Do you blog?

[Matt Stephens]

Just wondering, especially from some of the more seasoned writers on here, whether or not you keep up with a personal blog. Not a "here are my feelings" or blog for work, but just regularly post to one you've created on your own.

I remember J-School teachers saying to make sure you have one, but then pros would sometime advise the opposite in case a potential employer didn't like something you said.

Also wondering because I wouldn't mind just looking at a few every now and then.

 

[Stitch]

Nope. Locked down my personal Twitter and Facebook accounts because higher-ups snoop at my company.

 

[Igor in CT]

I've had one for some time - writing mostly about hockey - but there are times where I just don't want to deal with it.

It's been good because it forced me to learn HTML and the tech side, but bad because I don't keep up with it like I should.

 

[SF_Express]

The (linked below) Sports Writing and Editing blog has been quiet for some time.

Between freelancing and other things, I just don't have the time to give it the attention it deserves. It occurs to me I could just put a random thought there every day, but I just don't think about it.

 

[Moderator1]

Yes

 

[imjustagirl]

I have a Nick Punto blog, but I haven't updated it much (if at all) in the past six months. Once he signs somewhere and begins his Tour of Reckoning, I will fire it back up.

 

[Moderator1]

rumor is the Nats want him. Seriously, So I'll blog about that, too, but likely not in the way you would.

 

[imjustagirl]

OMG PLEASE LET THAT HAPPEN.

My list of preferred teams:
1. Atlanta
2. Cincinnati
3. Any NL team
4. Minnesota
5. Any AL West team
6. Cleveland
7. Any other AL team

 

[Versatile]

A Nick Punto blog? I'm intrigued.

 

[Mark2010]

Used to. Haven't done it in a while. Maybe should start uop again.

 

[Football_Bat]

Never Twittered, never Facebooked, never have, and never will.

Although I may Twitter soon. Seems harmless enough as long as you remember to whom you're tweeting.

 

[TrooperBari]

I blog, though it's not connected to my work and probably not anything I'd want to show a prospective employer. There's more link sharing and opinion spouting than actual journalism.

I'm warming to the idea of Twitter -- it's just a question of Internet access being reliable enough to check it frequently.

 

[sgreenwell]

I blog, though it's not connected to my work and probably not anything I'd want to show a prospective employer. There's more link sharing and opinion spouting than actual journalism.

I'm warming to the idea of Twitter -- it's just a question of Internet access being reliable enough to check it frequently.

I also keep a personal blog, although I haven't really updated frequently because I took a new job a couple months ago. I specifically tried to steer away from journalism and tried to use it as an avenue to explore more creative writing, and things like movie and TV reviewing, and treatises on 1990s pop culture. It was not really unique from anything else on the web, except that I wrote it, and it was nice to have a creative outlet that didn't rely on anything I had to do for work.

 

[TrooperBari]

I blog, though it's not connected to my work and probably not anything I'd want to show a prospective employer. There's more link sharing and opinion spouting than actual journalism.

I'm warming to the idea of Twitter -- it's just a question of Internet access being reliable enough to check it frequently.

I also keep a personal blog, although I haven't really updated frequently because I took a new job a couple months ago. I specifically tried to steer away from journalism and tried to use it as an avenue to explore more creative writing, and things like movie and TV reviewing, and treatises on 1990s pop culture. It was not really unique from anything else on the web, except that I wrote it, and it was nice to have a creative outlet that didn't rely on anything I had to do for work.

That's pretty much why I started it -- a creative outlet now that I'm more desk-based. My biggest challenge, other than remembering to update it, was trying not to kvetch too much about work.

Success has been mixed, but in my defense, I'd have had a heart attack if I hadn't been able to talk about what happened at my last shop.

 

[RickStain]

I have a personal blog related to one of my hobbies, but it's more of a journal than designed for public consumption.

 

[Precious Roy]

We have a blog, it's a work related blog that isn't attached to the paper's site. We Twitter and Facebook too. We don't get paid any extra, but it gets out stuff we want to talk about without taking up newspaper space we wouldn't be given otherwise. I like doing it, it's pretty fun and you get to do some of the more interesting technical stuff. It really helps connect with out niche audiences that don't get a bunch of stuff in the paper or on the website.

 

[Matt Stephens]

I created a basic sports blog for our newspaper all by myself (yes, I'm a big boy) three years ago that became an instant hit with nice, simple updates and commentary. We also used CoverItLive for game blogs that got tons of traffic and programmed a simple Flash intro for it. I also got all of my beat reporter's mug shots up in the rotating banner and I just felt like it helped add a personality to between our readership and staff.

Haven't seen anyone really do any updates since I graduated last month, but I'm sure my former assistant editor will get it going for spring.

It would have been nice, however, for our Web Editor to help me with a bit of recoding since there are a few pages with null values that I can't get Drupal to get rid of. Oh well.

CollegianSports.com

 

[Mark2010]

If I do a blog I will do it on a private site, not a site owned/run by an employer, where everything I write would be subject to censorship and such.

 

[ECrawford]

As kind of my own year-in-review kind of exercise, it occurred to me that I blogged as many words as I put into print columns in 2010. I don't know that it helped the quality of either, and I sure don't blog as much as others at my publication, but to answer the question, yeah, I blog a lot.

I do have a personal blog primarily for non-sports stuff, but I don't publicize it a lot, and have really slowed posting on there to a trickle in the last six months. (I think my most active spell on there was when I used it to do a few different type things that I'd wanted to do while I was on a furlough. Heh.)

 

[NightHawk112005]

I blog on the newspaper's site, and I'm glad to do it.