I love link blogs. I follow a bunch of them via RSS and read them every day. They're light, interesting, and random—pulling videos, images, and stories from corners of the web I wouldn't normally visit. Curated link blogs are incredibly valuable, but some go sour.
I've been an RSS user for many years now and as my interest in reading and writing waxes and wanes, my reliance on it does also.
I haven't been writing much lately. I haven't been reading much lately either. I haven't been sleeping well lately and it's not because of the squirrels in our attic or the pretzel-like configuration my partner, my dog, and I make when we tuck in for the night.
On this week’s episode of Encore I am joined by special guest Jacob Tender. This week we discuss AbsolutePunk.net, SpinMedia, UnderTheGun and a lot of behind the scenes chaos that plagued the music web community over the past few years.
I almost took a job at AltPress out of high school, there have been times I regretted going a different route, but knowing what I know now, I'm glad I didn't make the move to Cleveland. I love Alternative Press....
Jason Tate has bought back the Absolutepunk [http://absolutepunk.net] name and URL from SPIN Group and launched a new platform [http://forum.chorus.fm] for the community to move to. > I had started my first business, AbsolutePunk, LLC, as...
Chris Miller (AKA Darth Hound [http://twitter.com/Darth_Hound]) is several features into an insightful series on The Force Awakens and its characters on The Star Wars Report. > According to the Visual Dictionary and the novelization, Snoke sees Kylo...
When I was a junior in high school, I wanted to be James Shotwell. Today, I think the only person who would find that more hilarious that James himself would be our late friend Justin, a person I would have...
Thomas Nassiff (formerly of AbsolutePunk and Fuse) has recently started his own blog with a killer URL. His blog is sorryinter.net [http://sorryinter.net] and he now has a podcast to go along with it. No stranger to the...
Mike Comite a happy birthday today, he returned the well-wishes with a gift for me. "Ever listen to superdrag?" I hadn't, but like all of Mike's recommendations, I looked them up. He suggested Head Trip In Every Key as my...
I started my first Tumblr account in 2008. I used it infrequently and eventually moved fully to my Wordpress blogs in late 2009. I used self-hosted Wordpress blogs for 5 years before returning to Tumblr to begin this blog. It...
An in-depth look [http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2013/10/pigeons-and-planes-history/s/268074/] at the rise of my favorite hip-hop and pop music blog. Worth reading for anyone who has or is thinking about starting their own blog to write about music...
Since I left my position at Substream Magazine in October, a lot has changed. Both the publication’s Marketing Director (Nici Arsenault) and Managing Editor (Drew Wille) have also effectively left the company. In my 6 months there, those two,...
You can get John Saddington’s blogging application Desk for half the price for a limited time. Selected as a part of the Mac App Store’s Get Productive collection, Desk is only 14.99 right now. Desk works with...
John Saddington, Desk.PM: > A lot of people have asked me whether sponsorship and advertising on John Gruber’s Daring Fireball actually works. What they are asking, more specifically, is whether it’s really worth the investment, because advertising is...
I’ve been making tweaks to my blog for a few weeks now. Nothing you’d probably notice at a first glance, just cleaning up code and budging things into place. I’ve been doing this as I code some...
Zack Zarrillo, in answer to Mike Meeze [https://twitter.com/PunkOutLGBT/status/552896672322568192]: > Ultimately, the decision about which bands we cover on the site falls on me. On a normal day, it seems clear which bands align themselves with my...
When building this website from hand, I worked through a bunch of CSS methods I’d not used before. I was able to create blocks and set widths, padding, and margins with general ease. In the end, my test posts...
Zack Zarrillo writes: > Today, we’re incredibly excited, nervous, and ready to begin the next phase of PropertyOfZack. I’ve been updated by Zack throughout the planning process for today’s relaunch [https://propertyofzack.com/] for a while. Months of...
One of my favorite music blogs is Pigeons & Planes. They currently are open for pitches. > Or, if you don't want to start a blog, write for Pigeons & Planes. Send your ideas: pitches(at)pigeonsandplanes(dot)com — Pigeons & Planes (@PigsAndPlans) January...
Over the past year, I've evolved from a boy on a blog to a boy with an insane amount of email to contend with on a daily basis. So much that if I don't wake up to at least 20...