The former editor of the Times of London, Robert Thomson, spoke to students on Trends in Journalism, in August 2007, when on vacation in his home city of Melbourne Australia. He had some insightful advice on 4 types of successful blog.
The Branded Blog. A blog - someone famous, eg. The Huffington Post
Brilliant Writer Blog - [...]
So I’ve experimented over the past month with setting up various blogs. I’ve set up 27 sites in total (!), using either a custom WordPress install, or on Google’s hosted Blogger service. The idea is that I can set up microblogs on niche topics (aka Niche Blogs), and drive niche traffic to each site, to [...]
Thinking in pictures
I think in pictures, a lot of the time. I like to draw diagrams, arrows, pictures and processes to illustrate my methods of doing things.
This (rather crude) diagram illustrates my blogging process, which I use for my other blogs [...]