Quote of the day
“In the Gawker world, every item is potentially part of a longer drama, a narrative to unfold in time (with links to old Gawker posts).” – “The Optimist’s Blogger,” NYTimes.com
I’m telling you, this art of the quest stuff isn’t just all in my head.
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Tina Double Dips
You never know where MindShift’s Tina Barseghian is going to pop up. Somedays it’s Huffington Post, today it’s the PBS MediaShift blog. Her latest, a re-posting of an interview with Palo Alto educator Esther Wojcicki, explores (among other things) whether … Read More
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Wrap-up: Strategy and planning
As we prepare to retire the Argo blog, we’re producing a series of wrap-up posts that capture key aspects of the model we used. This post is part of that series. You can find all our tools and lessons here. … Read More
- Wrap-up: The basics of blogging
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In case you missed it, CommonHealth kudos
It’s been quiet here the past few weeks, as we’ve been on the road. Today, I had check-ins with several of the Argo-bloggers after our gathering on the West Coast. There’s a ton of great stuff happening in Argo Land, … Read More
- Follow-up: The new journalistic value
- Dark secret of blogging #6: Explain, explain, explain.
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The Denton memo: beyond blogging
At this point, half of the Argo-bloggers have already sent me the latest Denton memo, and I imagine the other half have drafts ready to go. For now, I present it mostly without comment. A few selected nuggets are below … Read More
- A good point about Gawker and porn
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Dark secret of blogging #5: Own the system, own the story.
We know we can’t easily break the world down into neat, manageable patterns. But I’ve never met a great beat reporter who didn’t try. As we gain expertise in a subject area, we can’t help applying patterns to it - establishing … Read More
- Dark secret of blogging #4: Learn the art of the quest.


