress 5.0 on 19 November – Here’s What You Need to Do
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....Continue reading
Guest Post: 7 Reasons Authors Should Be on Holonis
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...Continue reading
The Digital Reader is Now on Instagram and Pinterest
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...Continue reading
Instapaper is Charging for Premium Once More – The Free Ride is Over
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...Continue reading
Gutenberg, WordPress, & You: the What, the Why, and the How
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...Continue reading
Come Join my Facebook Group
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...Continue reading
Twitter Will lock Your Account If You Change the Display Name to “Elon Musk”
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,...Continue reading
No One Wants to Own Instapaper
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...Continue reading
How to Tell How Many Followers You Lost in the Great Twitter “Purge” of 2018
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...Continue reading
Do You Still RSS?
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...Continue reading
Goodreads’s New Android App is Faster, Smaller, and Also Makes Julienne Fries
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...Continue reading
Thirty Minutes a Day is All It Takes to Automate Your Social Media Activity, But I Don’t Recommend it
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...Continue reading
I’m Leaving Twitter
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...Continue reading
Tech Tools for Authors #4: Social Media
Authors have to juggle a lot of balls in today’s book industry. Not only do they have to write that next book, they also have to market it, balance the...Continue reading
