Talking about blogging

An interesting — to me, at least — debate has errupted in the blogosphere about why, or if, all journalists should have blogs. Much the same can be argued about people doing any job.

I have joined in the discussion today at Wordblog, saying the motivation and acquiring the ability to do it well are important. I include a link to the BBC’s guidelines for employees who blog: they are a model of reasonable rules that should apply in every business.

The discussion was sparked by Scott Karp who also gives some tips for people starting to blog (you need to scroll down to get to them). The first three are relevant to all starting bloggers and include the choice of blogging software. Scott recommends WordPress as the best hosted platform. SuffolkMac is on WordPress, so I naturally agree and will be demonstrating it at the meeting next week.