Author Archives: Joe Brockmeier

Joe Brockmeier

I am a journalist, tech writer, FLOSS advocate, and community builder.

Blogging 101: Conducting interviews for media

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 3/10/2010
A good friend of mine from the FLOSS community is going to be doing some interviews for his blog at an upcoming conference, and asked for a few tips on interviewing. Interviewing is not a science, but an art: And art requires practice. I don't claim to be the world's best interviewer: Most of the interviews [...]
Posted in Blogging 101, Front Page, Journalism, Writing | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

GNOME Booth at Texas Linux Fest?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 3/8/2010
Texas Linux Fest is rapidly approaching. The GNOME Project is looking for one or two friendly volunteers to help run the GNOME booth at TLF on April 10th. The event is going to be held at the Monarch Event Center in Austin, TX. I'm going to be helping with the booth, but I'm giving one [...]
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Finding sources for FLOSS projects: Make it easy!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 3/5/2010
One of the more difficult things for reporters working in the tech industry, especially those who aren't really familiar with a beat, is finding contacts for free software projects. Increasingly, projects like GNOME or openSUSE are in mainstream news, but finding someone to "speak for" those projects can be a challenge. This is doubly true when [...]
Posted in Front Page, GNOME, Journalism, Linux.com, PR and marketing, openSUSE | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

Writing professionally: Do you really want to?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/23/2010
I get a lot of emails from a friends, colleagues, acquaintances, or random strangers asking me how to get started writing. Since the question comes up a lot, I thought it might be worth a post here. Maybe it will help some of the people who haven't asked yet, or at least it'll give me [...]
Posted in Blogging 101, Front Page, Writing | Tagged , | 3 Comments

A New Role in Journalism?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/22/2010
TechDirt points to a discussion about today's newsroom and the idea a new role in a newsroom: Curators. That is, someone who would help readers by sorting, organizing, verifying, and editing information that's already on the Web or in the media. Traditional journalists might look down on this, as journalism programs really focus hot and heavy [...]
Posted in Front Page, Journalism | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Apple banning racy content? Why now?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/20/2010
Just read that Apple has tightened its restrictions on all the crap "boob, babe, and bikini" apps in the App Store. What took so long? I get sick of seeing all the crap apps in the App Store, especially when Apple restricts legitimate but "competing" applications. If Apple is going to play gatekeeper, then they should [...]
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A Look at HTML Tidy

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/20/2010
One thing I love about the UNIX philosophy is the idea that each program should do one job and do it really well. There are zillions of small tools for UNIX-type OSes that make life much easier and are hugely useful, but they don't necessarily get written about. They certainly don't receive the same kind [...]
Posted in Articles, Front Page, Linux, Open Source, Tips, Web design | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

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