http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/use-the-force-luke-blogging-should-take-more-time-not-less/ Notes from the classroom and observations about professional practices for sharing the news on digital platforms. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:54:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/use-the-force-luke-blogging-should-take-more-time-not-less/comment-page-1/#comment-3359 contentious.com - links for 2007-09-08 Sat, 08 Sep 2007 12:28:39 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/use-the-force-luke-blogging-should-take-more-time-not-less/#comment-3359 [...] Teaching Online Journalism » Use the Force, Luke: Blogging should take more time, not less “He is responding to a post at Poynter by Amy Gahran, in which she addresses the common lament that keeping a blog eats up too much time. (Yeah, time you were going to spend doing what instead?)” (tags: blogging productivity conversation mycoverage AmyGahran) [...] [...] Teaching Online Journalism » Use the Force, Luke: Blogging should take more time, not less “He is responding to a post at Poynter by Amy Gahran, in which she addresses the common lament that keeping a blog eats up too much time. (Yeah, time you were going to spend doing what instead?)” (tags: blogging productivity conversation mycoverage AmyGahran) [...]

]]> http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/use-the-force-luke-blogging-should-take-more-time-not-less/comment-page-1/#comment-3329 John Robinson Fri, 07 Sep 2007 16:27:22 +0000 http://mindymcadams.com/tojou/2007/use-the-force-luke-blogging-should-take-more-time-not-less/#comment-3329 Thanks, Mindy, but I'm not all that smart -- I still believe in newsprint, for god's sake! I have just drunk the digital Kool-Aid...And I've had to answer that same question Amy posed half a million times. After a while, I finally realized the question was based on a misunderstanding of the value of not only blogs but of what was important for journalists to work on. Thanks, Mindy, but I’m not all that smart — I still believe in newsprint, for god’s sake! I have just drunk the digital Kool-Aid…And I’ve had to answer that same question Amy posed half a million times. After a while, I finally realized the question was based on a misunderstanding of the value of not only blogs but of what was important for journalists to work on.

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