I’m sitting in a conference with a big Power Point slide that says, “What makes bloggers employable?” I don’t think there’s a good answer. Almost no one gets paid in this business. But if you want to make the transition to blogging for a corporate enterprise, you can’t be too bombastic, too morally outraged, or too critical of the people who are already working there. Maybe someone will prove me wrong this weekend and and offer to pay me to write for them.
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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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I hope someone does. You’d be an asset to any organization.
Are you an Ivy League graduate? That seems to help.
really?
i’m gettin paid a decent sum per column to essentially call chaka fattah, ed rendell, and arlen specter royal assholes. the philly weekly is a corporate enterprise that owns several papers in philly and new jersey.
you are nowhere near as bombastic as me. i think it’s matter of marketing oneself properly.
I think to be employable you’d have to give up everything that makes your work worth reading.
It’s not just being less outraged, you have to learn to write the boss’s opinions not your own. You have to forget about what’s good for the country and think only of what’s good for the corporation.
You also have to stop interacting with your readers. I despise the so-called “blogs” run by my local newspapers, which are exactly like every other article – a writer posts something, readers may leave comments, the writer NEVER EVER responds to the comments. Not even comments that are polite and intelligent and don’t call him a fat moron.