Pressed for Words
Last night I was extremely excited about using Tumblr again. But that excitement didn’t last long at all.
After giving it some thought I decided not to use Tumblr, but instead use a second WordPress blog with a simple theme.
.random[oid] will still be my main web site, but I’ve decided to turn it into an aggregator site. Links and feeds to my Twitter and new, more personal, WordPress blog [which I will talk more about soon]. .random[oid] will kind of act as a massive portfolio, with its dedicated portfolio page, but also with commissioned but unpublished write-ups.
Twitter will not be affected that much, or nothing at all I would assume.
Dr. W on the other hand will be a blog, still with major focus on my journalistic escapades, but also a place for short rants and ramblings. A place that lets me publish anything longer than 140 characters, but not above 200 words.
So… Enjoy, while I get back to studying and shaking my fist psychology notes.
I like aggregation… I like a lot… If your blog is pushing >200 words, what limits are you expecting to put on randomiod? You’ll be hard pressed to put out much volume alone. Choose your sources wisely if you aggregate the aggregators I will not read… Aggregation is at least tertiary source, and each step journalism takes from the primary source is a step in the wrong direction. Get as close to the real thing as you can!
I think the name .random[oid] fit’s this blog perfectly, but I’m afraid it’s a bit too random. So instead I will use it as a Portfolio and a place to post longer columns that have been commissioned, but for some reason never got published due to editorial decisions.
While the new blog will focus more on me and my life as a journo. Which has got more followers than I expected and seems to be slowly growing nicely upwards.
And I always focus on doing my own stuff. Either write a column based on my own experiences or opinions, or writing an article about a recent event I witnessed or became part of for some reason (luckily was there or was asked to look into it by an editor). So yeah, I try to get as close as I possibly can, even if it means I have to step on toes, so I can report the truth.