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Figuring
Out Blogs and Whatever's Next
The
best blogs for and by journalists and how you can join the blogging
revolution as a reader and/or creator of blogs. Also: Podcasting, Web
2.0, wikis, RSS and whatever's next
Links from a two-hour workshop by Sree
Sreenivasan
Columbia New Media Professor & WNBC-TV Tech Reporter
Free AUDIO classes:
- Blog CAT Scan: RoopaRecipes with Roopa Unnikrishnan
- Blog CAT Scan: Birds, Bats & Beyond with Jim Wright
- Best Practices: Blogging for Journalists with David Kohn
Video lecture: Blogs Every Professional Should Know & Web 101: Understanding Blogs, Wikis, Social Networking, Mobile Internet
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BLOGGING FOR JOURNALISTS blog: http://bloggingforjournalists.blogsome.com
CHANGING MEDIA LANDSCAPE: click
here to see my continuously updated list of articles, statistics and
resources
There is much confusion about blogs, bloggers and blogging. Is this the end of journalism as we know it? Or is it just another small step in the evolution of media? What about photoblogging, videoblogging, podcasting, Web 2.0, tagging RSS and whatever's next? Answers to these questions and more in this, fast, fun, workshop (1.5 to three hours) - adapted for each audience.
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TOPICS COVERED BY THE WORKSHOP:
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SOME - JUST SOME - BLOGS TO CHECK OUT
LISTS OF BLOGS, RANKINGS & SEARCHING BLOGS
- The Bloggies
- Blogging About Blogs
- About.com Weblogs
- NYT Guide to Blogs
- Dan Sifry's "State of the Blogosphere" stats (doubling in size every six months for 42 months+)
- Technorati+Technorati 100 - search blogs + the "Billboard chart" of blogs
- Linkology:
NY Mag explains the Technorati top 50
- SEARCH THE BLOGOSPHERE: Sphere | Google Blog Search
- Blogdex - tracks "most contagious" information
- Feedmap - find blogs on a map
- Blogdigger
- find local blogs - also
see NYCbloggers.com
- Blogs to Riches: The Have and Have-nots of the Blogging Boom - NY Mag, Feb. 2006 cover story
- How the Top Bloggers Make Money (slideshow) | story - BusinessWeek, July 2006
- WNBC.com coverage of Blogger Summit 2007
- see Further Reading section below
CONSERVATIVE
- Instapundit - Glenn Reynolds, law professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Andrew Sullivan - a mainstream journalist blogs (now on Time.com)
- PowerLine - the folks who helped bring down Dan Rather
- Hugh Hewitt - radio talk show host and author
- Best of The Web Today - bloggish material from James Taranto from OpinionJournal.com (WSJ edit page)
LIBERAL
- Daily Kos (rhymes with "rose") - Markos Moulitsas Zúniga
- The Huffington Post - "delivering news & opinion since May 9, 2005"
- Talking Points Memo - Joshua Micah Marshall
- Political Animal - Kevin Drum, formerly CalPundit, now on WashingtonMonthly.com
- Altercation - Eric Alterman
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY BASHERS
- Oxblog - Americans in Oxford
- Kausfiles - Mickey Kaus
- Wonkette - DC gossip
- Gawker - NY gossip
- Defamer - LA gossip
- ValleyWag - SF gossip
BUSINESS
- Footnoted - company filings and more by Michelle Leder
- AdRants - advertising
- CitizenJoe - nonpartisan look at business and government
- Off the Runway - WashPost fashion editor Robin Givhan
- Working Parents - BW group blog
- BW's Blogspotting - BusinessWeek's tak
- Real Estate: OCR's Lansner on Real Estate | Curbed | CurbedLA | Brownstoner | The Walk-Through - NYT blog; now closed
- Yahoo! Business Blogs directory - 100+ business blogs
BLOGS ABOUT THE MEDIA
- Romenesko - Poynter's must-visit site
- TVNewser - Brian Stelter tracking TV news
- Eat The Press - blog about media from HuffPo
- FishbowlNY | FishbowlDC - tracking media gossip in NY, DC
