Comments on: Honolulu Advertiser blogs need more content and authority http://billso.com/2008/06/25/honolulu-advertiser-blogs/ Bill Sodeman writes about management, mobile computing and information systems Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: billso http://billso.com/2008/06/25/honolulu-advertiser-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-1325 billso Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:09:48 +0000 http://billso.com/?p=1736#comment-1325 Thanks for the thoughtful comments, Kim! That's some good information regarding your schedule. While I'd love to blog every hour or so and post a video or two each day, I do have to get some real work done. :) Seriously, given <a href="http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=8689256&nav=0bov"the Advertiser's recent layoffs</a rel="nofollow">, I think the writing is on the wall. The Advertiser is profitable, but they're still shedding employees. Most of the non-local news stories are usually straight from the wire. The Advertiser may have no choice but to move its local and breaking news coverage to a blog format, similar to the </a><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/ref/topnews/blog-index.html" rel="nofollow">NY Times blogs</a>. It's a good way to post breaking news while staking a claim in the blogosphere. On a different topic, the Advertiser needs to get better performance out of Plurk. That system is slow as molasses, especially during logins. Thanks for the thoughtful comments, Kim! That’s some good information regarding your schedule.

While I’d love to blog every hour or so and post a video or two each day, I do have to get some real work done. :)

Seriously, given , I think the writing is on the wall. The Advertiser is profitable, but they're still shedding employees.

Most of the non-local news stories are usually straight from the wire.

The Advertiser may have no choice but to move its local and breaking news coverage to a blog format, similar to the NY Times blogs. It’s a good way to post breaking news while staking a claim in the blogosphere.

On a different topic, the Advertiser needs to get better performance out of Plurk. That system is slow as molasses, especially during logins.

]]> By: Kim http://billso.com/2008/06/25/honolulu-advertiser-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-1322 Kim Wed, 23 Jul 2008 02:33:09 +0000 http://billso.com/?p=1736#comment-1322 Some good comments on the Advertiser blogs and blogs in general. I do think you're right -- the Advertiser and many of its bloggers are still trying to figure out blogging, BUT perhaps the more challenging issue that many of us face is balancing writing a blog with interviews, writing a story, and perhaps shooting and editing a video (although not recently) all in a 7.5-hour day. I write most of my blog entries between midnight and two in the morning. For me, it's simply because it's too difficult to take an hour or two off from working on a story during the day to post something on my blog. I'd love to do more of an Andrew Sullivan-type blog with posts every 30 minutes or more frequently, but unfortunately, for most of us, time doesn't yet allow that. Who knows, though, perhaps some day the Advertiser will pay someone to blog full time. Some good comments on the Advertiser blogs and blogs in general. I do think you’re right — the Advertiser and many of its bloggers are still trying to figure out blogging, BUT perhaps the more challenging issue that many of us face is balancing writing a blog with interviews, writing a story, and perhaps shooting and editing a video (although not recently) all in a 7.5-hour day.

I write most of my blog entries between midnight and two in the morning. For me, it’s simply because it’s too difficult to take an hour or two off from working on a story during the day to post something on my blog. I’d love to do more of an Andrew Sullivan-type blog with posts every 30 minutes or more frequently, but unfortunately, for most of us, time doesn’t yet allow that. Who knows, though, perhaps some day the Advertiser will pay someone to blog full time.

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