Muskblog: Homesteading the Internet since 1995

I’ve given and collected a lot of advice on how to improve your writing particularly online. That advice is spread over a number of different posts some of which get read, others go unheeded. While updating one of these old posts today I decided to collect the best of the best tips and links together [...]

I’ve been unemployed for too long. There are obviously reasons for this, but if I had all the answers, I wouldn’t be unemployed now would I? I try to shore up my weaknesses and leverage my strengths. I spend a lot of time online reading ‘expert’ advice on what to do and what not to [...]

I’m currently reading “Rework” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, the founders of 37signals. I haven’t quite finished the book but the following excerpt seemed relevant to my posts of late and my current predicament: Hire great writers If you are trying to decide among a few people to fill a position, hire the [...]

Notice I wrote “self publishing” not “blogging”, the world wide web always had the concept of self publishing and user created content. Everyone was supposed to learn HTML and have a home page. It is only with the rise of blogging, social media, and various web services that self publishing has become so easy that [...]

A day doesn’t go by when someone doesn’t tweet another posting on how to blog better, or how important it is to blog, or the power of social networks in building a brand, or…  You get the picture. Most of this advice isn’t new and it doesn’t even get right down to what is really [...]