Anyone publishing to the Web needs to accept the importance of a catchy image, graphic or photo. The color can spruce up a site — bringing in word-resistent readers and making something simple seem more design friendly — and affect readership. But many average PC users out there blogging — or even those just looking [...]

Of course they do. Because just like news organizations, the niche pays and the general does not. I’m not writing this from experience, of course, because as a young freelance journalist, it’s nothing I’ve developed. But, in more than a half year, I have at least learned that any freelance writer, journalist, Web developer, grant [...]

Updated: July 2, 2009 @ 11:43 p.m. with another app. Updated again: Sept. 16, 2009 @ 10:12 p.m. The world doesn’t need another Twitter post. But, with the surging number of third-party Twitter applications and posts and stories surrounding the buzz service of the moment, I find it’s easy to get lost. Admittedly, I’ve done [...]

I have submitted a story or post of mine to Digg three times in a half-year of membership. I readily know that I have friends who’ll swear that number is larger. I recently pledged to work on limiting my own shameless self-promotion and, admittedly, nothing is dirtier than submitting your own work to Digg or [...]

You should be blogging, even if casually and infrequently and briefly. I’ve already said that journalists of all stripes, anyone interested in media, research or anything in which your writing, your name and your credibility is best served defended and re-defended somewhere it can be found. One of the best reasons to traipse into this [...]

I don’t want to repeat this anymore, so let me direct you elsewhere. I got an e-mail from a young aspiring journalist, still in high school and already coming to the questions I just started coming upon late in college. Her question: how do you buy spaces on a google seerch? Hey, even she will [...]

Has anyone ever successfully used an elevator pitch? I don’t know if I believe preparing a 15-second statement about myself in preparation for when a professional idol, mentor or potential employer-of-my-dream-job asks for it, perhaps in an elevator, is really anything more than HR lingo. But I took three minutes to make one anyway. Why [...]

I got a comment from “Mike” on a post early last month. Interesting post. Curious on why you say “MySpace is lame.” I read recently that MySpace is among the most-visited Web sites with over 1b visits per month… Of course he is right. MySpace remains one of the most popular Web sites in the [...]

Dan Rubin is asking for your advice. The metro columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer, a big urban daily newspaper, wants you to tell him what direction Blinq, his blog, should go. Rubin is crowdsourcing advice on Web 2.0 and, unfortunately, is getting mostly garbage comments from Philly.com’s noted crowd of bottom-feeders – the reasons why [...]

I’m always surprised and really proud to see my unique visitors and subscriptions increasing and love nothing more than a fresh comment to help create a dialogue I try to highlight on this site. Now, that has happily been a fairly regular occurrence for a good portion of this site’s one-year plus existence. Still, sometimes [...]