Blogging
Resources for Journalists
Tools
For setting up blogs
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WordPress.com
For beginners who want to set up a free, easy blog hosted at Wordpress
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WordPress.org
For more advanced users who pay for web hosting services and want
to customize their blog.
Download and install the software here.
For searching blogs
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Technorati
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Google Blog Search
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Ten most popular journalism blogs in America?
For monitoring blogs
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Google Reader
How To Guides and Tutorials
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Blogs in Plain English
A short, helpful video that explains blogs for beginners
»Tips
from WordPress about using free WordPress.com blogs
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FAQ from WordPress
Frequently asked questions and answers about setting up WordPress
blogs
Answers often include helpful screencasts
»Tips
for getting started blogging, stress free
From Mindy McAdams, the author of the blog Teaching Online Journalism
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Guide from WordPress about getting started with advanced WordPress.org
blogs
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Google Reader's Help Centre
A guide to using Google Reader to subscribe to and read blogs
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RSS in Plain English
A short, helpful video for beginners that explains how to use
RSS feeds to subscribe to blogs
Resources for bloggers
To blog or not to blog: A debate between Globe
and Mail columnists
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I'm not blogging this, mark my words
Christie Blatchford makes the case against asking reporters to
blog, too
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Blatchford pines for the monologue
Matthew Ingram makes the case for blogging reporters
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A young reporter's own story about the value of his blog to his
reporting
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Advice for young journalists about how to use a blog to help launch
your career
From Paul Bradshaw a British journalism prof and author of the Online
Journalism Blog
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How to do blogging right
Great advice from Mindy McAdams, the author of the Teaching Online
Journalism blog
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A blogger's code of ethics
Good advice from Cyberjournalist.net about being honest, accountable,
fair and minimizing harm
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Weblog ethics
More good advice about blogging responsibly from Rebecca Blood,
the author of The Weblog Handbook
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Blogging between the lines
An article from the American Journalism Review in January, 2007
about the lessons learned by newspapers about blogging
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The origins of the blogosphere
An extended history of blogs |
