Maybe you remember “The Never Been Freshly Pressed” Club (NBFP). I started it in 2013 because there were so many of us WordPress.com bloggers who had never been ‘pressed‘. (‘Freshly Pressed’ was a WordPress magazine, of sorts, that featured the writings of every day bloggers.) ‘Freshly Pressed’ has been allowed to die. It has been…
The dawn of a new day. If there are clouds, then a sunrise can be a remarkably beautiful transition from dark to light. Perhaps our blogging hosts, WordPress.com, were thinking of dawn when they recently unveiled the New High Speed Editor. I certainly thought they had made a few improvements since they first introduced the…
WordPress and the controversy of the Rainbow banner.
Originally posted on The Cvillean:
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.” – Henry David Thoreau “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” – William Shakespeare “Twelfth Night” “Great men need great events.” – unknown author (although it might…
Michelle, a well meaning WordPress Story Wrangler, chose my post ‘Hidden Valley – A Community Lost’ for the honour of being Freshly Pressed. Michelle had been following the story of the flooding of our community, and she thought it deserved a wider audience. Unfortunately, most of the Freshly Pressed readers didn’t agree. They weren’t as…
So You’ve Never Been Freshly Pressed! Then it is your lucky day, because you qualify for membership in the NBFP Club. Yes, there are other bloggers just like you who have chosen WordPress.com but WordPress.com hasn’t chosen you… or them… By my estimation, (and by virtue of my self appointed rank of President of NBFP…
I was just putting the finishing touches on a post about all my blogging friends who have never been ‘Freshly Pressed‘. I was thinking it would be appropriate to form a group of ‘Never Been Freshly Pressed’ (NBFP) bloggers, perhaps design our own badge to put in a widget on our sidebar – celebrate our…
