Nathan was a guy at school who always finished his homework hours before everyone else. I went to an English boarding school, and they’d put twelve boys in the same room to do homework (prep) every evening. Nathan would race through his work so tha ...

Have you suffered from writer’s block? Have you ever felt your creative well had run so dry that even weeds couldn’t grow there? If you’ve ever thought you’d never have another idea even if someone gave you a list of them, take heart. The truth is we ...

One common stumbling block trips up all bloggers at one time during their careers. Waste-of-time-itis. During particularly lean days when nobody seems to read your blog you probably want to quit. Even worse? You fear that nobody will ever read your b ...

How tiny creatures with small brains outwit us so easily.

I went out on a limb and contacted some of my greatest blogging idols to see if a few of them might like to lend us some of their wisdom in response to the one question we’re all thinking about: how the hell did you get so many followers?

Apple is widely expected to launch a new iPhone next month. It's supposed to be a stunner. Where will Apple CEO Tim Cook hold up the latest iPhone for the first time in public? It could be at a big space in San Francisco, like last year's i ...

When you open Facebook on Monday, a special message about the 2017 total solar eclipse will promote NASA's live-streaming video feeds.

The long read: The oh-so-Instagrammable food movement has been thoroughly debunked – but it shows no signs of going away. The real question is why we were so desperate to believe it

The secret to content that keeps drawing an audience over the long run is that it is genuinely helpful.

After a particularly busy month in June, things settled down a bit in the WordPress world — WordPress 4.8’s release went very smoothly, allowing the Core team to build up some of the community infrastructure around development. Read on for more inter ...

A growing number of mental-health experts are taking a proactive approach to suicide prevention—and they have a bold goal. 

Execution is everything. Here's how you can execute at a much higher level, each and every day.

Bounce rate, what does it mean and is it a bad thing when it's high? Annelieke helps you understand your bounce rate in Google Analytics.

How to be a Doer.

I don’t particularly like the word “success.” It’s arbitrarily thrown around, and it’s most commonly associated with fame, money, and grand ambitions. For some, these things may indeed be what define success, but that’s a very narrow definition.

John Heard, best known as Peter McAllister in the "Home Alone" movies and who appeared in a wide range of TV and film roles, has died at 72. He was found dead in a Palo Alto, California, hotel where he was recovering after undergoing minor ...

Content repurposing. Repurposed content. Recontent... Re-what? The concept is misunderstood (even by Chris Brogan), yet is the new era of content marketing.

Well… That’s a Lie

Tired of your posts getting no love?

I’d been extolling the benefits of stream-of-consciousness writing with a new friend halfway across the world. I think I sounded like some kind of wizard. “Start writing, and the ideas will flow!” I exclaimed, rubbing my magic crystal ball and straig ...