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.
Ever think about the best stories you’ve ever read?
What’s special about newsprint is how we clip those stories. We save them. I wanted to collect my favorite journalism pieces of my short life and share them with you. I have wanted to do this for sometime.
Below, find my five favorite and a slew of my favorites from 2008, more generally than my favorite Philadelphia pieces of the year that I shared earlier this month.
Continue reading My five favorite pieces of journalism ever (and of 2008)
The 2008 list-spree continues here, and, really, I hope to build on this next year.
No one makes the sensible move to keep a check on the best stories in the fourth biggest media market in the country.
Below, in chronological order, find my seven favorite pieces of journalism from the city’s largest and most influential publications.
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 world. I have a MySpace profile page, too. So why do I still contend it’s one of the lamest sites on the Internet?
Continue reading Why MySpace sucks, is lame: its shortcomings and possibilities
Updated 6/27/10 @ 8:50 p.m.: Added additional Gmail improvement suggestions
Yeah, we’re all on Google’s bird. It may be a phenomenon, financially and socially, but I still have my complaints. I’m sure you do too (even if you just blame them for killing newspapers, like the French do.)
As Google applications have grown in popularity during the past few years, journalists have taken to see Google aps as a way to better unite newsrooms.
The advantages are clear, but having only used Google aps for a couple years, and a couple for half that, but I have already found a number of faults with these free Web-based services, particularly for journalists.
Continue reading My problems with Google applications: holes in these journalism tools
Today is Jan. 2, 2009.
Looks like you ought to find something new to read. For me, there are those books I can’t seem to put down, even if I’ve already read them and have a stack of new stories I hope to try.
In 2008, I returned to more old friends than I normally do. Below, see the five books to which I returned and why you should give them a go if you haven’t, or a second look if you can.
Continue reading Five books I reread in 2008 that you should try in 2009
Everyone does their lots of lists to end of the year. So, consider this my wishing you a grand, happy and successful 2009 and my doing just that.
I celebrated my one-year anniversary on this site early December with some of my most popular and favorite posts, so, because they might otherwise overlap, this is strictly my five most viewed posts of 2008.
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, and younger cats like me, who have some of the experience, all the enthusiasm and a fresh perspective to offer. Yes, while some have written newspaper obituaries, some are looking toward the future.
So, with all of us running around blabbing on about new media and the future of newspapers, it turns out that every once in a while something I think is pretty meaningful comes to light. This year has been a big one, so below, in my humble opinion, see a guide to 12 months of the best journalism-related blog posts of 2008.
It’s a new year, so it’s time for resolutions. Here are my professional ideas, as I shared some more specific personal ones here.
Here are a few I’ve been thinking about:
Those are my clearest objectives for 2009. What are yours?
This is where I will post any potential biases or conflicts of interest. I do not feel the below work or relationships cloud my ethics as a journalist, but transparency is of the utmost importance.
If you have any questions or comments, contact me here. To see a more complete list of my work and professional experiences here.
I have listed the above facts because some may think they could affect my ability to fill my roll as a freelance journalist and blogger here.
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