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4 Myths (and More!) Bloggers Believe about "Old" Media

J. Timothy King — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:00:26 +0000

Bob Baker pointed me toward this blog post by Leo Babauta: “8 Valuable Lessons Newspapers Must Learn From Bloggers to Survive”.

I’m actually finding myself disagreeing with some of Leo’s points. For example:

Rediscovering Blogging

J. Timothy King — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:55:16 +0000

I promised something lighthearted and fun for Monday, and I know I’m a little late with this post. But I hope you’ll forgive me, and I’ll try to get future Monday posts up earlier in the day.

Lately, as you may have noticed, I’ve been rediscovering blogging. That is, I’ve been writing more blog posts, more regularly. And not just posting more here on this blog, but rather on various sites in the J. Timothy King Website Network. And not just posting more articles, but also reading more blogs. And not just posting and reading, but posting and reading for the fun of it.

Over the weeks and months and years, I’ve gotten out of touch with the blogs and other sties in my RSS feeds, not even skimming them for interesting posts. But of late, I’ve started to visit certain feeds more regularly, and I’ve developed a process by which I can discover more interesting blogs, to skim them, and to categorize them by priority, depending on how interesting they are to me and how close their authors are to me personally. And it’s actually provided some enjoyment for me. (I just have to remember to let blogging stay fun and not to become work, or else I’ll get stressed out by it, and that will be the end of that.)

So I thought today, I’d post some of the interesting recent posts from some new blogs I’ve discovered. All of these blogs have already made it into my “preferred blogs” category, so I’ve already found some affinity with each of the authors of these blogs.

Enjoy! -TimK

Sued for Reading an RSS Feed?

J. Timothy King — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 19:58:19 +0000

The blogosphere is coming of age. And the story of my recent experience with a well-known blog network illustrates a contentious issue in the blogosphere, contentious because blogging technology is just progressing too fast, even for bloggers. And because the law is moving even more slowly than the bloggers themselves. Before the dust settles, no doubt, many people will have spent many, many thousands of dollars (or maybe millions) in legal fees, sorting it all out.

My story began with an email from said major blog network, an email that was obviously written by a lawyer.