publishing

There was a time before WordPress when people published online. It was however a different time, though it was only a little more than a decade ago. When I started writing for Wired.com in 2002, there was something of a newspaper flow to the professional online publishing process. As a freelancer, I’d pitch a story to an editor, who’d take it to the morning meeting where it would then be debated. If I was lucky, I’d hear back with a word count, some guidance, and a deadline. I’d make multiple calls, wait for responses, and then file a story via a […]

Publishing systems are a dime-a-dozen these days as new ones seem to crop up every single day. Honestly, it can be completely exhausting as I’m generally fatigued to see what I consider a remix of a remix of a remix. In other words, it seems that everything is a remix and very little comes out to be fundamentally new. Sure, there’s a crowd and market for all of these remixes but I wonder what good they ultimately do to the overall publishing landscape as we see it plainly. Certainly a few of these remixes of remixes push the ball forward in […]

Every once in a while I review my personal blog publishing process to analyze what I’m doing so that I can ensure maximum levels of productivity and limited amounts of waste. I do this for the obvious reasons as just listed but also because I’m generally curious as to not just what I’m doing but also why. I often question the very things that I do so that I might gather a new perspective or see if I can better myself incrementally. I’ve learned do this quite instinctually – in fact, I’ve done something fairly dramatic this past weekend with my iPhone that […]