SPAMVENTDOCUMENT the blog, again, by Justin Fox

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SPAMVENTDOCUMENT the blog, again, by Justin Fox

11 August 2008

I’ve mentioned Australian Infront founder, and web designer about Sydney, Justin Fox’s latest personal blog before, but in a blogosphere choke full of make-money-online and blogs-about-blogging… blogs, it is refreshing to read something again that is the no-strings-attached real deal.

I feel like I’ve been sitting here all these years watching the world go by, in my “only dead fish go with the flow” sort of way, while Justin is out there doing all sorts of different stuff with hotted-up bikes, hotted-up cars, hotted-up web design, and all sorts of other stuff.

Here’s an example of what I mean:

The Met helmet was awesome, so cool. Nice to see a couple of other riders out there with them on too. The TLD XC gloves, whilst suuper comfy for the first hour, are a bit thin. Might look into thicker gloves. The Joplin seatpost is a miracle which I called on a billion times today on the fly. It gives you power when you need it for the climbs and gives you bucket loads of confidence for the tech downhill stuff.

I don’t what half of that means, but it’s fun to read.

Update: Justin’s blog can now be found here.

Originally published Monday 11 August 2008, with subsequent revisions, updates to lapsed URLs, etc.

How to blog for media snackers: serve bite-sized bits of information

31 October 2007

Chris Wilson, writing at Fresh Peel:

My generation is historically known for being addicted to bite-sized bits of information. The Internet hit schools right at the time we were enveloped in the core of our developmental learning. We quickly adapted and changed how we digested information, and schools in turn changed the way they taught. This was the beginning of the Media Snackers.

Wilson has some great tips for blogging with the attention-span-deprived generation in mind, in particular:

I try to keep my posts short.

… and something I’ve been dabbling with at disassociated recently, bite size blogging:

I break my posts up into little lists and bites so that they are easier to skim so readers can indulge themselves where they were interested.

Originally published Wednesday 31 October 2007, with subsequent revisions, updates to lapsed URLs, etc.