Top 5 Author Blogs

Everyone knows about author bloggers like Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin. But outside of the Technorati Top 100, there are a lot of authors that have used blogs to create fantastic communities of users. Here are my five favorite, slightly lower profile author blogs:

(5) Malcolm Gladwell

Gladwell,...

Top 10 WordPress Plugins

Here is my personal list of the best/most useful WordPress plugins I’ve come across during my two plus years using the platform.

(10) Google Site Map Generator

This plugin automatically creates a Google-friendly sitemap, making it easier for Google to find your content. SEO folks say this stuff helps....

The Plight of Newspaper Bloggers

I had an interesting conversation this weekend with a journalist for the Opelika-Auburn News. A friend of my roommate, this journalist (who shall remain nameless to protect the innocent) is a sportswriter who covers Auburn University sports and maintains a blog on the newspaper's website. We got to talking one night and I decided to take the opportunity to ask him a couple of questions about his thoughts on newspaper blogs and websites....

News Blog Idea: Dissenting Voices

Since writing the 16 Ways The News Media Can Use Blogs post, I've thought of a seventeenth way.

News organizations, particularly newspapers, can publish dissenting voices of editorials on their websites. Not everyone on an editorial board — like judges (including the most famous at the Supreme Court) —...

Covering Politics in CyberSpace

I spent the day at a conference on “Covering Politics in Cyberspace” put on by USC’s Annenberg School for Communication. Basically, the idea of the conference was to get a group of around twenty five journalists together to discuss how they will be covering the 2008 election cycle. The concept for first day (today) was to bring in experts on online politics and political bloggers to talk to reporters about what they should be looking for....