I wrote a post over at werd.io about idno, the open source publishing tool I've been building:
What decisions would I make if I was building Elgg today, in 2013? What would I do the same way, and what would I do differently?
It's still a relatively technical post - it's still very much in development, after all - but go read the whole post and let me know what you think.
We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.
Predictions for journalism; paperbacks are dead; feeling the fear.
"Feeling fear goes hand-in-hand with being ambitious. Imposter syndrome is real and normal. In fact, if you aren't feeling fear in what you do, I'd argue that you aren't being ambitious enough." Here's a way to build in the fear and do it anyway.
"Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in digital media what they think is coming in the year ahead. Here's what they told us." Some essays from the annual collection that caught my eye.