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Blogging 101: Conducting interviews for media

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 [...]
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Blogging 101: Take a Tip from Newswriting with the Five W's

Who? When? Why? What? Where? How? If you don't answer those questions, why bother blogging at all? The "Five W's" as they're often called (and one H) are drilled into every journalism student as crucial for news-writing. Who is involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? How and why did it happen? And, for [...]
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Tagging: How useful is it?

Just posted another update to my blog, checked it, and realized (once again) I had forgotten to tag my post. It seems redundant, since WordPress allows tagging and categories. It seems to me a few years ago "tagging" things was all the rage -- we'd be able to organize and sort everything with tags. Now it [...]
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