Social Media Success
As some of you already know, this year I’m making the transition from “writer, editor, and blogger” to “writer, editor, blogger, and author. That’s right. I am gonna sell a book this year, darn it! As...
View ArticleFreelance Ethics Part 2
I had the opportunity earlier this month to be a panelist at the Vocus User Conference here in Washington DC. All the flacks wanted to hear what the Future of Media looks like from a freelance...
View ArticleCoding, coding, and more coding
I’ve finally gotten my website to a state where I’m happy with it..for now, though in a few months I’m sure the renovation bug will hit me again. Some people buy new curtains, I play with style sheets....
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Testing MacJournal
I’m testing out MacJournal, from Mariner Software. It’s an offline blog editing client that works with WordPress and a few other blog hosts. I’m told that it even works with WordPress.com (i.e., you...
View ArticleYou Wanna Write A ‘Me Too’ Story? Fine, But Get Your Own Sources
This blog is turning into a place to vent. Today I want to vent about poaching sources. A few times I’ve been contacted by people saying very nice, flattering things about something I’d written lately,...
View ArticleOff to Austin, See You There!
I fly out to Austin for SXSW tomorrow, a day early, but then the craziness starts in earnest soon after. Heading down? Hit me up on Twitter and maybe we’ll meet up. I wasn’t super excited about a lot...
View ArticleTaking My Own Advice: BACKUP!
I almost lost my entire blog last week. Something (I have theories about what) somehow managed to corrupt my WordPress database, erasing every entry since 2008. That’s pretty much all my clips and...
View ArticleThe Ultimate High School Curriculum
Inspired by The Oatmeal’s fantastic take on high school classes I began thinking about what the most useful classes I took in high school were. Besides the hard science courses, which have turned out...
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Lessons From the Library of Congress for Researchers
Three buildings, two librarians, and six hours into my first “real” Library of Congress visit, I’m no closer to getting the research done that I wanted to do. When you’re doing science writing it’s...
View ArticleThe perils of not specializing
A couple of months ago I got rejected from a freelance position because my undergraduate degree was in English, not the sciences. Then a few days later, I got rejected from a freelance position at the...
View ArticleWhere I’ve been
Where haven’t I been is more like it. Since last updating this site (eek it’s been a while) I’ve started a gig as editor of a local D.C. online publication, written and published a book, gone to three...
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Workin’ on my public speaking
Here’s me introducing folks at Elevation DC’s latest event on June 30, 2015. I promise I’m not that concerned all the time. No related posts.
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