I have returned!

Okay, so I took a little unexpected break from the blog, but I have since been re energized with some Social Media Fuel and have decided to return to posting. With the idea that social media is rapidly growing, probably even faster than I can imagine, I thought it might be interesting to anyone out there looking at expanding their knowledge of "PR 2.0" by checking out just some of the sites that I subscribe to (not that I know even close to everything about new media communications, but I do have a pretty heavy new media diet).

I’ve included just about everything in my regular new media diet, not just things PR related. Hopefully this will give some newcomers to the new media world an easy way to get their feet wet, as well as give some "veterans" an idea of what else there is out there that they may not have stumbled upon yet.

What else is everyone subscribing to? Leave responses in the comments.

Communities I belong to
Digg
Del.icio.us
New Media Release Google Group
Flickr

Podcasts I Listen to/watch
For Immediate Release – The Hobson and Holtz Report
New Comm Road
This Week in Tech - TWiT
NPR – On the Media
Steve Garfield's Video Blog
TEDTalks
The Show with Ze Frank
Ask a Ninja
Diggnation

My absence

Okay, so maybe my promise to up my posting frequency hasn't been completely fulfilled. I used to look forward to blogging, but now it seems to have become more of a chore than a hobby.

I'm not sure if it is because I am actually working in PR now and have got exhausted that it is the last thing I want to think about when I get home at the end of the day, my disappointments with Blogger Beta, or just the fact that I'd rather not blog at all than do poorly researched, bland, and uninteresting posts about developments in the PR/new-media worlds.

When I first got into blogging, I made sure that it was something I enjoyed. I am hesitant to completely abandon this method of personal expression, but would rather look into new ways to refine jamesonbull.com/blog.

Maybe this will become my comments on my adventures in triathlon, political views, making fun of the disgusting and insulting junk that local news stations spew every day... or whatever it is that is on my mind at the time...

I'm not expecting this to die, but would rather expand it, mold it, shape it, and just have fun with it. I'm still tossing a few ideas around in my head, but I'll let you know what I settle on.