…never let a columnist have their own blog.
I believe that it takes a very strong following for an individual to carry a blog based on their wit or observations alone. Most successful blogs are topic driven, not personality driven.
Are there exceptions? Probably, but more often that not a columnist writing about random issues will […]
About
This is the Web site of freelance journalist and Web designer Sean Blanda. It's mostly writing and Web stuff.
Categories
Greatest hits
- Blog is the new magazine (and a list of themes)
- The new Temple-News.com: from College Publisher to Wordpress
- How to translate Journalism job postings
- Workflow matters: a case for shovelware
- Post grad plans, UWIRE, and Bill Cosby
- How to use Facebook to leverage your college newspaper
- Georgia on my mind
- Our disgruntled young journalists
- Why most freelance writers have bad Web sites (and what to do about it)
- There is only one niche on the Internet
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