Now, here’s a really pleasant surprise which really made my day on Thursday: This blog is included on Journalism.co.uk’s terrific list of 50 blogs by journalists, for journalists.
The news reached me when I was at the mercy of a very angry sinus infection, after having covered a ministerial visit to a building site on a freezing Monday afternoon, and I wasn’t even aware of the list being put together – so it was an extra pleasant surprise.
It must be said though, that this blog never did have journalists as its specific target group.
It just sort of ended up rather quickly as blog on information, social media, traditional media, media acquisitions, journalism and all those sort of things.
Over the years it has very much shaped my career and work, it was almost like this blog took on a life on its own – by the way it revealed me to be a media nerd, shaped my public persona and created all sorts of wonderful job offers and career avenues for me.
That is a major reason why these days I constantly regret not finding time to blog more here – I write for three different blogs, for a quite a while I was even paid to write a forth one for Norway’s most read news site, and at the moment I’m involved with quite a few book projects next to a very rewarding, full-time job.
Incidentally, one such project is a history of Norwegian blogging, an anthology, which is due to be published in March - so I've found myself reflecting a lot on my personal blogging history recently (I first got acquainted with blogs when I was doing work experience for a print newspaper close to Fleet Street in 2002, and it's so ironic to look back and realise that blogs ended up being much more helpful for my media career than that stint of work experience. I certainly had no idea it would turn out like this at the time).
These days though, I must admit I do more mental blogging than actual blogging. I have all these blog posts almost fully written up in my mind – I just need to find the time to actually sit down and do the writing. I keep promising myself I will do. In the meantime, it seems I’ve at least seen the end of that sinus infection. That’s a start, I guess.
Ooh, are you writing a whole book on Norwegian blogging history? Fantastic! I tried writing just a chapter on it and found it really hard, and I ended up really only writing about 2001... Would love a book about this to cite and read :)
And congratulations on the list - you deserve it!
Posted by: Jill Walker Rettberg | January 29, 2013 at 11:55 PM
Thank you! As for the book: No, no entire book, will clarify in the post. I've been involved with the very same anthology you've been writing for, but only as a consultant - and I think it's come together really nice. All the different voices tell their part of the story, and complement each other in a really good way - which in one way mirrors the blogging history better than one book written by one author would.
Posted by: Kristine Lowe | January 30, 2013 at 05:36 AM