Save the Media

Time for short-takes: interesting posts from my travels around the blogosphere.
Branding yourself: No, I’m not talking cattle branding here. I’m talking about branding yourself as a journalist, as in getting your name out there. Journalists today need to market themselves. People need to be able to find your name, your blog, your Linked-In profile as [...]

Let’s pause for a little bit of shameless self-promotion: OK, folks, you can mosey on over to Thou Shall Blog if you’d like. I have a guest blog there.
It’s a primer on how to edit yourself. Sure, the blogosphere is great — no editors to get in your way. But also no editors to correct [...]

So you’ve started your blog, you’ve named it. Now you need to start reading. Yes, I said reading, not writing.
Now I don’t mean just sit there and read all day, but if you’re going to blog well you need to read news sites,  other blogs in your niche and techie blogs. And you need to engage [...]

Jeff Jarvis, a City University of New York associate professor who blogs about the media at Buzz Machine, raised a good point about my list of 10 Tips for Journalists Who Blog. I didn’t mention linking. I didn’t because I felt it was such a key topic that it warranted its own post, but I [...]