Blogging is killing the article
I though blogs where awesome in the beginning of the blogosphere explosion. They appeared to be a fast, personal, and accessible way of conveying information. And anyone could do it! Unfortunately this were the trough of blogging! It is too quick and dirty, too personal, and—well, I have nothing against it being accessible, really.
My point being, blogging have been stealing marketshare from the decent and carefully crafted article. This is also why I am giving up on blogging. It killed the fun of researching a topic and really working on a text. I am going to become a freelance journalist instead!
Power to the people is all well and good. To a certain degree. The sloppy work that is being put into most blog entries is really bad. I want to give the power back to magazine editors, and bring back higher standards. Over the holidays, I have written a couple of articles that I have worked very hard on. I hope to sell them to a high‐end website or magazine.
This website will become sort of a scrapbook/journal for everything else. Such as stupid little how‐tos and other things. I will stop updating it with generic news and other things. I will also stop updating it with transcripts of email conversations and other things kept archived elsewhere.
I will put together a website—or probably just an Atom feed—with links and snippets from articles I publish elsewhere. I will setup a website for it soon.
Copyright © 2007 Daniel Aleksandersen 2007-12-28 at 12:12
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