Some Blogs Done Well

As you ponder what makes a good blog post, I thought some examples of professional blogs done well might help:

* Poynter's Romensko does a terrific job at aggregation: It provides summary briefs on focused topics and links to multiple sources in each post. Everything is attributed, often with direct quotes, back to the original source.

* The Washington Post's  Post Tech, written by Cecilia Kang, is a reported blog; it's in essence very short stories with lots of links back to sources.

* Jeff Jarvis' Buzz Machine is written much more as a short opinion column. But again, it's focused on one topic, its details are extremely specific, and there are numerous links back to sources for each point made.

All, because they are blogs, allow for reader interaction--comments.

On our blog, the comments come from those in the class.

As newbie journalists, please try to model your posts more after either Romensko's or Kang's examples.

And if you're having trouble finding the link button on our blogging tool, it's five icons to the right of the Italics button. Simply highlight the words you want to link from in your post, then cut and paste the URL of the link into the pop-up box.