Blogging
Sep. 2, 2010
Tumblng
Tumblr is having a moment. A big profile in the Times, a lot of buzz in the geekier precincts of the interwebs, phenomenal growth (the service adds 25,000 new accounts daily). For the uninitiated, Tumblr is a platform for “short-form blogging,” meaning that a “tumblelog” is a blog with very short posts, usually a single, [...]
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Jun. 21, 2010
Work, work, work
No blogging this week. I’m off to finish writing my book. See you on the other side. Image: Frank Chimero, “10 Principles That May Make Your Work Better Or May Make It Worse”
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May. 23, 2010
Bloggiversary
Yesterday was the first anniversary of this blog, which went up on May 22, 2009. As I’ve written here before, I doubt that the blog will generate significant book sales, which was why I started doing it, but I’ve come to enjoy blogging for its own sake and I’ve made a few new friends in [...]
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Mar. 12, 2010
A Facelift
This site has gotten a little makeover this week. Since I launched my blog last May, I have been fiddling with the design nonstop, trying to come up with something that suits me. I haven’t found the perfect fit yet, but this update moves me a little closer. Here is what I’m after. To me, [...]
Tags: graphic design · web design · williamlanday.com
Feb. 5, 2010
Stock and Flow
From a blog called Snarkmarket, sorting the 2010 web using economic principles: There are two kinds of quantities in the world. Stock is a static value: money in the bank, or trees in the forest. Flow is a rate of change: fifteen dollars an hour, or three-thousand toothpicks a day. Easy. … But I actually [...]
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Dec. 16, 2009
Dickens vs. the Snarks
To a reader, Dickens absorbs, the web distracts.
Tags: Charles Dickens · featured posts · Little Dorrit
Aug. 21, 2009
Why authors should (and shouldn’t) blog
Blogging will probably never help me sell books, but to me it’s worth doing anyway.
Tags: bookselling · featured posts · writing life · writing tips
May. 26, 2009
When Every Writer Is a Publisher
Seth Godin: today everyone is a writer, and every writer can publish on the web. What’s needed now is a publisher, newly redefined as someone who helps us publish profitably.
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May. 22, 2009
The Way We Write Now: Novelists and Their Blogs
Why I reluctantly started blogging, after years of resisting. (This is the first post I ever wrote for this blog.)
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