As of this week, my new job is my old job. After a couple of months working on a very interesting investigative project, I’ve returned to the revived Press Gazette as something called “Content Editor”. I’m not sure what that means, either — except that I’ll be looking after the web site again.
In today’s print edition, Pieman Graham Holliday attempts to dispels the notion that the blogosphere is full of ranting lunatics by giving some old-media link love to the community of journalism bloggers on his — and my — blogroll.
The spread includes profiles of Greenslade by Roy Greenslade, Wordblog by Andrew Grant-Adamson, Adrian Monck, Cybersoc by Robin Hamman, Sacred Facts by Richard Sambrook, Online Journalism Blog by Paul Bradshaw, Virtual Economics by Seamus McCauley, Shane Richmond, Complete Tosh by Neil McIntosh, Andy Dickinson, Richard Burton, Strange Attractor by Suw Charman and Kevin Anderson — and the anonymous Vickywatch.
Update: Seamus makes a very good observation about the blogroll:
Odd to think that Lloyd Shepherd and Simon Waldman, both of whom would surely have been a shoe-in less than a year ago, didn’t make the list – presumably because Lloyd wrapped up his blog mid 2006 and Simon posts very rarely these days (though when he does, it’s a real doozy).
Absolutely right — And Lloyd Shepherd’s new blog also frequently has great stuff.
Update 9/2/07: Graham has posted some details about how he went about producing this, and what it all means.
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Martin – YOU are one of the UK’s leading journo bloggers…
He’s not too shoddy, is he? But, I wasn’t allowed to include him. You got his spot, by a nose.
Martin,
Adrian is right. And its good to see you back at the Press Gazette.
I subscribe every of you! I kiss you!
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Martin isnt in!!
I haven’t seen the spread yet apart from the image above so I couldn’t make out all who where in. I assumed Martin was being coy by not including his inclusion in his links above.
Surly he is the hub of all uk journalism blogging traffic?
Congratulations on your new role. Great to see you back at PG full time – hope you keep up the fantastic blog too.
I’ll add my voice to the chorus calling for your inclusion. You’re at the top of my MyGoogle…
What I don’t really get is this. Blogrolls are fine, in a scratch-your-back way, but aren’t regularly updated, and don’t do much except tell passing computers that you have a link. Do people really investigate a linkroll of 500 names? I think they’d be more likely to investigate one with 5.
So… aren’t the links that one generates in posts far more valuable and telling? They’re like the news as opposed to the masthead. They tell you what’s happening. Now, a blogroll of the last 50 links you have (a bit like Delicious, but generated from one’s own posts) would be more informative.
That’s a good point. I suspect blogrolls are most valuable for the first few days of a new blog’s existence, when they help alert those on the list that a new blog by someone interested in them exists because Technorati eventually spots them. For an established blog, they are probably kind of pointless.
The idea for this came about from an IM conversation I had with Graham about which blogs rise to the top of the NetNewsWire RSS reader when you turn on “Sort by Attention”.
“Which blogs account for the most frequently-read feeds in my bloated RSS reader?” didn’t have the same ring to it…
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