I can’t believe we’ve reached episode 50!
Sonant Thoughts has been running for nearly 6 months and it’s time to make a few changes.
As always, thanks for listening. You’re awesome!
Sonant Thoughts
A microcast covering social media, blogging, microblogging and the open web.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 50: Time To Change
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 49: Comment Wrap Up
Wrapping up thoughts on comments and engagement as a whole. Quantity vs quality, open vs closed, and everything that goes with it.
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Sonant Thoughts – Episode 48: Bored
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 47: Milestones And Mixing It Up
As I approach the 50 episode milestone I’m still enamoured by being able to record anywhere and at any time I want but it’s not always as simple to come up with a topic to record about.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 46: My Beef With Social
So, what exactly is my beef with social networks? Why have I abandoned them and what would it take for me to return to somewhere like Twitter having been such a heavy user for so long?
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 45: Taking Notes
Ongoing thoughts about my requirements in a writing app and whether I should stick with Ulysses.
Also, why I just don’t get on with nvAlt.
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Sonant Thoughts – Episode 44: What Kind Of Blogger
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 43: Waiting For Final
In line with my different approach to beta testing, this is the first year for quite a while that I have not installed an OS beta (iOS or Android) on my phone – my primary device.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 42: Discussing Comments
The discussion around blog comments (should they, shouldn’t they, and how) is almost as old as blogging itself.
New platforms and technologies reignite this discussion as alternative ways of handling the conversation are explored.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 41: What’s In It For Me?
My attitude to beta testing has changed over the years and I think that now makes me a better tester.
The expectations and motivations for testing are a major factor and we just have to be grown up about it.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 40: Quick To Judge
Testing alternative email apps between the phone and Mac made me realise just how fussy I can be about apps.
We above incredibly quick to judge faced with almost endless variation and competition. Should we slow down and take our time?
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 39: Fingers And Thumbs
Why don’t I use traditional computers as much as I should? Why do I choose to use my phone so often even when sat in front of a laptop?
Is it convenience or design? Or is there another reason altogether?
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 38: Raw
I mentioned in a previous episode about how I wanted to move in the opposite direction to those producing highly professional podcasts. Well, this is raw.
Recorded while walking complete with cars and other background noise, I talk about the flexibility granted by doing everything on mobile.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 37: Our Unedited Voice
What is a blog? What should a blog be? Where is the line between chosen topic and personal content, and should we cross it? Are the answers to these questions purely personal or are they moulded by external influences, and what effect does this have?
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 36: The Power Of Ecosystem
There is a definite advantage to having multiple devices within the same ecosystem. The interconnection between them grants an added layer of utility each cannot provide on their own.
Rather than looking for a killer app or feature, the sum of these little connections could be the difference between using a device or not.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 35: Four Months
Where has the time gone? It’s exactly four months to the day that I upload Episode 0 of the microcast.
Here I talk about what I want to do with it in future and how I want to do things.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 34: Forbidden Fruit
The rallying cry of the open web is that the tools are available to anyone but that often falls short.
Availability is as much a barrier to adoption as knowledge and it is easy to understand the accusations of elitism.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 33: Choosing Your Target
Social networks change how we create. By working to the limitations they enforce we are, in turn, limiting ourselves and what we can do.
The networks should be an afterthought in our creative processes where we choose how to publish based on the content rather than the other way round.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 32: Journalling
Writing publicly is very different to writing privately and requires a different mindset if it is to be done properly.
Journalling and blogging can crossover to a point but the former needs specific disciplines to work and to provide value.
Sonant Thoughts – Episode 31: Misunderstandings
Writing for the web can be hard. The words we use are only a fraction of our total communication so, when they are all we have, it is imperative we use the right ones.