- What is the best time of the day to blog?
If your primary audience lives in America, then the time around 8 AM ET (Eastern Time Zone - that is, New York time), give or take an hour before or after, is the best time to blog your post to ensure that it gets the mo…
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- Gay Talese's #1 tip for today's writers and reporters
Gay Talese, one of the pioneers of literary journalism, wrote "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," in 1966, a feature story that became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published. In a lecture at the Indiana Univ…
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- Four ways we learn through blogging
These are the four benefits of blogging to educate yourself.
1. Blog as a dump of knowledge: Write a series of articles on the major issues in your industry/topic.
2. Blog as a way to ask deep questions about your ind…
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- Summary of 31 Days to Build a Better Blog: The Success Manual
This is a summary from Darren Rowse's popular book '31 Days to Build a Better Blog'.
[From the 100 Ways To Be Being Remarkable Series, a special project that brings you business and self-development advice from The Su…
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- 30+ Blogging Lessons From Problogger Darren Rowse: The Success Manual
Here is some of the best blogging wisdom from Darren Rowse, who is perhaps the ost successful single blogger till date. He founded the Problogger and Digital Photography School blogs.
[From the 100 Ways To Be Being Re…
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- My 10 Favorite Indian Bloggers Who Really Count
I was reading the Times' list of 40 notable bloggers the other day. Inspiration enough for me to go looking into my Google Reader account and make a list of 100 Indian blogs that I read often. I reached one-tenth of targ…
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- 15 ways to promote a Local Blog
A quick guide on blog promotion for local bloggers of the world:
1. Social networking sites: Facebook, Orkut...start groups like....[your locality] news group
2. Social news sites: Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Propeller...par…
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- Online Journalism Handbook: How to go after big business
Mike Morgan is a blogger who likes to take on big business. A few years back, he took on US homebuilder Lennar by setting up a website to collect information on faulty workmanship in its homes. Now, Mike has taken on inv…
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- How to Succeed in Local Blogging
The underlying assumption is that a local blogger does not have the back up enjoyed by a reporter belonging to a resourceful news organization. So, being tenecious and scrappy is a given.
1. Have Passion for whatever…
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- Types of local Bloggers
Matt Mcgee has written a good post about various types of local bloggers. It is a nice introductin to a field that holds much promise in a post-newspapers era.
1. The Business Blogger
2. The News Blogger
3. The Social…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Seven kinds of stories you should be doing often
This quick and dirty guide to what you must write online on a day-to-day basis is meant to help you come up with story ideas for your newsblog. Items #1, #2 and #3 you should be doing often on your blog. They are easy to…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: 7 hard blogging facts behind the myths of blogging as a career choice
It is true that there are too many blogs but only a small fraction of these blogs is well targeted, constantly maintained and diligently promoted everywhere on the internet. So, read below and prepare yourself for a long…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: 7 things you should know about blogging
Blogging is an affordable way to be an online publisher. You can do it in different languages. You can post anything you like: photos, videos, podcasts, surveys...An average blog hosting package costs around $142 for 2 …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: the Essentials of Blogging
This breezy guide takes you through all the importnt details about the blogging process: planning, what to write about, styles of blogging and more...
Planning a blog in 3 simple steps
Step 1: Your motives {WHY)
…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: How to Write for the Web
A guide written by the pioneering usability experts Jacob Nielsen and John Morkes famously said this in 1997, 12 years ago:
Make your writing concise, SCANNABLE, and Objective.
A summary of the article:
- Users …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: seven successful Video blogging models
As you very well know, online video, especially news video is very big. So big that Youtube, which Google bought in 2006, now accounts for more than a quarter of traffic to all Google-owned sites.
So, what types of Vi…
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: A simpleguide to professional blogging
An average blog in the Technorati Top 100 blog list is at least 33 months old. This guide to professional blogging is based on Technorati's State of the Blogosphere 2008, a result of a survey of over 1000 bloggers in 66 …
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- The Online Journalism Handbook: Why Journalists must blog
There is no other way to go about it, so here goes: as a journalist, you must blog to see how humbling, educating and eventually beneficial this is going to be for your career considering the always-on, online, always-up…
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- Live coverage of the Terror attacks in the New York Times and The BBC
Keith Bradser of the Times is covering the fight b/w the security forces and the terrorists via his Blackberry here.
Some live updates from the BBC can be accessed here.
Next: Read 2500+ consumer guides to shopping, e…
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- simplelist: 10 exciting tools to roll your own Twitter-like microblogging applications
The success of Twitter has made people sit and take notice. Short form messaging has its uses. As a result, people have gone ahead and made their own open source and business-oriented Twitter-like applications. A short l…
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