The art and craft of the personal blog â and the business of blogging as part of the creator economy.
adam tinworth
I can hardly believe it, but today is the fifth anniversary of this blog. Back in March 2003, I decided that this blogging thing was going to make a huge difference to the way journalists worked, and I ought to get more serious about it than my Livejournal allowed. As
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Last week, I received an e-mail from Neil Thurman at City University, suggesting that I check out his new research on user generated conten [http://www.city.ac.uk/journalism/people/faculty/thurman_publications.html]t. I though âlooks interestingâ, but by the time I got around to looking at
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Whatâs this in my in-box? Why, itâs an e-mail from Laura Oliver [http://www.journalism.co.uk/36/42/]. mentioning that journalism.co.uk is running a poll on the Max Gogarty business from last week [http://www.journalism.co.uk/journalists/forum/index.php/topic,515.msg1094.
ablogisnotapost
Ectoplasmosis [http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2008/02/17/the-guardian-godwins-itself-over-gogarty/] : > PPS: Note to print journalists like [Rafael Behr](http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/rafael_behr/2008/02/backpackers_bullies_and_intern.html) deigning to comment on the Internet â nothing makes you look more clueless and out-of-touch than when
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The writer? Certainly. It seems clear that he jumped into this without really understanding what blogging is about â or, indeed, the nature of the audience he was writing for. And, frankly, thatâs just bad journalism. Writing a blog post a bit like a humorous sidebar in a travel feature
bloggers
[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2008/02/gutravellog.png] My colleague Emily just dropped a few of us an e-mail with a link to this travel blog on *The Guardianâ*s website [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/travelog/2008/02/skins_blog.html]: > Hello. Iâ
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Due to a possible moment of irrationality, or incipient nervous breakdown, the good folks at Journalism.co.uk [http://www.journalism.co.uk/] have decided to include my feed in the Best of the Journalism Blogs [http://www.journalism.co.uk/36/34/]. Stop sniggering at the back. Itâs
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4. Internet Flame Wars Journalists really donât do this. They donât get involved enough in a discussion most of the time to allow a flame war to beginâŚ5. People who think that pretending to have an intelligent conversation (using good grammar, of course) can cover up their
blog azeroth
First up: what was the motivation for starting the site?âWell, [Bellwether](http://4haelz.blogspot.com/) was lamenting the fact that she and I kept writing about similar things and wished there were a way for druids to get together and talk once a month⌠I figured that gettng together
action streams
An interesting couple of days in blogging technology: * Automattic announced the Prologue theme for WordPress.com [http://wordpress.com/blog/2008/01/28/introducing-prologue/], which seems to be an attempt to create Twitter-like functionality to their platform for workgroups * Genial Chris Alden announced some major changes coming to Typepad [http:
Blogging
Somethingâs been bothering me for a while. Itâs been wriggling around in my head as I go through the âwhat is bloggingâ spiel for the umpteenth time to one of our journalists. It irritates me late at night, when I should be thinking about more important things like
Blogging
Hereâs a thought. This way of describing one key element of blogging to journalists just popped into my head: > âRead the blog post. If you know the writer in person, can you hear them saying it? If not, theyâre not blogging yet.â Good? Bad? Indifferent? One of
