Can niche bloggers take the place of laid-off beat reporters?
For my latest PBS article I tracked down several independent bloggers who have become powerful voices in their local communities, in some cases being able to far out-perform traditional news outlets...
View ArticleBlogging’s effects on dieting
I recently wrote a feature piece for PBS exploring how dieters were able to utilize blogging — and the community support built around it — to maintain weight loss. I found it incredibly fascinating...
View ArticleMy latest PBS article: How Crowdsourcing Could Revolutionize Patent-Busting
When the term “crowdsourcing” is used it’s often referring to how media companies can utilize it for journalistic purposes, but other industries have been using it for years — most notably software...
View ArticlePromotional satellites
If the New Yorker were a planet, blogs like Emdashes and the New Yorkerest would be satellites orbiting around it, meticulously analyzing its landscape with fine-tooth photographic lenses. They are fan...
View ArticleAre there entrepreneurial opportunities for laid-off sports journalists?
This week over at PBS’ MediaShift, I profiled a laid-off soccer journalist in the UK who decided to take the brand his paper had spent so much energy building up and used it to launch his own sports...
View ArticleWhy your company, political group or media organization should hire me
Let me give you an example of what I can do. Back in May a film company approached me because they were trying to push out a YouTube video that was highlighting what they perceived as unfair labor...
View ArticleHouston Chronicle interview with me on the state of personal blogging
I’m quoted briefly in this piece: When blogs go blank Back in 2004, the blogger known as “Mister Bachelor†was swinging at the top of his middle-aged game  collecting women and...
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