Gosh, I do hate the buzz words that new media terms have become. A friend shared a post with an interesting graf: Journalists are obsessed with Twitter. Obsessed. They use it, talk about it, analyze it, deconstruct it, reconstruct it, love it, hate it, capitalize on it, become experts on it, monetize it, argue about [...]

Last month I mentioned the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Harrisburg bureau Commonwealth Confidential blog didn’t own its own name in a Web search. Well, a Google search today shows that they got it right now. Why’d it take so long and what else can we learn? Number of Views:118

If you are a budding journalist, or trying to break back into the game, if you’re a writer, a poet, an editor or aspiring movie star, if you want to be on TV or on radio, why aren’t you blogging? If only just a bit. Newspapers are trying to establish themselves by these online rules, [...]

Blogs will help kill newspapers. Careful, that’s only if newspaperdotcoms continue to see blogs as competition. Of course, anyone with interest in learning better knows blogging can be a tool to spread content further and wider than ever before. Let me tell you how I believe newspaper blogs can help save newspapers. Number of Views:185

There are blogs and there are bloggers. There are mainstream blogs and there are those that aren’t. Blogging, in my mind, isn’t necessarily, but a new transition that is one part of a test of big media. Can they develop and innovate quickly enough? Below find my 10 favorite journalist bloggers: reporters associated with a [...]

We had a good conversation on the merit of full-text or partial feeds on a post recently that I never got to address. I got a few e-mails on the matter, too, actually. (No surprise they were as conflicted as the comments) What we all seemed to agree on is that newspapers (or any RSS [...]

Why does a Google search of “Commonwealth Confidential,” the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Harrisburg state capital bureau blog, yield no direct results, but rather links to some of their posts? Because they haven’t reached out to the blogosphere and received in return the currency of the Internet – incoming links. This isn’t something I put on the [...]

Tomorrow 2009 begins. Instead of doing a top ten list of posts like most, I want to review the year in important journalism-related blog posts. There are  a lot of bloggers who focus on journalism. From grizzled veterans, tech geeks and corporate stiffs who are looking for the future, to those who blog the news, [...]

I did a lot of blogging here and elsewhere in 2008. Care for a review? Publications: Super Tuesday Blog — writing about a younger perspective on the 2008 presidential primaries for WHYY, the Philadelphia NPR affiliate Broad & Cecil — a news blog I helped launch for The Temple News, my college newspaper Philadelphia Partisan [...]

You gotta give something to get something, man. So, I’m tired of newspapers ignoring the details of an RSS feed. In a mobile world, I have to believe that choosing what Internet news, information, and blog updates come to you will be the future. So why aren’t newspapers figuring out the details? Number of Views:124