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Blog consolidating and spring-cleaning

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on August 24, 2018August 25, 2018
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Consolidating Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been consolidating and spring cleaning my blog. This has involved  using a self-hosted WordPress installation to import a bunch of old backup files, then adding some other […]

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Focussing on practice

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on April 26, 2018October 18, 2018
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I was reading Chris Bowler’s most recent email newsletter today. In the intro to it he makes the comment: It has simply been a matter of waiting and looking for the right things to write […]

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Amygdalae and blogging

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on March 27, 2018October 18, 2018
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The telling of stories helps us to rewire the brain and reattach emotional significance to the memories we have. The act of being creative helps to balance the tendency to over-rely on logic as a […]

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New name, new host, same blog

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on March 15, 2018October 18, 2018
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Yesterday I made a couple of changes to my blog, though I’m hoping that you will barely notice one of them. The change you will most likely notice is a change of blog name, from […]

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Small b

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on March 6, 2018October 18, 2018
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I’m interested in encouraging people to blog, in whatever way works for them. I recently found the following post which does just that: Small b blogging by Tom Critchlow

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An About page (finally)

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on February 22, 2018October 18, 2018
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Today’s writing was to finally put an “About” page on this blog. I find these the hardest part of a website to write and I will revise what I wrote today, but it’s a start.

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Anorexic web writing

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on February 21, 2018October 18, 2018
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A good article on some of the things that make web writing insipid and inspiration to do better: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing by Amber Simmons (2007)

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Book learning

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on February 20, 2018October 18, 2018
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As I’ve been reading and researching information about writing for the web, I realised that it will save me time to find a book on the topic by someone who already knows about it. After […]

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Reading on the web

  • by Mike McArthur
  • Posted on February 16, 2018October 18, 2018
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The famous answer by Jakob Nielson to “How do users read on the web?” is “They don’t.” Very few web users read written web content word-for-word. Instead, they scan the page searching for the information […]

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