Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

The other day I once again tried to pass on what is truly important if you want to have longterm success writing online. Whether you blog or not, whether you use Facebook or Twitter or some other niche social network, certain fundamental truths hold. Ninety percent of everything published online is crap. You have only [...]

Maybe I should create a Tumblog.  I thought about it, but created another blog over on WordPress.com.  I don’t follow many Tumblogs but there are one or two gems I’ve found and today one posted some pretty awesome animated gifs which are always popular with web surfers and bandwidth thieves.  One of the big problems [...]

As collected by me, curator of all things awesome.  Not only did I comb through a lifetime of quotations I’ve collected to bring you this top ten list.  I also made a web mashup out of a subset of the quotations I collected which you can play with. Pat MacDonald: Someone said a good song [...]

One of the points I didn’t hammer home enough yesterday was that the rise of social media has made the web either more of a meritocracy or more competitive or both. To that end there is one more point would be bloggers need to remember. People spread awesome. I don’t know who said it first, [...]