Last week, geeks from all over the world dominated Amsterdam to learn about the future of their profession at The Next Web conference. Of course, it concerned blogging as well. Blogging is changing due to microblogging. So, how does that affects us? Here’s some advice from investor Chris Sacca, writer Jeff Jarvis, and Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg. They were all at The Next Web and showed us bloggers the way to go.
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,,I’m jealous of David Remnick. He’s only fifty years old, but already has the Pullitzer Prize and runs the best magazine of the world, The New Yorker,” said Holland’s most popular talkshow host Matthijs van Nieuwkerk when I interviewed him in the studio of his show. ,,You should look up his bio, do a Google search. I’m sure he will inspire you and your readers as well”.
Well, I took this…
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When you’re a journalist who starts a blog, you’ll have to kill some of your darlings. To give you an example: I’ve been in the School of Journalism my whole life. My dad taught me the basic rules for journalism and kept repeating them every time I wrote an article. Like: sub headers consist of one or two words from the following paragraph. For years I obeyed that rule, even…
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Today I talked about my inspiration for blogging on the Web 2.0 Symposium in Budapest. I wanted to give the audience something to think about, instead of just give them an insight in my blogging mind. So I made a comparison between LSD and the Internet.
I came up with that comparison when I visited the exhibition Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era in The Whitney Museum of…
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There are three important ingredients for success. The first one? Hard work. The other two? Swagger and hustling.
On the day of Obama’s inauguration, two Dutch students crashed the Big Improvement Day – a meet-up of Holland’s finest in the public and private sector. After breaching security with fake press applications, they chose their places and waited for the highlight of the day: Sir Richard Branson.
An interactive SMS screen allowed…
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Don’t you get tired of all those boring “How to be a better writer?”-posts. It’s the same thing all over again, “Have a unique voice”, “Love your commenters”, etcetera, etcetera. To help us all out, I’ve dug through the clutter and selected 36 posts that can help you become an original and all-round problogger. And because vanity is a blogger’s right, I’ve also included four articles by my own hand. Themes are Development & Design, Workflow, Publishing, Inspiration and Comments. Enjoy!
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I love to surround myself with persons who have creative minds and an entrepreneurial spirit. People who do stuff, who want to share stuff. Almost everybody loves some attention for his work, let alone feedback. So I tell those hip folks a blog is a perfect platform for that.
This article will function as a personal standard piece on your blog as a platform. From now on, whenever a friend or foe starts a blog – I’ll send him this post to get started. It’s a work in progress, so your suggestions are more than welcome.
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“I want to see Lenin’s body!”
“No way! That’s just gross, I wanna go shopping!”
“What the hell are you thinking? You can shop in Amsterdam!”
“Forget it, I’m outta here. You guys all suck”.
I was chilling in the park of Eternal flame for the Unknown Soldier in Moscow, when my travel companions decided it was about time for a fight about the schedule. Once again, I had found myself in a study…
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When I introduce people to the beautiful world of blogging by telling them about all the indirect advantages like the enrichment of your social life, they often share the same doubts. Most heard questions: “Who am I to start blogging about this subject?” They feel like they’re nobodies and absolutely not in the position to write about their passion or profession.
The feeling that they’ll never be an authority or…
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