I did a short blog series a while back, about things I was wrong about. One of these, inevitably, was the democratisation of social media. I won’t rehash the reasons why I was wrong about it, but it came to mind again last week during an excellent talk by Bonnie Stewart on Reclaim TV. Bonnie set out her blogging journey, and how it played into her PhD and recent work at UHI.| The Ed Techie
These are notable posts from 2025, roughly presented in descending order, starting with the post that got the most views. Is there a competitive threat to the NBA? Mike Makowsky wrote, “… le…| Economist Writing Every Day
As part of Reclaim Hosting’s “On Writing” series, I had a chat with Jim Groom about my 20 years of blogging. You can see the recording here. Kudos to Jim for this series by the way, it’s fascinating to hear people like Kate Bowles talk about the role that writing plays in her life. In preparation for the chat, I tried to impose a series of phases on my blogging life. You can always slice these things different ways, but here is the one I came up with, which we talk about in the video:...| The Ed Techie
I took part in a Reclaim Hosting session as part of the blogging community yesterday. Maren ran the session on How to Get Your Blogging Mojo Back and Lee Skallerup Bessette gave a fascinating talk on her blogging history. One topic she raised was a thorny one that many of us have wrestled with in the blogging area. And that is, whether to have specialised blogs or an all-encompassing one. Lee talked about how she had established different blogs for swimming, knitting as well as ed tech. Jim G...| The Ed Techie
I’m excited to announce my new podcast, The Science of Creativity! I interview leading creativity experts and authors, and I tell stories of famous inventions. I publish twice a month. The la…| The Creativity Guru
I’m back from Manifest, a conference on prediction markets, forecasting, and the future. It was an incredible chance to hear from many of my favorite writers on the internet, along with the C…| Economist Writing Every Day
Over the last few years, I’ve moved my internet life from web2 to web3 and rarely use any web2 services anymore. So I am starting a series called “I’ve Moved Onchain” to explain this journey to everyone and today’s opening post is about blogging, naturally. I’ve blogged at AVC.com for a very long time. I […]| AVC