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Each time lucky! Today was the third and the last session on blogging for journalists before Christmas and a good time was had by all again. It is such a pleasure to have varied and intelligent people coming to have a chat with us and no two sessions have been the same. We learn much about their perceptions of blogs and online world as well as motivation to investigate the blogging trend. One of the journalists was asking more about the mechanics of self-publishing, such as domains, servers, backing up the content. He saw his blog more as a structured online archive of his articles that he would use to build his reputation as a financial journalist. Another one did not worry about the software and its trick, he was wondering about what to write about and the oddness of people knowing about him more from his blog than he’d know about them…

All in all, it was a good series of ‘bootcamps’ and we are going to carry on doing them. The next one is on 30th December (for the keen and free) on that day and then 10th January looks a likely date. The sessions, originally scheduled for an hour, do take much longer because we try to address individual concerns and perspectives. In any case, those who attended know that they are welcome to come back with suggestions and more questions.