Wendy decided to move her site from WordPress.com back to Blogger this weekend. The move went okay but Blogger is having problems importing new blogs right now. You can find her at iamwendycooper.blogspot.com from now on. Her RSS feed remains the same and of course you can find her on Twitter at @wendycooper.
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The New York Times Meets Dooce
The paper of record profiles Heather Armstrong. Here is how it started. She is the only blogger on the latest Forbes list of the Most Influential Women in Media, coming in at No. 26, which is 25 slots behind Oprah, but just one slot behind Tina Brown. Her site brings in an estimated $30,000 to [...]
Your Right to Comment Ends at My Front Door
Derek Powazek has a great post on blogging and comments. I turned off comments in the last redesign of powazek.com because I needed a place online that was just for me. With comments on, when I sat down to write, I’d preemptively hear the comments I’d inevitably get. It made writing a chore, and eventually [...]
What’s Wrong with SCN?
A couple of months ago the Saskatchewan Party announced that they were going to shut down or sell the Saskatchewan Communication Network. I wanted to be really upset over this but I just can’t. After almost 20 years of flipping to the SCN regularly, I have enjoyed a total of three local shows. I watched [...]
Bill Kinnon on writing
Bill has a wonderful post on writing. The entire thing is worth reading but this one got me thinking In 2004, Nielsen BookScan tracked the sales of 1.2 million books and found that nine hundred and fifty thousand of them sold fewer than ninety-nine copies. So we are looking at author royalties of a couple [...]
Wendy on the social web
Over on her blog Several years ago someone got very angry at Jordon because he never phoned someone. Jordon’s reply was, I e-mail regularly and I don’t really call anyone anymore. The person was quite upset and ranted and raved about how stupid e-mail is. Now the situation was more complicated than that but Jordon [...]
