The new Twitter alternative: Substack Notes
Contrasting the start of Twitter in 2006 and the start of Substack’s Notes in 2023
Writing
Keeping a development diary for each project
Do you ever use Markdown? In the past 2.5 years since I’ve been doing development work at Tribune, I keep a running log/diary/scratchpad of the progress and my thought process. I was keeping that as a doc in Google Drive. Now I’m writing it as plain text in Markdown format, so the log/diary/scratchpad is lighter. …
I have a problem with Evernote. I use it an archive, not as active in-progress writing.
When you write a blog post or a draft of something, where do you save it? I put all my blog posts into Evernote. It’s a great app to save documents and images. Having all my blog drafts together in one organized place is so handy. All the drafts are searchable. When you go to …
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Tweet or blog?
Do you find most your ideas end up on Twitter, because it’s much quicker than writing an entire blog post? I’ve certainly fell victim to that. To help myself blog more, I’m going to alter my tweeting procedure. Every time I have something I would like to tweet, instead of heading to Tweetdeck, I’m going …
Six ways to kill writer’s block
Looking for ideas to blog about? Would you like to have over 900 blog drafts in your queue? On my spudart blog I gave six tips on how to have a continuous flow of ideas for your writing: Keep ALL your blog drafts in one place. Read and comment on other blogs. Prune your reading list …
How to improve marginalia in Instapaper
Do you enjoy writing notes in the margins of books and articles? The quest for an online marginalia system continues with Instapaper. Instapaper offers the great service to export articles to their service. You can even highlight passages and leave comments on the article. However, your comments are buried underneath a blue word bubble. Here’s …
The device for writers who can’t focus
Combine a keyboard with an e-ink screen and you have a new writing tool, the Hemingwrite: The Hemingwrite is a minimalist digital typewriter for distraction free writing composition. It combines the simplicity of a typewriter with modern technology like an electronic paper screen and cloud backups to create the best possible writing experience. It is designed …
Why do people not comment on blogs? The psychology and historical reasons
Perplexing is that people can read something and not have anything to say. What are the historical and psychology causes? At the dawn of democracy, listening was primarily an active activity. People would debate each other. A statement would be made, the listener would respond. Communication was interpersonal. Peter Kreten states in his first draft …
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Lichtenstein painting handwritten notes
An Art Institute intern, Steve Schmitt, wrote a nice blog post about one of his favorite artworks in the Roy Lichentstein show now showing at the Art Insitute of Chicago. A lot has changed since the 1960s; within my Google calendar, all of the words look exactly the same. I still can tell through the subject …
Passionate about your column or about your topic?
Are you passionate about what you do? hexanine, an agency in Chicago, blogged, “Musing: Weave Passion into Business“: Our short musings on design, branding, business and the human condition. Sure, we all have to eat and pay the mortgage. But it’s easy to become a creative mercenary if you’re merely chasing lucrative markets or the …
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Writing on webpages is the future of the internet
I like writing comments right onto the screen of a webpage. This is the future of the internet. I want a browser where i can draw right onto the screen, and then take a screenshot and post it to any social media site. Right now it takes many leaps to write on a webpage. Screenshot …
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To understand your business, write a facebook ad
If you have a hard time figuring out what the story is for your product/company, try writing some facebook ads for your product/company. That will give you an idea of how to succintly describe your business in a way that captures the attention of your audience. Often we get caught up thinking about things in …
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