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Work Update
Self-Scheduling
Things have been a little interesting in the realm of journalism for me. I’ve finaly set up a work schedule for myself at Adotas that will hopefully let me crank out about 2 feature articles and one editorial per week. The schedule is stagard, meaning that I come up with the article idea and start researching and setting up interviews two weeks in advance. The actual writing will be done on the articles I was researching the previous week.
I have no idea if this will work, but we’ll see.
Creative differences w/ editor
Last week I wrote an article about Digg 3.0. It basically detailed some of the new features of Digg from an online marketing perspective. I’m not happy with the way the article turned out, but deadlines are deadlines. But the thing that bugged me the most was that my editor changed the title to one that made the article sound like it was a regular old review or description of Digg 3.0 (of which there are a million already) rather than something aimed at marketers.
It’s certainly his perogative to make such a decision and I’ll stand by it, but it peeves me none the less. I was really pushing to make the article stand out from all the other Digg 3.0 descriptions out there. Part of it was I just couldn’t seem to get away from the “here’s all this cool new stuff” mentality. At least I got a chance to interview Kevin Rose. He really is a nice guy.
Need sleepy
And finally I was amazed at how much I was able to get done at work yesterday after having gotten a good nights sleep the night before. So kids, listen to you parents and GO TO BED!