I try to read a lot of books. Mostly nonfiction. Mostly in my interests, so I tend to finish them. But some I never get through, because of time or it doesn’t hit me at the right time.
I still often get a few takeaways from what i start. Here are a few of those.
Continue reading Takeaways from books I started but never finished
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.
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 mainstream medium who actively blog.
Where should your videos be uploaded and hosted online?
I was having a bear of a time with this decision for a new venture that I will announce in coming months.
What it comes down to is that it really matters what you want to do with it.
Don’t think there is only one solution to the question.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial is in left field of a well-worn baseball field, wedged between the icy Potamac River and the city’s Tidal Basin.
Tonight, so is a strange encampment of brown tents, bright lights and vehicles with federal government license plates.
Continue reading Strange encampment near FDR Memorial in Washington D.C.
Where do you store your photos online? I’ve used at least five different services and currently have three active accounts and can’t say I’m sold on any of them.
Read my thoughts and share your own. Am I missing out on the go-to place to store, save and share photographs?
Continue reading Photo Web sites online: do any win out as the best?
I did a lot of blogging here and elsewhere in 2008. Care for a review?
Publications:
Below see some specific posts from those publications.
Continue reading Blogging elsewhere in 2008: a highlight reel
It’s Christmastime in the city.
U.S. center cities of all shapes and sizes can expect a wave of traffic, from the exurbs, the suburbs, the neighborhoods and outside the region. They come for shopping and sightseeing and, really, the setting that your city will create, with lights, decorations, atmosphere, a tree and cheer.
So, on Christmas Eve, why not figure out how we can do it better.
Continue reading Center City Philadelphia at Christmas: how our city and yours can do it better
Choosing carefully when to post to your Web site, whether you are a newspaper or a blogger, is supposed to be a boon to your traffic.
Insightful Web analytics, they tell me, are the golden ticket to blossoming attention. So what time should you be posting?
Continue reading When to forward post to meet your Web traffic: the busiest times on the Internet
How many e-mail addresses do you have in your address book?
Sources have been important to journalists of all shape and caliber for the profession’s entire history, perhaps even more so for freelancers, who are guiding a ship and finding their story pitches on their own. But in an age of social networks and e-mail clients, it’s important to reevaluate how you’re collecting, retaining and organizing your sources.
Continue reading How developed is your contact list: freelance journalists better become collectors