- CJR Daily - a journalism review goes high-tech
- iWantMedia - lots of media news
- MediaBistro Daily News Feed - daily roundup
- BuzzMachine - Jeff Jarvis on media and more
- PaidContent.org - Rafat Ali tracking what people are paying for
- Lost Remote - convergence of TV and tech
- RegretTheError.com - tracking corrections across the media
- Newshounds.US - "we watch Fox you don't have to"
- Newsbusters.org - "exposing liberal media bias"
JOURNALISM & MSM BLOGS
- Cyberjournalist's list of journalists who blog - largest collection of J-bloggers
- Newspaper blogs (from NYU's Blue Plate Special):
Best blogging newspapers | State of blogging at 100 biggest newspapers | Bosses who blog - Magazine blogs
Ms. Magazine | National Review (see Blog Row) | Time | Newsweek | Scientific American - TV blogs
ABC News | CBS News | NBC News | CNN | Fox News - Radio blogs
NPR | WNYC
TECHNOLOGY/SCIENCE BLOGS
- Engadget & Gizmodo - technology
- LifeHack.org | LifeHacker.com - productivity and techie tips
- Boing Boing - "wonderful things"
- Cyberjournalist.net - Jon Dube on online journalism
- Mike's eJournal - Mike Wendland keeping track of tech
- GigaOm | ValleyWag - tracking Silicon Valley
- Sivacracy - digital & copyright issues group blog
- The Loom - Carl Zimmer on "life, past and future"
- Keeping up with search engines - list of search blogs, including official Google, MSN & Yahoo blogs
ENTERTAINMENT BLOGS
- Deadline Hollywood Daily - Nikke Finke
- The Hollywood Reporter: Reel Pop (online video) | Risky Biz | Past Deadline
- Cinematical - all about movies
- The Digital Music Blog - all about digital music
TRAVEL BLOGS
- Travelers' Tales: TravelPod.com | TravelBlogs.com | TravelBlog.org
- RealTravel.com | Gridskipper | WorldHum.com
- Frommers.com: Favorite Travel Blogs
- Yahoo Podcasts travel: 19,900 podcasts
- Bloggers In Amsterdam: An example of new kinds of media outreach
SOME BLOGS & BLOGGISH SITES I READ
- Drudge Report - the original blogger?
- GlobalVoicesOnline - Harvard project to find best of international blogs
- ALDaily - Arts & Letters Daily, now at Chronicle of Higher Education
- Bada-Bing blog - The Sopranos
- SliceNY - "America's favorite pizza blog"
- Gothamist - also Boston | Chicago | London | LA | San Francisco | Seattle | Toronto | Washington DC and more
- Armchair Generalist - Pentagon employee's blog
- Diary of a Flight Attendant - er, fired flight attendant
- SepiaMutiny | Ultrabrown - group blogs by second-generation South Asian Americans (see longer list)
- The Dullest Blog in the World
BLOGS OF FOLKS WHO ATTENDED THIS WORKSHOP OR OTHERWISE TOOK SREE ADVICE
- CultureGrrl - Lee Rosenbaum's "cultural commentary with attitude"
- Filmiholic - Maria Giovanna tracks all the Bollywood movies she watches in a summer
- Living With Microbes - Jessica Snyder Sachs preps for her book
- Pundit Mom - Joanne Bamberger, political mom, on politics, culture, law
- SCD Journal - a blog about the "specific carbohydrate diet" and intestinal diseases
- Amitava Kumar - the well-known academic and writer has a blog as eclectic as himself
- LiveMoney - from SmartMoney.com
- Wine on Tuesdays - Debra & Keith Gordon blog about "wonderful wines at affordable prices"
- Go Mom Go - Sheila Eldred on fit parenting
- Birds, Bats & Beyond - Jim Wright, nature reporter and blogger
- Parenting Solved - Bryan Vartabedian, M.D. on parenting issues
- Maryland Med - David Kohn, Baltimore Sun health and science reporter
- Writing Military Mom - Rosemary O'Brien on being a military spouse, a mom and a writer
- The Equalizer - Frances Whittelsley's consumer blog
- Living Smart - Patricia Gras blogs about current affairs, music, travel and Housto
- The Lazy Milliner - Mary Beth Klatt blogs on clothes and more
- Roopa Recipes - Roopa Unnikrishnan on cooking and kids
Your blog here! sree[at]sree.net!
