Welcome to the Site

Clifford, August 03, 2008 +0

"This is my personal website where I intend to write, occasionally, about political journalism. It may not be updated as often as it should be, as I also have a blog on The Birmingham Post site."

Your blog is not often updated either.

Jonathan Walker, August 03, 2008 +0

I know. It needs to be updated more often.

In fairness, I do write a huge amount in various ways for the Post and Mail, but you're right about the blog.

Clifford, August 03, 2008 +0

I'm not unsympathetic but if you don't blog regularly you will lose readers. Perhaps with a personal and a work blog you are spreading yourself a bit thin?

Jonathan Walker, August 03, 2008 +0

True. What I hope to do is blog more regularly on the Post site - this site is not designed to be one of those things that is updated every day and attracts huge numbers of readers, not that I would mind that. It's more about letting me establish some kind of online presence of my own where I can post about stuff I wouldn't put on the Post site (such as why I don't think the Internet is going to kill off *journalism* whatever it does to newspapers). I'm actually on holiday at the moment, hence the activity here.

In other words, the Birmingham Post blog is the "main" blog. You make a very good point.

I'm thinking of playing around with video blogging and seeing if I can get that on the Post site btw. Just put it on YouTube and embed it into the Post blog . . . of course I'd need to talk to the editor about this But I dunno what you think?

Clifford, August 04, 2008 +0

I never watch them. Actually I am a lecturer and get asked the same question, My answer is that it takes a lot of work and a certain amount of skill (or training), which I don't have. Otherwise it is badly shot, out of focus, 'ums and aahs', badly scripted, too long etc. Easy to be seduced by the technological possibilities at the expense of the message.