Comments on: Life after dead (trees & newspapers)

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Hooray for Hollywood and Greg Hernandez « Virtualjournalist — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:44:23 +0000

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By: Petra Engelke

Petra Engelke — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:43:58 +0000

Great examples! Still, there is the discussion about how to earn money with blogging (one future day). From my (German) perspective, journalists shouldn’t focus too much on earning money by their blog itself; it’s great if this works, of course, but it narrows the perspective. I think it might be wiser to also think of the blog as a tool to make themselves known as experts in their respective niche.

By becoming visible as an expert, a journalist might be booked for a lecture, a workshop or as a live interview host. Or – forgive me this old school thought – he or she might get an assignment by newspapers or magazines that would like him or her to elaborate on a thought first uttered in the blog.

By: Becky Harshbarger

Becky Harshbarger — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 05:55:53 +0000

Just wanted to say that everything I learned in our entrepeneurial class made me excited about the future of journalism, and can’t wait to bring that enthusiasm with me to Kampala.

By: AnnB

AnnB — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:33:49 +0000

This guy is a dog uberblogger and this Crufts photo essay is meaner than anything you’ll find in the MSM.

http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2009/03/crufts-people-their-dogs.html

He’s covered the dog inbreeding story like a true terrier.

By: invitedmedia

invitedmedia — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:32:24 +0000

i hear this little bitch has one mean blog (click my id)

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:54:32 +0000

You’ll always have dog bloggers

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:52:58 +0000

And since you live downstairs…

I think we’ve got the basis for a pretentious tv show here.

By: AnnB

AnnB — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:52:17 +0000

My niche is Scotties and wiener dogs. The Scottish Terrier and Dog News is a prototype as is the Daily Dachshund

Seriously, dog journalism and information (and horse too, I’m told) is terrible. It’s dominated by the Kennel clubs and assorted other nutters. Or by people who just want to catch in on the pet phenomenom and don’t even have dogs like the owner of Dogster.

It’s seriously long tail and low margin, but then so was Amazon when it was only about books.

I do wonder, though, where all the dog stories that I aggregate from newspapers will come from in the future.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 20:34:03 +0000

Heh. Wish I had the guest house! We live in a former duplex, and we just call it the far less glamorous name of “downstairs.”

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Life after dead : Hosting Hit — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:37:45 +0000

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By: Julia

Julia — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:34:12 +0000

Kudos to my former colleague! I left the LA Daily News about a month ago to launch my own savvy-spending blog, http://www.bargainbabe.com. Making money off a blog is very tough, but I feel more optimistic about it than staying in print.

By: Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:43:21 +0000

Another nice example is Adam Corolla having his radio show pulled by CBS and doing podcasts with the same co-hosts and guests two weeks later from his own website. The best part is that his contract doesn’t expire until the end of the year so he’s getting paid to not do one show while he’s doing it himself. Without the censors and the starting at 5am it’s actually good for a change.

http://carollaradio.com/podcasts/

By: Richard Beene

Richard Beene — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:26:01 +0000

And it could not have happened to a nicer and more talented guy … good for Greg and Danny and here’s to his success…

By: Alan Kellogg

Alan Kellogg — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:34:05 +0000

For my part I’d recommend Total Choice Hosting for site and domain. They’ve done all right by me. In the long run the prospective blogger should go with people he feels comfortable with, and a blogging platform he feels comfortable with. And to every one thinking of starting his own blog, good luck.