Category Archives: Blogging

Weather blogger

By Michael Becker | Published: December 11, 2009
KBZK’s chief meteorologist Mike Heard has started a blog, where he writes about — surprise — the weather. I point this out for a few reasons. First of all, Heard is no spring chicken. Blogging and social media weren’t things he learned about in college. He’s found the time, somehow, in his day to learn [...]
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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 them. Over [...]
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The utility of blogging

By Michael Becker | Published: October 13, 2009
Words on the importance of blogging to BBC business editor Robert Preston: For me, the blog is at the core of everything I do, it is the bedrock of my output. The discipline of doing it shapes my thoughts. It disseminates to a wider world the stories and themes that I think matter. But it also [...]
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