Posted by Kelby Carr in mommy blogging, new media, social networking, web 2.0 on 09 9th, 2008 | View Comments

When Blog Kharma Has Rewards

I know I have said it before, but there is actually a good reason to be nice online. There is actually a totally and completely selfish reason (in that Where’s Earl? kind of way). It’s that whole blog kharma thing. I write nice things and help out other bloggers, and they do the same for...
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Posted by Kelby Carr in journalism, new media on 05 14th, 2008 | View Comments

Guess What News Business? Bias Was OK After All…

I sort of laughed/cried to read about some silly nonsense Geek Wars between Wired and Techcrunch in Techcrunch’s post, “ OK, Wired, Let’s Do This!” In essence, Wired (interestingly enough, the Old School journalist in this scenario) has attacked the Techcrunch blog (new media),...
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Posted by Kelby Carr in freelance writing, journalism, new media on 04 13th, 2008 | View Comments

Why I Ditched Print for Web Writing

Deb Ng of Freelance Writing Gigs recently had a great post, “ Print vs. Web: Why the Two Will Never Be the Same.” It’s still interesting to me, even in this era of Web Content as King, how many people still think a writer only goes for web to get a career started (or as a last resort). People...
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