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Making Newsletters Pay So you’ve created your content, and now you need to make it pay. First off, there’s the outsourcing options. Ko-Fi allows you to set up a Tip Jar, where people can leave one-off payments. Patreon allows people to subscribe, paying a regular amount to go past your paywall. Terms and conditions apply,… Continue reading The Revenue Issue

The ongoing collapse of Twitter as a meaningful forum – and if we’re lucky, the imminent irrelevance of several other major social media giants – offers a unique opportunity to journalists, in particular to younger writers and students without established brand personas. Seize the day. Delete your old posts. Change your name, or rather, adjust… Continue reading Reboot, Reimagine, Reinvent

Own Your Words. It’s a simple idea, but what does it mean? It means, quite simply, that if your words, your creations, are on a site you don’t own, then you aren’t in control. The website you trust with your words could put up a paywall tomorrow morning, cutting off your audience. Or they could… Continue reading Owning Words

December 2023. A baseless claim is posted to a Facebook community group. A far-right politician repeats the claim under privilege in Leinster House, without evidence. A website publishes the story, again without any evidence. This is how disinformation spreads. To use an idiom from 1980s horror movies, the call is coming from inside the house.… Continue reading Reformatting News: I

I have too many computers. My main laptop computer, the one I’m most likely to use for serious work, is a Lenovo Thinkpad X280. It’s a slim, sleek black machine. Black has always been a trademark identity for the Thinkpad range. Going back to when it was owned by IBM, their image was the computer… Continue reading In Memory

Anois teacht an Earraigh beidh an lá dúl chun shíneadh, Is tar eis na féil Bríde ardóigh mé mo sheol. Go Coillte Mach rachad ní stopfaidh me choíche Go seasfaidh mé síos i lár Chondae Mhaigh Eo. I gClár Chlainne Mhuiris A bheas mé an chéad oíche, Is I mballa taobh thíos de A thosós… Continue reading Imbolc

The Tennant specials were fun. But also, damn you IMDb, I was promised Susan Foreman. Fairly sure what I’ve liked most is the return of the classic white and off-white Tardis control room after 18 years of guardrails, pavement grilles, salt crystals and airship girders. Christmas Day special, the Doctor dances. And sings. And fans… Continue reading Doctor Notes

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