Tag Archives: blogging about blogging

Blogging on Blogging

Posted on October 28, 2016 by Meg

And you’re not even getting paid for it? And there are only three or four people watching, and two of them are snickering behind their hands? Continue reading →

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Thoughts On The Yelp Millennial Thing

Posted on February 25, 2016 by Meg

Did you see the Open Letter To My CEO, about a starving (well, kinda starving, we’ll get to that) young Yelp employee? On one hand, YES. Rent is insanely high. Especially in cities, which is where job opportunities are. Entry-level jobs … Continue reading →

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There Is No TBR List

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Meg

There are a lot of annual reading challenges going around now, like reading 52 books this year, or reading more works by female authors. (My personal reading challenge is to write and post more reviews of what I’m reading, and to remember who recommended … Continue reading →

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Impostor Syndrome, Yet Again

Posted on September 25, 2014 by Meg

A number of days ago, I went to a, um, thing…. about blogging and, um, stuff for bloggers…. which was held at… a local place. Ugh. I’m trying to stay vague about the event because I had some good conversations with a … Continue reading →

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Blog Birthday

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Meg

April makes ten years that I’ve been blogging, which is longer than I’ve done just about anything. I even blogged from behind the Great Firewall of China for two of those ten years. In honor of my decade writing my … Continue reading →

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Splitting The Page

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Meg

Among my writing and site editing friends, there are some differing opinions on the split-page article layout. Some people think a long article should be split up into several pages, with a link to the next page at the bottom,  … Continue reading →

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Hockey Stick Growth

Posted on May 30, 2011 by Meg

One of the speakers at TechCrunch Disrupt was David Karp from Tumblr, who was talking about “hockey stick growth”, massive increases in the users and site traffic. I thought it would be hilariously meta to take a picture from the … Continue reading →

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But Honestly Monica

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Meg

Like every other freelancer, I’ve heard from editors that they never pay the writers or that I should be happy to get the exposure and portfolio clips. Unfortunately for Monica, she heard this after her piece was grabbed off her … Continue reading →

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Bye Bloglines

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Meg

So my feedreader, Bloglines, is closing at the end of the month.  I’m sad to see it go, I’ve been using it since Ryan from The Humanaught introduced me to Bloglines in 2005, as a way to get round the … Continue reading →

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Reading List

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Meg

A few weeks ago, Harold and I exchanged tweets (why is there no convenient usage for this?) about reading selections, and how revealing a reading list can be. My choices right now are skewed towards travel (No surprise that I … Continue reading →

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