How many tabbed windows do you have open right now? Can you remember what all those tabbed windows are about? In the early days of browsers, a perennial and annoying problem was […]
Writing
What No One’s Telling You About Paid vs Free
At South by Southwest, a bunch of us were chatting about blogging. Charlie said something like I don’t know why Ali’s writing for me for free. And, later on in the week, […]
Writing Posts The Easy Way With TextExpander
[If you’re reading this in via email or RSS, you’ll have to click through to watch the video.] I’m going to say it up front: this is a long screencast, even for […]
More Effective Blog Writing Starts with Being A More Effective Writer
If you want to start writing better blog posts, odds are, you need to become a better writer. That may sound obvious, I know, but there’s a surprising dearth of books on […]
Ask Charlie: How Do You Mindmap and Purge?
Note: “Ask Charlie” is a new category of posts where I answer the questions people send me via email, Twitter, or wherever else we interact. After trying to figure out the best […]
The Blog Gets A Tune-Up!
I’ve been doing a lot of behind the scenes work here and I’d like to let you know about them. My aim was to make the site more usable, accessible, and clear […]
PF Becomes Print-Friendly
Just in time for Earth Day!: I worked behind the scenes today to fix my CSS so that this site is more print-friendly. Yes, rather than write in a way that’s more […]
Bringing Conversations (Back?) to Blogging
I could have written this post as a more standard blog post with a catchy stand-alone intro, but it’s worth not doing that in this case. This post is about how we’re […]
The Blog Post Planner and Calendar
Want the Blog Post Planner and Calendar? It’s in the Content Library of our free Mighty Networks community. Click here to join! One of the great things about blogs is that some […]
Reader Question Answered: Being Productive vs. Writing About Productivity
A couple of weeks ago, I was having lunch with Kelly from the Honeycomb and we were talking about productivity, planners, and life, in general. She later emailed me with a question […]
Don’t We Get to Choose What Words Mean?
Clay wrote a brilliant comment on my last post dissenting (somewhat) about the importance of words, roots, and their meaning. I started to write a comment in response but it became clear that […]
Whose Blogspace Is This, Anyways?
I’m trying to save all of my metablogging posts ’til Friday, since if I wrote about all the stuff related to blogging that I’m thinking about, I’d probably write as much about […]
Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing for Non-Academics
I had a forehead slap moment last Tuesday when I was proofreading a letter my wife had written to a military officer. She’s doing some research on families of Army National Guardsmen […]
Lifehack: Personal Productivity in the 21st Century
Dustin posted an article about Personal Productivity in the 21st Century over at Lifehack. I was going to comment on it on the blog, but my commentary got a bit long, so […]
7 Things We Fight That Make Life Harder
Yesterday, Angela and I went ice skating. Being poor and from the South, I never learned to ice skate as a kid, and this was something like the third time I’ve been. […]
Thank You Commenters and Readers
Some bloggers spend a long time writing into the void when they first get their site up and going. They forget that people aren’t searching for them; rather, they’re searching for content. […]
10 Tips to Help You Fail at Monetizing Your Blog
[Abstract: This post provides tips to help you fail at monetizing your blog. It could also be seen as a list of things for you not to do if you want to […]
A Somewhat New Look at APPD
[Abstract: This brief post discusses some of the changes to this blog.] After several hours of tinkering with CSS code and trying to figure out where my titles went, I have completed […]