John Baker’s Blog

DeepGenre hosts an interesting discussion about what works on an author’s website:
I think… skip the bio if your life is entirely boring and devoid of events, but add it otherwise. And preferably add it with more details than the “John doe is a farmer from wherever who lives with her husband and five cats in [...]

SearchEngineLand reports on the results of a Pew/Internet survey, concentrating on what people tend to search for on the web. Approximately half of internet users have done ego searches, looking for themselves, checking out their online presence.
Self-validation seems to be an increasingly necessary act as we move further into the 21st century. We’ve known for [...]

Pearce Carefoote, author of Forbidden Fruit: Banned, Censored and Challenged Books from Dante to Harry Potter, believes that attempts at censorship usually backfire:
“When you think about the history of education, going back to Socrates, it’s all been about asking questions, arguing over ideas, raising objections and then coming to some kind of resolution. That takes [...]

The British Blogs site aggregates the feed content of a variety of UK based blogs, listing truncated posts shortly after they have appeared on their original sites. Around 100 categories range widely between soccer, film, food, satire, books, politics, music, humour and religion, to name but a few.
If you click on your chosen category in [...]