The Modern Journalist

Where’s Brad

I’ve been a bit on the MIA side for the past few weeks but that hardly means The Modern Journalist is going away.

Quite the contrary. I’ve been doing a few things that are moving my project along quite well — in no small measure to some of my readers, my blog readers and — let’s face it — India.

What I’m working on:

1. I’ve done 30 interviews so  far for the book using Skype and Pamela for Skype, and amazing recording device that let’s me capture every call as a .WAV file. I love it.
2. On Thursday, I’ll start shipping off the first of these interviews to India for transcription.
3. Next week, I’ll then begin putting behind the firewall on the PBWiki that I’ll be using to craft the individual sections. Only those I’ve interviewed will have access to this — but it will hopefully make the writing process more accurate.
4. I’m finishing up the proposal on Thursday and it’s going out to everyone who has said they would help me — with the goal of having it off to at least one press next wee.
5. The NING social network is about to get re-invigorated as well — so for those of you commenting over there — thanks — and for those interested, please join us.
6. Finally, once the proposal is out — I’ll be picking up steam again with the blog.

It’s an exciting time for me — finishing up the proposal and talking to so many amazing social media folks. It’s been a great deal of fun so far — only like 150 more interviews to go :)