Monthly Archives: December 2009

Introduction to Blogging

By Michael Becker | Published: December 9, 2009
What is a blog? “Blog” is short for “Web log.” They originated back in the mid-1990s as a way for people who surfed the Web to share links to interesting sites. Brief History Over time, those logs of Web activity began to take on characteristics of online diaries, and people began writing longer posts on [...]
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Don’t waste space

By Michael Becker | Published: December 6, 2009
Jennifer Peebles at the Net Worked blog reminds us that we should still be a little choosy about what we put online. It’s not an information dump. Very few topics out there are truly worth an old-fashioned notebook dump, even when you’re writing for the Web. As journalists, it’s still our job to separate the [...]
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Top news stories, 11/16-11/29

By Michael Becker | Published: December 4, 2009
Jury finds Bozeman bar-beating suspect guilty of lesser charge ‘Cat-Griz craziness begins with Undie Run, Pep Rally One man dead, two taken to hospital in Interstate crash Sunday Early morning apartment fire in Bozeman kills one Locals witness giant fireball passing over western U.S. early Wednesday morning Gallatin Gateway strip club owners try to duck [...]
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Blox Update

By Michael Becker | Published: December 2, 2009
I thought I’d share this line from an e-mail from corporate regarding our new Blox site. Many of our Blox sites are falling behind their original target launch dates. If you’re wondering when we’re going to get the new site, the answer, at least for now, is unknown. We had hoped to launch in January. [...]
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Saving ourselves from tired holiday metaphors

By Michael Becker | Published: December 1, 2009
The holidays are so pregnant with symbolism, history and metaphors that it’s sometimes hard to avoid writing cliches into your stories. That’s why former Baltimore Sun copyeditor John McIntyre provides us with this lovely list of things we should avoid putting into print around the holidays. As McIntyre puts it: Some readers (and, sadly, some [...]
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