BLOGS I RUN
- New To Sree - useful and/or fun sites I find during my web travels
- Blogging For Journalists - sites about journalists and whether they should blog
- Daily Plan-It - My Dean of Students blog at Columbia's J-school
- SAJAforum - daily South Asian stuff
PHOTOBLOGGING, VIDEOBLOGGING
- Photoblogging: Fotolog | Flickr
- Videologging: Videoblogging basics
Videoblogger map - find vlogs around the world
- Podcasting basics: About.com | Wikipedia
- Yahoo Podcasts
- iTunes.com/podcasts
KEEPING UP WITH BLOGS / BLOG AGGREGATORS / RSS / XML
- Bloglines
- Google Reader - what I use every day
- Pubsub
- SharpReader
- MyYahoo
- RSS 101 for Journalists - by Jon Dube
- Excellent RSS explanation by Sitara Nieves, Columbia journalism student
WEB 2.0 / AJAX
- Go2Web20.net: complete directory of Web 2.0 software
- Are You Blogging This? Funny video about Web 2.0
- OurMedia.org - free storage and bandwidth for photos, video and text. "Forever."
FREE BLOGGING SOFTWARE
- Blogger, new with categories
- LiveJournal
- MSN Spaces
- Blogster
- Blogsome - with categories (sample blog I run: Dean of Students)
PAID BLOGGING SOFTWARE
- TypePad (sample blog I run: SAJAforum)
- MovableType - also a free personal edition
HOW-TOs - build your own blogs, raise traffic, etc.
BASICS/GETTING STARTED
- Zoundry: Introduction to blogging
- Microsoft: 7 tips for getting started with business blogs
- SimonWorld: Everything you wanted to know about blogging but were afraid to ask
- Dave Pollard's tips FOR bloggers - a growing collection of tips
BUILDING TRAFFIC
- Tips from Blogger about promoting your blog (several unique to Blogger, but others are generic)
- Blog Herald tips on building blog traffic (tips for newbies and others)
- Paul Stamatiou's how to boost your blog traffic
- Ezine Articles' 16 ways to drive traffice to your blog
- WebProNews: How to build traffic to your blog
MAKING MONEY
- BW on how top bloggers make money
- John Chow's list of the biggest Google Ads money makers
- WashPost: How to make money off your blog
- Google AdSense to run ads easily on your blog
- WiredNews: How to almost live on blogging
- Microsoft's 5 tips on how to make money off your blog
- Blogs to Riches: The Have and Have-nots of the Blogging Boom - NY Mag, Feb. 2006 cover story
- How the Top Bloggers Make Money (slideshow) | story - BusinessWeek, July 2006
- Adding a tip jar to your blog: general tips | TypePad
- Poynter:
What Journalists Can Learn from Bloggers
By Steve Outing - SPJ Quill:
Blogging and how it has affected the media
By Peter Beeson - PC
Mag: Understanding & Reading a Blog
By John Dvorak - Who's
There, Seth Goldin's Incomplete Guide to Blogs and the New Web
A useful, free, ebook (PDF) that's a good introduction to blogs and blogging. It focuses on what Goldin, an author with several blogs,
calls "viral" blogs - blogs about ideas of all kinds and how anyone can have his or her ideas read widely. - The Blog-only Media Diet
A 2004 experiment, covered by Steve Outing - Blogs
the Famous Media Reads
Lists of blogs read by traditional journalists, compiled by Howard Mortman - Why I
Blog
Poynter writing coach Chip Scanlan on his new blog, "The Mechanic & The Muse" - Guide
to Searching Blogs
By Jon Dube - The
Changing Media Landscape 2005
A Columbia panel - Epic
2014 / Googlezon
A look at the media in the year 2014. Scary stuff - Changing
Media Landscape / Issues in Online News
List of links, articles from Sree's Columbia's 10-week course - Notes
from this "Figuring Out Blogs" workshop: Sept. 27, 2006 at MediaBistro
- Kerry
choice of Edwards as VP was not broken by traditional media
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