After 6 Months of Pro Blogging

With it being the first week of July, this marks the beginning of my seventh month of writing for ReadWriteWeb. During graduate school for journalism, I never thought I would find myself writing (I was looking into multimedia/digital career options), but here I am six months later, and I am loving it so far. I think my lack of enthusiasm for writing was for writing in the traditional newspaper style – blogging is much more up my alley, and I’ve been doing it since 2004.

I wanted to take this moment to share some information about both the site I work for and my experiences there thus far. The founder of ReadWriteWeb, Richard MacManus, has given a few interviews lately during his trips to the U.S. and he does a great job describing the site and what makes it unique. Here’s a video from an interview with ABC News Radio’s Dan Patterson.

And for a longer discussion about the site, our process, marketing, advertising, etc – check out this interview Richard gave to Cali Lewis and John P. on the Wealth Nation podcast.

In six months at RWW, I have written 325 articles with over 1,500 comments on topics ranging from advice for startups, to general breaking tech news to my personal trend/niche beat – augmented reality. I’ve had the chance to travel to Boulder for Startup Week, to Mountain View for the RWW Mobile Summit, to Santa Clara for the Augmented Reality Event, and most recently to San Diego for Qualcomm’s Uplinq 2010.

I’ve learned from my time at RWW that I want to make tech journalism my career, and I’m lucky to have such a great start to it. I’ve taken a few steps towards furthering this goal, including doubling the RAM on my iMac, buying a second monitor for increased productivity, and bestickering my laptop like any self-respecting blogger.

So anyway, here’s to the next sixth months, during which I will hopefully have more fun and news to share.