Getting Back to Basics and Blogging with Colin Devroe

I was excited to reconnect with my friend Colin Devroe on this episode. We met through the WordPress community in Scranton and I just the co-working space he and his business part Kyle created. In this conversation, we get back to basics, and talk blogging. With the ever changing landscape of the web and social media, how important is it to have your own blog? Let’s find out!

Show Notes

* Colin Devroe
* Jujama
* Barley
* Writing is How I Think
* Bad Reasons to Not Blog
* Colin’s personal blogging tips
* Zeldman
* Seth Godin
* Micro.blog
* Repurposing Your Content with Jaclyn Schiff
* IndieWeb
* Chris Lema and Managed WooCommerce Hosting
* The Future of Blogging
* Mastodon
* The Talk Show | Daring Fireball
* Bullet Journal

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Colin Devroe: “Do what you want.” I think that’s the biggest thing that people leave out sometimes, is themselves in their blog. The most important thing that you’re going to bring to the world is yourself because your ideas very likely aren’t going to be original. In the sense that if you’re blogging about a particular lamb recipe, there’s a very good chance that it may exist out there, but it’s about bringing your own personality to it. How many times have we subscribed to a blog that the only thing that we liked about it was that the person had their own attitude?
Intro: I was excited to reconnect with my friend Colin Devroe on this episode. We met through the WordPress community in Scranton, and I joined the co-working space that he and his business partner Kyle created. In this episode, we get back to basics, and we talk about blogging. Colin has been on the internet for a very long time. Nearly as long as you could be on the internet, actually, so he’s been blogging for just about that long. With the ever-changing landscape of web and social media,