On Thursday, 15 September, 2005, at 09:20am, I posted my first blog post on my Infinite Pursuit blog on Blogger. It was titled in the beginning. Since then, I have written countless words and shared on the internet, in one form or another. The 'why' has been less of an evolution and more of an erratic, sometimes frantic, internal debating, veering from building my writing chops to putting myself out there for work (ie. promotion and marketing of my writing services) to 'why not?!' A few months after that post, I posted my first post on a second blog - Imperfect Poetry - I started, also...
What would happen if your website disappeared?
I started my website in 2009 and, albeit erratically, have shared writing and thoughts on a wide range of topics on it since then. There was my ‘tech journo’ phase when I was plugged into that world and wrote posts on launches, new gadgets, innovations, etc. In fact, one of my first posts was on Nokia, when it was still dominating the market. There’s been my extended music phase where I have written about artists, albums and everything in between, including attempting to create regular features like Digital Crates, where I share musicians and albums I ‘discover’ and Life Soundtrack, where I...
How To Find News Amidst The Noise
Blogger, Wordpress, Tumblr, Medium and LinkedIn’s Pulse are probably the main blogging platforms that exist today. There are many other platforms and millions of people all over the world use these to share their thoughts, persepectives, etc every day. NextWeb published a post on The 18 best blogging and publishing platforms on the Internet today earlier this year and, if you do a search for blogging platforms, there are others that are not on that list. Sites as diverse as Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Vice, The New York Times, The Guardian, Mashable, Entrepreneur, The Verge and Wired also...