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Work and blogging – Like oil and water…

June 26, 2007 By Dan Thornton

Normally I try and avoid blogging about my job. There are numerous reasons, but the main ones are that when things are going well it’ll come across like an advert, and when things go badly it’ll come across like a whinge.

But I’m making an exception today. We’re looking for someone to join the team on Motor Cycle News and www.motorcyclenews.com, as a Junior Web Producer. You’ll be part of my team, doing everything from plugging our stories on social networking sites to editing video, along with dealing with technical problems, publishing stories, and learning about every aspect of running the largest motorcycle website in the world, along with working on the biggest selling motorcycle weekly in the world.

You don’t have to be a huge bike fan, but you do need to willing to learn. You also need to be a bit web savvy, and know your way around blogs, the main social networking sites, and have plenty of ideas for how we can build and develop the website, along with other digital projects.

I should be posting again with a full job spec, but in the meantime I thought I’d give my loyal readers a quick heads up! If you are interesed in finding out more or applying, then just email daniel dot thornton at emap dot com.

Normal service will be resumed tomorrow….

Finding the work/life/web balance…

March 9, 2007 By Dan Thornton

I’ve written in the past about internet schizophrenia resulting from signing up to too many sites.

But recently I’ve suffered the same problem from committing to too many projects, and a compulsion to be online, contactable, and working on all of them.

Recently I’ve worked on:
The relaunch of motorcyclenews.com.
The relaunch of disposablemedia.co.uk.
Becoming Editor of the Dipsosable Media PDF magazine (Issue 6 out now!)
Freelance writing for Strategy Informer.
Freelance writing for Gamestyle.
Freelance writing for Eurogamer.
Blogging here.
Blogging at BadgerGravling
Blogging at Updated Sayings

*phew*….I think that’s the lot. Oh, and there are plenty of things going on in my personal life, including one of the biggest and most stressful things people can ever experience (It involves putting things into cardboard boxes, then unpacking them again somewhere else)

So I’ve had to take some time to evaluate which of these gives the most pleasure, the most reward, and the most benefits to either myself or my career. It’s something I don’t do enough, because I want to get involved everywhere and do everything.

Step one is to file emails as soon as they arrive, and be honest to myself about which ones I’m never going to use/reply to.

Step two is to clear out bookmarks and particularly RSS feeds for sites I never read or use. I’m paranoid that one day someone will be discover the secret of wealth, happiness and eternal life and I’ll miss it, but if it’s truly an important story, it’ll end up on one of my other RSS feeds anyway.

So, anyone got any tech tips for step three in making me less stressed, and more organised?

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