People ask me how I balance writing for so many blogs with everything else I do. I tell them that I write fast and consume too many energy drinks. In reality, it’s all about organizing, prioritizing, and scheduling my time. Herein are my suggestions regarding how to get it all done.
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I entered the world of “new” journalism approximately seven years ago by writing reviews and editorials. This, of course, was before blogging became such a hit. Since then, I have managed to turn my ramblings into a paying hobby which has helped me pay my college tuition and afford to go out on the town, buying dinner and drinks for those close to me.
Blogger Reps V.P. of Community Development and resident Rockstar, Kyra Reed has released her informative e-book this month entitled, Blog 101: A Beginners Guide to Blogging. Blog 101 provides step-by-step instructions on setting up and populating a blog, integrating into the blogosphere and building the vital online community necessary for a blog to be a success!
As a special offer to bloggers in the Blogger Reps Network, Kyra is giving away free copies (a $19.99 value) to members who wish to review the book for their site. To sign up for the Blogger Reps Network, please visit our website. To learn more about Blog 101, please contact Kyra directly for more info.
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Our next issue will feature stories about monetizing your blog. Tell us about your experiences with ads, ad networks, revenue sharing, and sponsorships. Do you blog full-time for a living? How’s that working out for you?
If you would like to share your story with our readers, please submit your piece to B.R. Newsletter Editor-in-Chief, Josh Lasser no later than March 28, 2008 to be considered for the second issue. Articles should be between 200-300 words. You will be compensated for your efforts to the tune of $40. (FYI, we’ll also consider articles we don’t include in the first edition for publication on our blog and in future newsletters.)
In our next issue we will be launching a new section for job openings and blog-related collaborative projects. If you have a listing you would like us to publish, please send them to Josh by March 10th.
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Welcome to the new and improved Blogger Reps Update! And, what, pray-tell is on the top of the Update? Why the launch of our very own newsletter of course!!
Now, we at Blogger Reps are all about you, so where do you come in with the newsletter? Well, you can of course shoot us an e-mail and ask to receive the newsletter, it’s free of charge (how cool are we?), but you can also write for the newsletter. That’s right, you can pen (or type if you prefer) a piece or two (or more) for us. Even better than that though, we’re going to pay you to do it!
Here’s the deal, the newsletter covers an array of topics of importance to you, the blogger. It’ll discuss monetizing your blog, publicizing your blog, blogging as a lifestyle, and a couple of other truly swell things. And, as may have been mentioned above, a lot of the pieces are going to be written by you.
The first issue of the Newsletter is going to focus mainly on the lifestyle aspect of blogging - we want to know about how and why you started blogging. So, please, take some time, write up a 200 - 300 word piece on what caused you to start blogging, how you’re doing with your blog, and what you’ve learned from it. Then, e-mail it to our Newsletter Editor, Josh Lasser, by the 24th of January and if your piece is chosen we’re going to give you $40.
Awesome right? You know you’re in, shoot Josh an e-mail and show him what you got.
On the eve of the biggest release since Lewinsky, nerds of all stripes seem to be sitting pretty. They’ve got a nice little web trend going (that whole 2.0 thing), Doctor Who and Battlestar Galactica are back with a vengeance and–hang on, was that the sound of 6 million thumbs cracking?–Halo 3 comes out tonight.
That’s right, almost exactly five years after Halo: Combat Evolved was released to go along with the X-Box, the third and final game in the series by Bungie hits shelves at 12:01 Tuesday morning.
Much of the series’ massive popularity has to do with its online play, which is the kind of technology making a whole new generation of computer science majors rich, in theory. But while social interaction has crept into more and more technologies and online fora, some nerds stick to the good old-fashioned handing-down-of-smart-ideas-from-atop-an-ivory-tower method.
Take, for example, the professional queer studies majors over at the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation who conducted this study.
Apparently, only about 1.1 percent of characters on scripted network shows are gay this season. That’s down from 1.5 percent in 2005. But cable seems to be picking up the slack, with 40 series regulars being attracted to their own gender–a 60 percent increase from last season.
So when will the nerds at GLAAD and the nerds at Bungie (and Ubisoft and Rockstar and EA, etc.) get together and start including each other. It’s probably safe to say there are few, if any gay characters in video games now, but it’d be nice to see GLAAD prove that.
Oooh, looks like Stephen Colbert has a roll on the Simpsons’ millionth season premier Sunday. We love that. The comic genius seething through that studio during production must have been nauseating. Also Lionel Richie is on there as himself.
Whatever else Fox has going that you might find interesting, you have to love that they’re putting all their season premiers on iTunes for free. That will make the “what to watch, what to record” choice a little easier Sunday, but not much.
I doubt Ken Burns will make a documentary about how rad the Simpsons is (are?), But he sure did make one about that big war that happened a while ago in black and white, and that seems to be the nutritional main course on a lot of plates this season.
Burns has been talking, one or two paragraphs at a time, apparently, with Time. He said most of the doc’s themes that evoke that other war that’s on news channels these days are pretty much universal and not a direct allusion. Okay, whatever.
Everybody says The War is totally great, but it seems like the televised equivalent of vegetables to us. MeeVee said it’s good for you, and Tim Goodman thinks you most definitely should “slog” through it. Enticing. But we will definitely be watching because deep down, we’re suckers for grainy footage of big explosions.
While we really do feel the Simpsons is the best thing ever to happen to images and sound, there’s a good chance, given the free download of that show, that we’ll be vicariously on a transport Sunday night, heading across the Atlantic to an epic, seven-part struggle.
Our apologies for the break in posts over the past month. We’ve been working overtime on two simultaneous campaigns.
Stay tuned… We have much to report from SES and the CMSummit…
Last week, Wired ran a post about the “long tail” of selling media online - basically, that more than just the top 40,000 song tracks or 3,000 movie titles can and will sell to online buyers, and that without the cost of storage you’d get in an actual store, there’s no reason not to sell beyond the highest profit curve in any media market. How to deal with the licensing of media in a long tail system, however, is not as clear cut.
Should all sites be charged the same amount to license copyrighted content, in spite of the fact that some content producers only get a few thousand views while others spread their material to movies and TV? Or should the media producers take matters into their own hands - like the band Harvey Danger has with their last album release - and distribute their content under a creative commons license, which would let fans exercise their creativity on songs and video without violating copyright?
So far, the legal rules associated with licensing long tail media remain in flux, with lawsuits like Google and Veoh’s ultimately likely to influence the outcome. There ought to be a compromise available between rigid license agreements and the free-for-all that online media sharing can become; what that compromise might be, unfortunately, is still a mystery.
(Source: Online Video Watch)
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