Holy crap

Nearly 1/3 of a year without a post. Too long!

I have been talking with some newspapers about applying for jobs when my time with the Manitoban is done, and the consensus seems to be that blogging is one of the new requirements that they all have.

It seems that in this "new media" world a journalist is more than someone who performs research and organizes that research into a format that can be widely consumed by an audience; we also have to be social media experts.

I recently attended a journalism conference in Edmonton, and was surprised by the lack of talks dealing with actual journalism. The majority — admittedly a slim majority, but a majority none the less — of the speakers were non-professionals, from the realm of social media. Indeed, even the final keynote speaker, was a podcaster.

So what does this mean for me? Well, I need to get more regular with my posting. I find with myself that establishing habits is the best way to do something regularly, and the best way to establish a habit — for me at least — is to do something so often that I feel weird without it.

So here I go.