Why I quit my job as a national newspaper editor to be a bloggerWhy would any self-respecting journo leave their job as an editor at one of the US’s largest national newspapers, the LA Times to work for media gossip site Gawker? To be part of the nation’s “cultural conversation”.
Blogging
A girl always remembers her first time: a tribute to GeoCities
Yahoo has finally pulled the plug on GeoCities. Though most will say “good riddance” to the home of eye-searing fluro text, badly animated GIFs and never-ending Midi tunes, Ruth Brown looks back fondly on the site that popped her HTML cherry.
Political snippets: Bloggers beware — here comes the FTC
America’s Federal Trade Commission is cracking down on bloggers taking cash for comment, and how the global recession may have reduced carbon emissions.
Can bloggers pull a sickie?
An amusing Gawker post recently exposed the large number of sick days taken by Deadline Hollywood Daily’s Nikki Finke. But as blogging become a “real” job, it raises a genuine puzzler for the media industry: can you pull a sickie for a job you already do on the couch in your PJs?
Words from a Bolt hole: blogging in the time of terror
Last week’s terror arrests in Melbourne set blogger Andrew Bolt up with at least a week’s worth of material. Tobias Zieglar imagines the scene..
News Ltd and the cold shoulder of redundancy
The journalists’ union is taking a hard look at News Limited’s redundancies, writes Christopher Warren.
‘Printed blog’ fails to take media world by storm
Startup newspaper The Printed Blog — a paper made entirely of aggregated blog posts — is folding after 16 issues. “Printed online media is dead” says Business Insider. Yeah? Tell that to all the Crikey subscribers who print out their 40-page email Every. Single. Day.
Perez Hilton to launch a “kinder” new site
Bitchy gossip bloggeratti Perez Hilton is planning to launch a new website with a kinder, gentler tone to appeal more to advertisers.
Blogging Evangelist on the future of publishing
Six Apart’s chief Blogging Evangelist (yes, that’s his real title) Anil Dash discusses the company’s Journalism Bailout Program.
Gaza bloggers report from the ground
On the ground in Gaza, a handful of bloggers have continued to transmit compelling stories, writes Antony Loewenstein.
The Crikey bias-o-meter IV: the blogosphere
Before blog commentary makes it into the public realm, it doesn’t have to fight its way through an editorial bureaucracy, nor does it have to live up to a masthead. And that’s how we came up with the criteria for inclusion in the Crikey Blogosphere Bias-o-metre — it’s all about the wonks.
