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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
It seems that “the long tail of blogging is dying”. For those who prefer English to techie jargon, the long tail refers to the millions of blogs with few incoming links, compared to a relatively small number of dominant blogs with many thousands of readers and lots of presence in the wider web. But this […]
Here’s a very interesting post by, of all things, a Belgian linguistic researcher, about the differences between print and online journalism. I like its academic slant (something which often puts me off), as it actually helps to illuminate the murky way that news journalism is constructed and then passed off as something whole and authoritative. […]
Shocking though it is to say, as I’m not a huge Guardian fan, The Guardian‘s comment on the unmasking of a police blogger by The Times is spot on. Crucially, Guardian digital content director Emily Bell recognised The Times‘s move was: No surprise given that old publishing models benefit from restriction rather than spread of […]
To celebrate a tiny milestone in the progress of Freelance Unbound – the 100th post – here’s an item by a journalist who has gone over to the dark side and set up a site whose purpose is – gasp! – to make money from web media. Julia Scott left a newspaper job to set […]