blogging – Page 2 – Elizabeth Tai

Why a lot of my content is now gated

Mar 31, 2024

I’m gating a lot of my content on my website these days. The reasons are numerous, which I detail in this post, but namely – I want AI companies, Google & other corporations to “work for it” if they want my content to boost their profits, and also: I want to keep some stuff more…

Is the Internet really broken?

Nov 9, 2023

My thoughts about The Verge’s article, The people who ruined the Internet and Danny Sullivan’s response, and the conversation swirling around SEO and the suckiness of the Internet.

What I learned from one year of Substack

Oct 22, 2023

Personal and random observations on what it takes to “make it” on this platform. Caution: Some of it can be brutally honest and rub you the wrong way. This post will be gated after a week. ;)

Now my posts are not appearing on the Fediverse

Oct 17, 2023

My Activitypub wordpress.com adventures continues…

Some flaws with ActivityPub and wordpress.com integration

Oct 15, 2023

Definitely liking how ActivityPub works with my two blogs. However, there are a few limitations.

Being an imperfect gardener of my digital garden

Jul 6, 2023

The way I blog has drastically changed since I discovered the IndieWeb. For one, I’m less precious with my blog posts. I allow mistakes, errors, and no longer think chronologically. Every post is an evolving document.

Google: All your content are belong to us

Jul 4, 2023

In a move that surprised absolutely nobody, Google has changed its privacy policy to declare that they will scrape up anything you post online to train their AI tools. How should writers and artists protect their content from now on?

How I am blogging the IndieWeb way

Jul 3, 2023

Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Substack … if you’re building your content home on any of these, it’s time to wake up to the cold hard reality that they could all disappear on you one day. As a writer, embracing Indieweb principles could save your life’s work from disappearing along with these platforms. Here’s how I…

POSSE and PESOS: Better ways to publish content

Jul 2, 2023

When I wrote this today, #TwitterDown was trending on Mastodon. Here’s another lesson why using platforms like Twitter and Substack as your content home is a bad idea. Publish your content the POSSE/PESOS way and you avoid much of the dangers of a social media site melting down.

How I’m healing from algorithms

Jun 20, 2023

The slow awakening that I no longer have to create around an algorithm’s demands. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

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