WEdia

In broadcasting, we sometimes write phonetically with hard-to-pronounce words. But that's not why I've done it here. I wanted to use "WEdia" but some turkey has that name. I mean, a guy from Turkey has it, so maybe it means something in Turkish.
What it means to me is simply a little wordplay. We all use media, basically to find information for us and to give information about us. So, if the media is about us, I argue we should call it "WEdia."
And that's my way of posting my first Blog entry. I mean, I've posted things on a journalism Facebook group that probably resemble a blog, but this is the real thing. Andy Heller of The Flint Journal told a group of UMF students last fall that blogging has revitalized his writing career. (See, I put a link to Andy in there--that's one of the keys to blogging--to give links, and have others link to you. The goal in those cases is to capture eyeballs, so everyone reads your blog and advertisers clamor to buy space on it.) What he loves is the connection he makes with people who comment
I read somewhere, on Poynter's E-Media Tidbits perhaps, that some 7,000 new blogs are created each day. So, I suppose it's time that we as journalists join the crowd of writers, bloggers, whatever label we shall afix to ourselves. To do so, you can go to Google and search for Blogger and it will walk you through the 2 or 3 incredibly simple steps. Then, write your first post and send a link to your professor, as well as your family and friends, of course.
Lastly, make sure you put some labels, or tags, into your blog as keywords so people who are searching for something may find you. For instance, I'll add University of Michigan-Flint Journalism here and below, in the "Labels for this post" box.
Have fun! I'll look forward to seeing your blogs.