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I built my first WordPress site on version 1.2 in 2004, have designed and managed many large professional site networks, and taught college HTML and CSS.

The monthly subscription nightmare

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Some digital businesses have a difficult time choosing a business model. If they just started with a fair monthly fee, everything would be fine. Seriously.

I didn’t care enough to make this myself

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Many more commentaries would be published if I could just avoid all this bothersome thinking, writing, reading, and publishing. Is this a job for AI?

Doubling down on human creativity

Christopher HarperCommentary

We're discussing algorithms, artificial intelligence, and social media again. Reservations abound. Consider a few of them with me in this commentary.

I don’t collect analytics data

Christopher HarperCommentary

The numbers don't matter. Well, some of the numbers don't matter. Allow me to explain why I collect words-written stats, but not website visitor stats.

You don’t know me, but sign up for my stuff

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Too many website owners use analytics to justify poor decisions. An opening screen with a newsletter signup, as far as I can tell, fits into this category.

Get the team on board with new tech

Christopher HarperCommentary

Organization-wide technology upgrades present a number of key challenges. This outline may help leaders and teams to succeed in projects of this type.

Embrace the web, abandon social media

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I'm reading as much good stuff as ever on the web these days, but rarely using social media. You may want to consider how I do this using an RSS reader.

Building my website, not their websites

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You'll find attention on social media sites. And you'll be rewarded for using the tools they provide. But where can we find your permanent online archive?

The unfulfilled promise of algorithms

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I was a social media early-adopter. I had personal accounts and ran professional campaigns from the start. I was optimistic. But algorithms have failed.

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