Posted on December 21, 2004 8:00 am by Shel Holtz | General
The Poynter Institute’s Steve Outing offers a thoughtful piece on what mainstream journalists can learn from bloggers. (Later this week he plans another installment that turns the tables, exploring lessons bloggers can learn from traditional journalism.)
Among the lessons for journalists:
- The best bloggers publish what they have, disclose what’s confirmed and what’s not, then let readers decide for themselves what’s important
- In some cases, it may make…
Posted on December 20, 2004 11:26 am by Shel Holtz | General
Need an quick review of some of the key aspects of good Web writing? Take a look at the Inc.com piece by Anne Stuart. While it doesn’t cover everything—it’s a Web article, not a book or full-day workshop—it’s still a useful summary.
Posted on December 20, 2004 11:05 am by Shel Holtz | General
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine offers a piece by Jeffrey Rosen about Wonkette’s speculation over who Jessica Cutler slept with.
Okay, there’s more to the story than that. Jessica Cutler is the 26-year-old mail sorter for US Senator Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) who supplemented her $25,000-a-year Senate income by sleeping with guys for money, then posted about it on her blog, Washingtonienne. Once Wonkette’s Ana…
Posted on December 20, 2004 10:47 am by Shel Holtz | General
As blogging heats up, we hear more and more about the potential (or lack thereof) for making money from your blog. I expect to make plenty of money from my blog, but the income will be generated indirectly via new business that comes my way based on expanded visibility and heightened credibility. I think they call that “marketing.”
But for those of you who…
Posted on December 17, 2004 9:32 am by Shel Holtz | General
Ned Lundquist squeezes a lot of work into the same 24-hour day the rest of us have. He produces the enormously successful Job of the Week (JOTW) mailing list as a volunteer gig. He has a job. He has a family. He’s the accreditation marketing honcho for IABC (another volunteer assignment), doing more with the role than we’ve seen in years. You’d…
Posted on December 17, 2004 9:17 am by Shel Holtz | General
Regular readers of this blog will remember my open letter to Ragan Report co-editor David Murray, a post that generated 47 comments. The post was a response to Murray’s editorial comment that PR-focused bloggers needed to back off of their efforts to give the communications profession a push toward recognizing the importance of blogs. Murray—a longtime friend and the world’s youngest curmudgeon—noted…
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