- 6 years ago Sticky: Welcome to the /t/BES tribe! What exactly is this place?
- 6 years ago Sticky: Run a blog, vlog, or podcast? Start your own community like this one (but based on your topic of expertise/choice) and utilize the concept of “strength in numbers” to help you in awesome ways never before available.
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Cash for Words: A Brief History of Writing for Money
Money taints everything, why not writing too?
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Recent WordPress vulnerability used to deface 1.5 million pages
Up to 20 attackers or groups of attackers are defacing WordPress websites that haven't yet applied a recent patch for a critical vulnerability.
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How to blog when you've hit a wall and run out of creative ideas
A few months ago, you started your first blog. It was all so exciting. The words, the thoughts, the ideas, kept spilling out of you. You couldn’t wait to get it all up on the website, and see your followers liking and commenting on your great posts. Then suddenly… the wall.
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Now sites can fingerprint you online even when you use multiple browsers
Online tracking gets more accurate and harder to evade.
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Disqus Ads Are No Longer Free to Disable
WordPress users now have to pay a monthly fee to remove Disqus ads from their comments. Click here to learn more about these changes and some alternatives.
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Jens Lekman's guide to rebooting yourself creatively
After a crisis of confidence, the Swedish pop musician – celebrated for dispensing nuggets of advice to fans – has learned some new life lessons of his own.
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The Daily Habits that Every Aspiring Author Must Develop
1. Write Daily. I had aspirations of writing a book ever since I started my very first blog. But it wasn’t until I got into the habit of writing 1000 words a day that I was finally able to write and publish a book. Not only that, having a daily writing habit enabled me to develop the skills that allowed me to finish a 45,000-word manuscript in 6 months. If writing 1000 words feels like a lot, start small. Do 3 sentences a day. In the beginning, what matters more than your word count is developing the habit of sitting down to write.
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Neil Gaiman’s 8 Rules of Writing
In the winter of 2010, inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing published in The New York Times nearly a decade earlier, The Guardian reached out to some of today’s most celebrated authors and asked them to each offer his or her commandments. After Zadie Smith’s 10 rules of writing, here come 8 from the one and only Neil Gaiman...
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5 weak words to whack from your writing
There are 5 words that weaken your writing. Whack them when you see them and increase the power of your prose.
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Why IMDb should rethink the decision to close its message boards
Removal of key platform could lead to loss of discussion within film community and make site irrelevant
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The 3 Types of Writing People Actually Want to Read
I remember the first time a piece I wrote was rejected by an Editor.
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Four Killer Reasons Every Creative Person Must Write
Ray Bradbury once said “you must stay drunk on writing so that reality cannot destroy you.”
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Weekly Roundup | Health and Body: Top 20 stories of the week of Feb 14 - 21st, 2017
"Most of us think we don’t have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don’t have time not to. We’re talking about three to six hours a week – or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 – 165 hours of the week." - Stephen Covey
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Blogger learns that it's never OK to talk down pizza
Pizza is love. Pizza is life.
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Website builder Wix acquires art community DeviantArt for $36M
Wix.com has made another acquisition to build out the tools that it provides to users to build and administer websites: it has acquired DeviantArt, an online community for artists, designers and art/design enthusiasts...
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The 'Sharent'. Are We Safe As Parent Bloggers And Do We Put Our Children At Risk?
The Internet is rife with a proliferation of parent bloggers. And I am one of them. Are we oversharing parents?
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Twitter is locking accounts that swear at famous people
Last night, developer Victoria Fierce had some harsh words for Vice President Mike Pence. Incensed over the Trump administration’s recent rollback of transgender protections, Fierce let loose on Pence. “Fuck you,” she tweeted. “I gotta piss, and you’re putting me — an American — in danger of assault by your white supremacist brothers.”
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Txt.fyi is the ‘dumbest publishing platform on the web,’ and it’s brilliant
The first words I remember posting on the internet were on a self-made site uploaded to my local dial-up ISP's web hosting service. I have no idea if anyone ever read them, because they were a digital monolith — an attempt at writing that existed outside any real community or ecosystem, except maybe my parents and the real-world friends I showed it off to.
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The Digital Nomad's Guide To Working From Anywhere On Earth
The work-anywhere, travel-the-world fringe lifestyle is going mainstreamand these apps, services, and events are here to help.
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Amazon AWS S3 outage is breaking things for a lot of websites and apps
Amazon’s S3 web-based storage service is experiencing widespread issues, leading to service that’s either partially or fully broken on websites, apps and devices upon which it relies. The AWS offering provides hosting for images for a lot of sites, and also hosts entire websites, and app backends including Nest.