Wordyard

Hand-forged posts since 2002

Archives

About

Greatest hits

What’s going on here?

The Wordyard Project is where I’m writing about
being ourselves in a post-social world.

For me, this is:

  • a beat to cover
    — I’ve been a journalist since I was in high school!
  • a conversation to hold
    — I’ve been talking with people online for nearly 25 years!
  • and a publishing model to explore
    — I started self-publishing on a mimeograph machine in the 1970s and I never want to stop.

now-available-mimeo-duplicators

The model is:

  • independent — this is what I do. No one owns me.
  • personal — this is really me here, not a media property or a startup or any other kind of quasi-human entity.
  • disintermediated — there’s as few middlepeople between you and me as possible.
  • sustainable — I am not building something so I can sell it later. I’m doing exactly what I want to do here, and I want to keep doing it for a very long time.

I wrote a trio of introductory posts that lay all this out in more detail:

  • The Wordyard Project: Being ourselves in a post-social world
  • Authenticity: Who we are when we’re together through our devices
  • Wordyard Project nuts and bolts: what I’ll do and how I’ll support it

If this excites you, you can:

  • Sign up for weekly emails at the bottom of any post (or right here).
  • Subscribe to the RSS feed.
  • Follow me on Twitter or Facebook
  • Contact me here.

There’s more about me, my two books, and my checkered past right here.

Thanks for stopping by, and let me know what you think!