BusinessWeek starts a blog by writing a news article that looks like a blog post about blogging. Well, at least they got the self-referencial part.
Fortunately, they got the tone right, too:
Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most explosive outbreak in [...]
Not the day, the detective.
In lieu of a light, meaningless story about some trivial aspect of my life, I’d thought I’d treat you to something more substantial. I don’t claim to be knowledgable about anything, but I am quick to use new technology to help do the things I want to do, so here’s [...]
Three years ago, when I decided if I was going to get an undergraduate degree in anything, it might as well be journalism, I had no idea the profession was about to undergo major changes. Everything changed within days of my setting foot at the J-school: September 11th. Then Jayson Blair, Stephen Glass, the war [...]
No post today. Those two things are not necessarily related.
I’m preparing a presentation on blogs and RSS for our next staff meeting at work, and I thought I’d talk a little about what I’ve found and what I think.
Most of the people I work with are familiar with blogs to varying degrees. A few people regularly read at least one (Kos, Drudge, The [...]
NPR has been running a series on creative spaces; the environments authors, actors, musicians and others find most conducive to creativity. Last week was writer Daniel Silva, who holes himself up in a basement room no one is allowed to enter. No one, except NPR and its millions of listeners.
This week was Felicia Rashad, the [...]
Well, I was going to keep this a secret as long as possible, knowing the huge public outcry it would cause, but I finally decided you had a right to know: I’m going to quit writing.
Yep. That’s right. Hear those loud booms? Those are the pillars of humanity crumbling. Well, I hope insurance covers [...]
Writing is a peculiar thing. It\’s like urinating; most people can only do it under certain conditions. I have a friend who can\’t pee if there are other people at the urinals. It\’s not that he doesn\’t want to; he just can\’t.
Writing is like that for me. I can\’t write if there are people around, [...]
I woke this morning with a nagging feeling that I had dreamt of a really great topic to write about. And now that I think about it, I\’m sure I did; it was one of those moments when you think \”I must find a word-recording machine urgently.\”
Except that I wasn\’t awake. So the best I [...]
Yup. My bad.
This week was crap*, both in terms of word count and quality. This is the beginning of my fifth month of daily blogging (although it\’s not really blogging, since I usually just publish one long post a day). There are now 126 posts in the database, and if you figure each one is [...]