2005 – Page 25 – Media Culpa

New kids on the writer’s block

Absence makes the heart grow fonder they say, but taking four weeks off from my blog has just made my mind go blank. I have just returned from a month of non-blogging only to find myself with a severe case of writer’s block. Nothing seems important enough to make it into the first post after summer vacation. All the stuff that has been going on in the blogosphere since I last posted here has already been covered by somebody else. So I’ll just take this advice from 43 Folders and have the first new post out of the way: “Write crap – Accept that your first draft will suck, and just go with it. Finish something.”

Update: Jennifer Rice points to a booklet about ‘blog depression’. Maybe that’s what it is.

Light blogging ahead

From this view…

…to this. Ahh, sweet vacation time.

A corporate blog is good for your business

Butler Sheetmetal estimates an increase in turnover by 35-40% since the inception of its corporate blog (in May 2004?). Sounds like a success to me.

Via A PR Guru’s Musings.

FT about corporate blogging

Financial Times: “The rise of the corporate blogger GUIDE TO BLOGGING”

“The whole corporate blogging issue is beginning to bubble up,” says Peter Hirshberg, vice-president of Technorati, a blogging search engine site. “It gives people in a company the opportunity to be people interacting with other people. Corporations are just big faceless entities right now.”

Should media sponsor journalist blogs?

Wall Street Journal: Should Newspapers Sponsor Blogs Written by Reporters?

“Now, more newspapers are warming to the idea of offering official reporter-written blogs. The Boston Globe is considering official blogs following the Mercury News’s model. At the Dallas Morning News, more than 20 sports reporters contribute to a blog on the paper’s Web site. Their posts must be screened by editors, but a spokesman said that requirement might be dropped.”

Link via Tim Porter. [Edit: WSJ, not NY Times – thanks Scott.]

RSS 4 DI

Dagens Industri, the leading business daily in Sweden, now comes with an RSS feed for headline news. From what I can tell the feed was launched on July 11 (? I can only find the first 100 posts). This is interesting also in another perspective. As I wrote in January, Dagens Industri normally moves articles online after about a week, so any blogger that tries to link to an old DI article will be greeted by this error message:

Di.se

By introducing an RSS feed maybe DI is moving towards better permanence on the web.

Feed: http://ditrader.di.se/News/rss.aspx