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?
It strikes me there’s a kind of assumption around journalism that it somehow needs bespoke tools to do its job in the new digital media world. But actually I think it should stick to its existing strengths. In the spirit of research, I’ve just visited the Royal College of Art summer graduation show to check out […]
So – no sign of the post I was expecting on my Twitter account, but Twitterfeed managed to pull out my previous post about the Yemeni air crash. Something’s working – I’m just not sure what it is. [Twitterfeed update UPDATE: Of course, this post has made it in. Which looks silly…]
The Online Journalism Blog says RSS is dead and newspapers should abandon their useless RSS news feeds for Twitter. As the OJB is such an authority, when it says “jump”, I obviously ask “how high?”. And then, sheeplike, I swap my no-doubt useless RSS feed for a link to my Twitter account. How easy will this be? […]