Cover of The Elements of Content Strategy
Ironically, I found this primer on content strategy, The Elements of Content Strategy by Erin Kissane, lacking in both content and strategy. Moreover, what made it hard to get through even such a short book was the dry prose. Even for someone who is very interested in content – online and otherwise – this was just too boring, I am sorry to say.
The cover of Replay
An interesting account of video game history is near ruined by sloppy editing. Continue reading
When I was a child in Norway quite a few decades ago, I experienced a dearth of content compared to today. There was obviously no Internet, there was one TV channel that only broadcast in the evenings, and only two radio channels.
One of my great joys was going to the library, where of course I checked out favorite books (I remember reading every single Agatha Christie novel), but I also picked and read dozens of books more or less at random. This meant starting and abandoning some truly awful works of fiction, but also many great moments of content serendipity – finding something interesting, moving, and/or instructional to read, by simple fluke. Continue reading
I made my first web site in 1996, learning HTML from online resources and hosting it at the University of Minnesota once they told me all grad students there could do so. It was a blog (before the term was even coined) called “Tore’s Official Concert Guide” – basically, reviews of concerts I went to. I kept it up through different iterations on different web hosts for about six years, until I let it die when I started blogging for TromsøBy. Continue reading