Blogging: The New Career Path
Once upon a time, an aspiring writer — especially one who dreamed of scaling the heights of Mount Commentariat — would start his career as a print journalist at a no-name newspaper, telling the compelling stories of the day, like how Fireman Jones rescued not one but two cats from a tree on Wednesday. In [...]
Electronic Mail
The allure of email — you can send a message to anyone, at any time, and you don’t need to worry about what you write because, hey, it’s just email, right? The biggest challenge with email is that there is a significant generational gap among email users. For people who came of age in an [...]
Know Your Motivation
So you think you want to start a business. Or, you have a business or a non-profit organization that you wish to grow or expand. Great. You have a ghost of an idea. But do you have the fire in the belly? Do you have the drive to succeed? And what prompts you to do [...]
… And the Press Goes Silent
So far, 2009 has not been kind to the newspaper industry. High-profile publications including the Seattle Post-Intelligencer are folding after a century or more of continuous operation. Layoffs are proceeding apace, and subscriber rates are plummeting. There have been plenty of post-mortems about this, ranging from the spread of the New Media to cutbacks in [...]