Tag Archives: Journalism

Writing ledes, writing for feeds…

Posted on August 27, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

Too many ledes in tech publications and blogs suck. I’ve been doing more editing and more content curation lately. The upshot of that is noticing a lot of really boring, fluffy, slow-to-the-point ledes that utterly fail at drawing the reader … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging 101, Front Page, PR and marketing, Rant | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments

Blogging 101: Conducting interviews for media

Posted on March 10, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

A good friend of mine from the FLOSS community is going to be doing some interviews for his blog at an upcoming conference, and asked for a few tips on interviewing. Interviewing is not a science, but an art: And … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging 101, Front Page, Journalism, Writing | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

A New Role in Journalism?

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Joe Brockmeier

TechDirt points to a discussion about today’s newsroom and the idea a new role in a newsroom: Curators. That is, someone who would help readers by sorting, organizing, verifying, and editing information that’s already on the Web or in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Front Page, Journalism | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Long day in London

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

In London (well, staying in Bracknell & taking the train to London) this week, spent most of Tuesday doing in-person press interviews about openSUSE, the 11.2 launch (a bit belatedly) and talking about open source in general face to face … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Linux, openSUSE | Tagged , | Leave a comment

/usr/bin/links –date=’Monday, November 23′

Posted on November 23, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

A few choice bits from around the Web about journalism, marketing, technology, and other fun stuff. State of Mozilla and 2008 Financial Statements — Mozilla still healthy, despite the crappy economy. Wonder if there’s any way for other FOSS non-profit … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Linkage, PR and marketing, Rant | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Dan Gillmor on “new rules of news”

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Joe Brockmeier

Even though I’m not working as a journalist these days, I still keep one eye on the profession. It’s clear to me that journalism has a lot of evolving to do to keep up with technology and the way that … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism | Tagged , , | Leave a comment