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 […]
Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5 I’ve posted before on the usefulness of blogging as a tool for journalism graduates, and journalists trying to make the move from print to online. But a key challenge is how to keep going, day after day, week after week, month after grinding month. As […]
Midgets, hookers, wrestling: seriously – what more could a sub ask for?