Part of what drove me to create LSJ bloggers in the first place was the stupid approach the Lincoln School of Journalism took to introducing students to blogging. I’ve argued that it does nothing to create interest, and at best just serves to familiarise students with the tools.
An academic year later, and it doesn’t look [...]
It’s been over a month since I put LSJ bloggers into hiberation, and as the new year approaches I’m considering what to do next with it. The initial response was incredibly poor, with very few people contributing — only about a third of the people who submitted links to their blogs got involved in some [...]
At the start of September I switched from WordPress to Tumblr for hosting my website. At the time it made sense. Tumblr is far simpler to use, and makes it incredibly easy to share all sorts of stuff.
But it lacks some stuff that WordPress does really well. With Tumblr your posts aren’t the focus — [...]
I’ve just wrapped up the first topic for LSJ bloggers, and I’ve been thinking about what went well, and what did not.
I was far too optimistic for how many people would get involved. Quite a few (but still few) people emailed their blog addresses and/or followed @LSJbloggers on Twitter.
That did not translate into actually suggesting [...]
The very short answer is that I’m convinced that it is the best blogging platform for the vast majority of people. That’s why I use it here, on my own site.
The longer, more detailed answer is that it does everything I need it to do.
Static pages are achieved by linking to a post. Ending posts [...]
