Fragmented Blogging

This isn’t another one of those “Sorry for Not Blogging” posts.
I’m working out the editorial calendar for the next phase of this blog, where I intend to do a bit more long-form writing in support of my current research project. Hence, I’ve been a little less active until I work out my writing calendar.
However, that [...]

The Realities of Being a Writer in the Age of New Media

As always, Tony Pierce is the man. Here’s what he had to say to a group of young aspiring Journalists the other day (straight from the legendary BusBlog):
i said you might come into the office and they look at you and say, can you make it to LAX to interview the CEO of Virgin and [...]

How to Get Blogging Credentials for the DNC Convention

For all you aspiring bloggers out there who wonder how to get press credentials to cover the Democratic nominating convention, DailyKos has a great post explaining this process, with links to supporting material. Very informative, and I hope at least one of our Kentucky blogs will be there.

Microblogging: Scoble Show Interviews Jaiku Founders

As many of you are aware, I’ve been interested in the various uses for blogging in an academic setting, and have experimented with a variety of platforms for this (I’m looking into using Vox for a social blogging experiement in a political theory class this fall, and probably WordPress.com for a groupblogging project in a [...]

Open Left and other progressive blogs

I just wanted to give a shout-out to a new Progressive blog, Open Left. Open Left was started by Chris Bowers and Matt Stoller, formerly of MyDD. According to Chris and Matt, they left MyDD to start a site that would be focused less on party politics and elections, and more on building a broad [...]

How to be a Human Aggregator

Whether you are a hard-core blogger, information blogger or just a person with a healthy sense of curiousity about the world (information addict ), learning to be an efficient user, reader and processor of RSS feeds is an essential skill. In the following video (tip of the hat to MicroPersuasion), Human Aggregator robert Scoble explains [...]