Tag: blogging

Content farms, old school journalism, and Formula One

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Joe Saward, a decidedly old school journalist who has strong views on the modern web and sports reporting The secret of the F1 media is that it is like a pond. If you drop a stone in the middle, the waves will radiate outwards. The middle is made up the relatively small group of reporters, most of them English. The vast majority of F1 websites have no access at all to the F1 paddock and they are simply part of the ripples on the F1 pond, taking the story from the centre and spreading it. I should flag up at

#Back2Blog and my current thinking around this blog

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An interesting post from Stephanie Tara caught my eye last week – she was ‘rebooting’ her blog with the #Back2Blog hashtag, and committing to ten blog posts over ten days. For the next ten days [starting Monday 24th June, today], I’m going to write a post a day. I’ll keep it short: blogging used to be quick and dirty, and somewhere between the arrival of Facebook and Twitter, posts have started growing into long essays that take hours to write… How short is short? Roughly a screenful. Not more. I have a ton of ideas to blog about, and view

A consistent podcast is a flexible podcast

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One of the initial attractions to podcasting is the ability to listen to a show whenever you want to – be it in the car, the daily jog along the boardwalk, or on a long flight across the Atlantic.  I think this freedom for the listener has been one of the strengths that has made podcasting what it is today. More thoughts on staying regular over on the Blog World Expo blog.

Rangers, Tax, Blogs, and the Scottish Media

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And this is where multimedia journalism stakes its claim for recognition – in dogged, single-issue pursuit.  It’s hard for newspapers and the mainstream media to focus in on just one story and dissect it forensically for months on end, whereas sites such as Rangers Tax Case, Sheridan Trial Blog and so forth can expend their time and energy on just the one subject. When the Press Award nominations are announced next year, I wouldn’t be shocked to find Rangers Tax Case failing to make the list, largely because their presence would make for an uncomfortable night for many of the

Do you still need a blog to blog?

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Not generally, but for people like me? We communicate our lives, by necessity not choice, in phrases, pictures, soundbites. We narrate our days in imagery and our exploits in links. Maybe it’s time to try a new approach, to move Feastcraft to Posterous or Tumblr, retain the URL, and move from once-a-week long-form to twice-daily curation of images, links, videos, and the occasional rant. There’s been changes around these parts as well (more on that after a month of numbers and stats, then I’ll talk about it), but Jonas Luster lays out the thinking that many of us have had.