This evening I spent an hour subbing one piece of copy for The Linc’s website. Not because it was spectacularly bad, but because the HTML formatting was just horrendous.
The solution basically involved me having to go through and strip all the existing HTML code from the article and replace it with stuff that actually made [...]
Recently I wrote about how the Lincoln School of Journalism was still getting it wrong when it came to blogging — something I’d already pointed out during the summer.
In the comments on that post, Dave Lee wrote: “Blogging – and online journalism as a whole – at Lincoln has been seriously lacking.” I can personally [...]
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 wrote recently about the last two articles that would go up on The Linc’s website in 2009. In it, I included some statistics: since September 14th there were 225 articles posted, of which 95 were news.
The sheer number absolutely amazes me. But I am greatly saddened when I take a look at the online [...]
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 [...]
