update on Lon.TV Blog

320,000!

Sat, 30 Apr 2022 08:10:45 -0400

320,000 Subscribers!

We hit 320,000 subscribers today! Slow and steady is preferable IMHO to becoming a viral one hit wonder. Thank you for your continued support! Here’s a video I made about my channel’s strategy from last year when I hit the 300k mark.

New Email Digest List

Fri, 29 Apr 2022 08:00:23 -0400

As I continue to tweak the blog along with my content automation I found that it’s pretty easy to bundle things up into an email newsletter/digest that can be sent out several times a week.

If you’d like to see me in your inbox several days a week I set up a new digest email list that will go out with a much greater frequency vs. this one.

It will consist of any new content I push out on YouTube along with interesting links I came across throughout the day/week. This content is the same as what will be posted to my blog and other social platforms.

Welcome to my New Blog!

Tue, 26 Apr 2022 09:56:23 -0400

Hello everyone!

Lately I’ve been very interested in reclaiming my content from all of the various platforms I’ve put stuff on over the years. For a long time I would put posts like this up on Medium and post it separately to Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

But the home base was never mine.

So I am establishing a new home base for my text based content. And from here I’ll be linking out to all of my other stuff vs. the other way around.

I am building this with a really neat open source project/app called Hugo. What I like about Hugo is that it goes back to the simpler days of the web where plain old HTML is served up vs. some prone to hacking blogging engine that will need constant updates.

Hugo renders a website from Markdown files. When I edit or create a new post I run Hugo, do a quick sync with my FTP server on the web host and I’m done. I don’t have to keep track of updating plugins or CMS engines and it’s relatively easy to switch templates if I don’t like the look. And because everything is pre-rendered it loads super fast and is much easier to run through a CDN down the road if the unlikely event I become a prolific blogger. And yes, it supports RSS.

All that said this is not necessarily easier to set up and maintain vs. a Wordpress site. But it’s mine.

This rabbit hole all started with a recent video that I did on podcasting and culminated with a deep dive back into RSS.

I’m not sure how often I’ll post here but I am going to be experimenting with automation to see what cool things I can do with this.

Stay tuned!