All Blog Posts Tagged 'blog' (10)

Once-paid blogger rejects Oakland Press offer to blog for free

The Oakland Press is making news again. Hat tip to Paper Tiger No More, which led me to T.C. Cameron's blog The Write Referee and the post "Sacked by Citizen Journalism." Cameron says that an email… Continue

Added by Mary Ann Chick Whiteside on April 1, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Can I feed my Wordpress blog into my ning blogs ...

... or vice versa? Not really interested in feeding to the sidebar on my ning page, which no one looks at. I do that at visualeditors.ning.com; I'm pretty sure no one knows but me.

I have no trouble feeding into my crappy handmade page. So why not in this slick, 2.0-friendly ning universe — which contains actual people I'd like to connect with?

Seems like there'd be an obvious widget or strand of code for this, so one person may have… Continue

Added by Jim McBee on March 14, 2009 at 8:28pm — 2 Comments

Refocusing

It's been a while since I blogged here. I have problems blogging on a regular basis for whatever reason. I also get off track on Twitter every now and then.

Whatever.

The nice part about the Web is that it can constantly be reinvented. It's with that that I'm refocusing my efforts. I'm making a push to post more about innovations in delivering the news as well as the business model for doing so (less time bashing curmudgeons and talking about… Continue

Added by Paul Balcerak on February 19, 2009 at 12:34am — 2 Comments

In the newsroom: You and everyone else

This is the fifth and final part of my "First Year in Journalism" series of thoughts. Also see: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4.

The first thing I… Continue

Added by Paul Balcerak on February 10, 2009 at 1:00am — No Comments

The live Web: buildings vs. rivers

Doc Searls doesn't say which industry he was talking to, but in describing the static nature of their Web sites, it could easily have been newspapers:

They were architected, designed and constructed. They were conceived and built on the real estate model: domains with addresses, places people could visit. They were necessary and sufficient for the old Static Web, but lacked sufficiency for the Live…

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Added by Matt Neznanski on September 29, 2008 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Homegrown hyperlocal

Banging the hyperlocal drum isn't anything new, but the big problem I've had with it is that as a reporter, chicken-dinner news is -- frankly -- a bore.

I do subscribe to the notion that the workings of government, grassroots advocacy and local characters all add up to an understanding of the formal "living in a city" coverage that a news organization should report. But when it comes to little details, it can turn "beat reporter" into a declarative statement.

So when I read… Continue

Added by Matt Neznanski on September 24, 2008 at 5:00pm — 1 Comment

(Re)Building a blog network.

Oregon bloggers have been benefiting from a site called ORBlogs since 2003, an aggregator that allowed bloggers to be listed and promote content and gave readers a chance to find them by location or popularity.

ORBlogs founder (who had a hand in creating code for the original Blogger software) Paul Bausch said it was just getting to be too much for one person to handle and is throwing in the towel:

When I started ORblogs in…

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Added by Matt Neznanski on September 10, 2008 at 1:18pm — 3 Comments

Focus, man!

I'm a regular reader of Jeff Jarvis' BuzzMachine blog. His posts about new media, we media, newspaper woes and the like are typically spot-on and spark creative thinking almost every day.

But I've got to admit that his political posturing is getting a bit tiresome. He's a Hillary supporter and he's often pissed that Obama gets a… Continue

Added by Matt Neznanski on May 5, 2008 at 11:40pm — No Comments

One journalist's "Secret"

I got an interesting — OK, well really just an, if you want to get technical — response to my first blog on the sorry state of journalism.

Casey Cora, another Wired Journalist, sent along this suggestion to my droaning about how the business is "tanking":

"The scariest part is that most people under the age of, say, 30 years old, don't really seem to give a shit."

(You can check out my full blog… Continue

Added by Paul Balcerak on April 14, 2008 at 7:31pm — 1 Comment

Starting a “personal” Web site: Just do it

(Full disclosure: I posted this at Meranda Writes, and then realized I should post it here as well since some of you aren't readers.)

I posted a discussion at the Get wired, get hired group in reference to… Continue

Added by Meranda Watling on January 30, 2008 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment