There’s a nice rant over at Fleet Street Blues decrying the media’s current seeming obsession with the delivery of media content over its practice. The best thing about journalism isn’t blogging, or Twittering, or finding innovative multimeeja ways to tell a story, or even asking someone difficult questions Paxman-style. It’s about finding something out that no one […]
Much media kerfuffle about the news that teenagers aren’t interested in Twitter. Well – crucially, that they’re not interested in using it from their mobile phone, which costs money. The piece in question, from the Financial Times, reports on a research note from Morgan Stanley written by 15-year-old intern Matthew Robson. (The note is available […]
Not getting your news from the newspapers? Just Buy One Anyway. Help these newspaper professionals trapped in a dying industry… How can you look into those soulful newsdesk eyes and fail to dig deep?
As a kind of coda to this week’s series on blog longevity, here’s a nice (and long) video from Tim Ferriss about how to make blogging easy. Lots of good stuff here. https://videopress.com/v/wp-content/plugins/video/flvplayer.swf?ver=1.12 Key points: You don’t have to post every day (he posts two or three times a week) Write your passion – not […]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5 The last part of this series on keeping a blog going beyond the point at which most people give up is all about interaction. 5) Have a conversation Blogging is a lonely business – which is why most people prefer hanging out on Facebook with […]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5 The fourth part of this week’s series on keeping your blog going is about readership. 4) Build an audience A big problem for the new blogger is writing into a void. Without a readership or feedback, generating posts can feel pretty pointless. The solution at […]
I’ve been meaning to put this together for a while. They’re more or less sequential and all in chronological order. Sadly a whole pile of papers I was collecting got ditched when I turned my back, but this crop pretty much reeks of the fear and loathing that infected the City at the end of […]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5 Part three of a series on how to keep going with a blog, even when you’d rather stick pencils in your eyes rather than open another bloody WordPress window. Today, advice to alleviate the loneliness of the long-distance blogger. 3) Pace yourself It’s difficult enough […]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5 Yesterday’s tip for blogging longevity was all about strategy. Today’s is more about content. 2) Have a focus This is all about what the blog is creatively, rather than strategically. You can blog about anything, obviously, but it helps to have a focus creatively. However, […]
The Mail on Sunday‘s Facebook/MI6 revelations are something of a digital media wet dream, combining espionage, social networking and Nazi historians in a way that is almost the highbrow version of Friday’s midget/wrestling/hooker fest. There’s a lot going on here of interest – and it’s worth coming back to. But for now, though, it’s enough […]