Okay, you’ll have noticed I’ve been a little quiet these last couple of weeks, especially after all that noise about running a blog for Birmingham. Well, a spanner was thrown into the works of all that, but it was a really nice spanner. Possibly the nicest spanner I’ve seen for a while as a matter of fact.
As of today, and for the next three months, I’m a professional blogger. Which even this age when every company that matters has people on staff dedicated to blogging still seems a really weird statement, like being a professional tea drinker. So what does Pete being a professional blogger actually mean?
In short it means I’m getting paid a decent amount of money, enough to support my frugal lifestyle anyway, to write a weblog full time.
The title of the blog is Created in Birmingham and its remit is to survey all the creative activity in the city in blog form, from artists to writers to film makers to designers to musicians… all of them and the organisations and agencies that support them.
Which is why I’ve been kinda quiet of late as I try to figure out exactly what the hell that involves. I think I’ve got a handle on it though. Best to read the about page to find out more.
The main thing I want to do, though, is to make sure it’s an actual weblog and not just a bunch of articles and interviews dumped online. It’s quite different to the sort of blogging I’ve been doing here – I’m talking to people and relating their ideas in my own voice, something I never do on peteashton.com, and the tone is a little more formal – but I’m keen for it to have a narrative and a personality that runs through it as it develops.
In the meanwhile I will, of course, keep running this blog and I’m very keen to keep the Brum Blog going with the aim of eventually spinning it off onto it’s own site in the new year. However, while I get CiB off the ground I’m going to be a little distracted, so bear with me.
So, yeah. Professional blogger!
Howabout that?
Its been a long time coming, and well deserved. Well done sir.
Excellent stuff, Pete.
I’ve RSS-ed you!
This is fantastic, Pete. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer bloke, either.
If it’s not a rude question (and just tell me to shut up if it is) – who is your employer?
Can I safely assume that you want news of its existance spread far and wide, too?
Doh, sorry, I’ve just read it rather than skim-reading it. Ignore question one.
I will substitute this, instead: Is it significant that you’ve gone for the standard Wordpress template-style background? I know you’ve considered these things with an air of distain in the past.
Well done Pete – well deserved!
Great news, well done.
Hurrah! Beats chickens, anyway.
Oh congratulations. Very well deserved!
nice one pete!
Howabout that indeed! Congratulations, you have earned the right to be a pro.
Ah very cool, if you need a hand with any WordPressness then just give me a shout