In this month’s first-ever Blast Cover Podcast, I bring up an interesting journalism question. Blast recently got an exclusive interview with the cast of “Hank,” Kelsey Grammer’s latest return to prime time. We did a great story, and we were happy to have the access. But there was one problem: The show stinks. It’s getting [...]
Last week’s profile of a race car driver for The Boston Globe was my first sports article (not counting news for Blast’s defunct sports section). There was some networking here. After the story was published, Skipper Hull and I spoke again about him doing some car stories for Blast. We just started an automotive section. [...]
It’s time to start blogging again. I have a voice, and I want to share that with you. Whether you like it or not. I’m going to talk about my exploits as a freelance journalist and the editor of the happy little online magazine, Blast. This isn’t going to be a Live Journal or a [...]
Today’s props go to Tom Chambers, who released a plugin for WordPress that puts dates and times into Associated Press style. Kudos! Blast Magazine is using it now!
I have really loved using WordPress to power BlastMagazine.com, but I have been having two huge problems lately. First, we do not use WordPress Widgets. We use WAY too many plugins and have about 15 different variations of a sidebar on Blast, so we aren’t using Widgets. But it seems like everyone is converting the [...]
BlastMagazine.com, two years old, 1,400 articles, 999 user comments. “Twilight Sucks” article on BlastMagazine.com’s PSA blog, 1,428 comments. One thousand, four hundred, and twenty eight comments in a single article.
Something amazing happened. Blast has managed to rally both the hordes of Twlight fangirls, fanmoms and crazy fanboys and the pointedly anit-Twlight crowd in one day. I don’t have a strong opinion either way, but it’s amazing to read all the responses we’re getting to both our several Twilight features and our well-written “Twilight Sucks” [...]
Blast Magazine has three (3) sports blogs: PSA, This is God Given, and Off the Record. None of them are covering the Olympics. In fact, the only serious coverage Blast has given the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing consisted of the three pieces I did on the American that was killed Saturday. And this sample [...]
Blast recently awarded the Atari-published game N+ the best handheld game of E3. The game’s developer, SilverBirch Studios, put out a press release thanking us and GamingExcellence, which gave N+ an award for best PSP game. “This is obviously a great honor for us,” said Wojtek Kawczynski, Senior Vice President, SilverBirch Studios. “Winning two awards [...]