The week’s posts on a single page (most recent at the top):
11 O’Clock Tick Tock
If like me you’ve heard of TikTok but don’t know much about it, there’s a great article that explains it:
The Complete Beginner’s Guide to TikTok
It answers the following:
- What is TikTok?
- How does it work?
- How do people get views, likes and followers on there?
- How are brands using it?
- What’s next for it?
- How can you become a TikTok expert?
One In Ten
If you want your site to rank higher in Google it’s a good idea to understand a bit about SEO, which I define here as:
SEO / search engine optimisation – the practice of trying to improve a webpage’s or website’s organic ranking (ie, not paid for) in search engine results pages (SERPs), and increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to that webpage or website.
I recently came across the video below that might help:
Dip It Low
I haven’t forgotten about my book but it is temporarily on the back-burner because of work commitments, which is probably not a bad thing as I’d got to a point with it that needed further thought, reflection and clarity.
I picked up a book that I’d already once, which is great at such times when you’re wondering whether to stick or twist, quit or carry on.
It’s called The Dip, and you can read more about it here* (affiliate link).
Steady, As She Goes
As I’m sure you’d noticed, journalism is changing. Like certain other industries, it’s been slow to adapt to the internet’s disruption.
Then there’s the problem of fake news, compounded by non-news and too much news generally.
In response, there’s Tortoise, “the biggest journalism project ever on Kickstarter”.
They say:
We’re building a different type of newsroom. For a slower, wiser news.
I’ve signed up to receive their emails and will report back in due course.
Around The World
Wherever you go in the world, there’s a service you can use based on a brilliant idea:
Touchnote lets you send personalised postcards featuring your own photo (or one of their designs), then you add your message and they print the card and post it anywhere the world.
It’s available via the App Store and Google Play.
Something Wicked This Way Comes
I’ve written before about the three layers of the internet:
- The top layer, the ‘tip of the iceberg’, which includes all the famous the sites everyone online knows about and, basically, any content that can be accessed via hyperlinks
- Then there’s the deep web, which includes content that’s password-protected, unpublished, not linked to by other sites, accessible only after a search has been performed or behind a paywall
- Then there’s the dark web, which I know very little about
And then, checking my spam folder in case anything useful had found its way in there, I found a message that had come via this website.
It read:
Are you curious to know what the dark web is? What is hidden in the deep Internet? Go!
Download TOR browser and visit TOR sites directory
TOR browser – https://www.torproject.org/download/
TOR sites directory – http://torwiki.biz/
I’m tempted by these links (I’d obviously check them first) to learn more. Maybe children should be educated about the dark web too.
As I wrote in October 2018:
(The dark web) does have its legitimate uses – preserving the anonymity of activists and journalists, for example – but due to its nature, there is, so I’ve read, quite a lot of naughty stuff that goes on there: illicit marketplaces for guns, drugs, counterfeit money, hackers and worse.
Like To Get To Know You Well
Want to be a freelance writer or editor? One piece of advice:
Get used to working with different content management systems/CMSs. In my experience, they’re all pretty much the same, some are more robust than others and some more intuitive.
Whether it’s WordPress, Joomla or a custom set-up, the more you’ve worked with them in the past, the easier it becomes in the future.
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