Good for me

When I explained to someone that I had spent my two weeks off pottering around our flat, and staying for a few days each in the Cotswolds and Devon, their response was the limp “Good for you”. Faint and damning maybe but also correct – it was good for me. During the first couple of … Continue reading →

More Worry, Less Posts

Ah, the irony of the emphatic end to my last post “Worry less, post more”. Within 24 hours how I had learnt to rue those words. It started with a colleague telling me how a random person had told him they’d enjoyed my blog. I was ecstatic to learn that someone who wasn’t a relative, … Continue reading →

The Relevance of Daft Blogs

I learnt recently about a technique of online community management called “speed bumping” whereby users are prevented from posting comments more than once every few minutes. The result is that whilst reducing the sheer number of posts, it also encourages more intelligent, thought-through contributions, and less entries that consist solely of either TLAs (three-letter acronyms) … Continue reading →