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If blog posts were like music…

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 11, 2008
Everyone would have a favorite one, or at least a top 10. They would talk about them over cups of coffee at the local coffee shop, and at work, crowded around their coworkers’ cubicles. They would print off their favorite posts and thumbtack them to the wall beside their computer desk. They would quote from their favorite blog posts [...]
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New Themes and Thoughts

By Matt Mitchell | Published: December 9, 2008
The site’s wearin new clothes; if you’re a regular visitor I guess you noticed. It’s curious; there are about a hundred million themes on the internet but it’s damn hard to find one I like. But I like this one well enough, so. In case you’re wondering or love it so much you’ve got to go [...]
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Scalzi’s ARC contest

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 19, 2008
There are lessons to be learned over at Whatever. John Scalzi announced the winning entrants (two runners up and one grand prize) for his Zoe’s Tale ARC contest this morning and it occurred to me, as I read the entries (many of which were really good), that it might be better to be published on the [...]
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Dugg and Stumbled Upon

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 8, 2008
Tuesday’s post was the first one I’ve ever had a Digg or StumbleUpon go wild. After chugging along for a while collecting between 100 and 300 unique visitors a day, Wednesday’s tally was near 10,000, and today is already up near 5,000. Those are huge numbers for this blog, easily records. It’s interesting, to me, because I’ve Dugg [...]
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April Rain [The Woeful Blog Stats of Unabashed]

By Matt Mitchell | Published: May 1, 2008
I read somewhere that 75% of blog visitors bounce away from the site within the first 30 seconds of arrival. For me, that stat is higher (this graph is for the month of April): Wish I knew why. But at the same time I have around 10% who stay for longer than 15 minutes. To those [...]
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Solar Blogging [in the woods]

By Matt Mitchell | Published: April 22, 2008
Joel Johnson over at BoingBoing is camping in the woods for a week–er, four days–in Harriman State Park in New York, with the intention of blogging using only solar power while he’s out. Sounds like fun to me. Keep up with his progress (or lack thereof) at BoingBoing.net as well as his Twitter account. He also [...]
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Milestones

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 24, 2008
Interesting note, today I uploaded the picture of the Aurora Borealis to my Flickr account, and then made a post on the blog about it. As it ends up, that was my 200th picture uploaded into Flickr, and my 200th post on Unabashed, which is kind of freaky. As milestones, the Flickr one is dubious, [...]
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1000 True Fans -or- The Writer’s Challenge

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 11, 2008
Kevin Kelly is a long-time internet mainstay, one of the original founders of Wired Magazine, and a week or so ago he posted this bit concerning his “1000 True Fans” theory (P.S.–if you haven’t read The Technium, I highly recommend it): A creator, such as an artist, musician, photographer, craftsperson, performer, animator, designer, videomaker, or author [...]
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Blog Fiction

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 11, 2008
In maintaining this journal through the years, along with its many and varied predecessors, I’ve made one small observation about what people want from writers and their blogs. On a blog people generally don’t want fiction. They do want things that are interesting, but for fiction they read books, not blogs. On occasion I think [...]
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The State of the Blog Address

By Matt Mitchell | Published: March 8, 2008
Okay, all my archives are finally in place, so past articles are available for your reading pleasure again (if you’re into that sort of thing). But–for some reason I lost some formatting in the transition, along with a few images. I’ve got 186 articles on this blog now, and I’ll start working through them gradually, [...]
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Cherie Priest Interview

By Matt Mitchell | Published: November 29, 2007
Cherie Priest is the author of Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom, and Not Flesh Nor Feathers, all from Tor Books. She has also produced two titles through Subterranean Press — Dreadful Skin and Those Who Went Remain There Still (forthcoming). Her first novel, Four and Twenty Blackbirds, won the first annual Blooker [...]
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