On the first day of PICNIC we celebrated the book launch of Cultural Bloggers Interviewed. In April 2009 Annette Wolfsberger interviewed me for this book about my blogging practices and experiences. The book explores the role of blogging in the cultural sector and includes cultural bloggers like We Make Money Not Art‘s Régine Debatty and Neural‘s Alessandro Ludovico.

The book launch consisted of a Q&A with Annette Wolfsberger, me and Michelle Kasprzak from Curating.info. We shared our thoughts on the role and practice of blogging within the cultural sector. Reading back my own interview from almost 1,5 years ago it is a nice documentation of trying to find my way between blogging and using other social media like Twitter.

Download the book as a PDF from the Lab for Culture website for free!

On April 20, 2009 Annette Wolfsberger from Lab for Culture interviewed me via Skype chat about cultural blogging. We talked about blogging cultural events and conferences and how to professionalise this field.

Steps to professionalising blogging within culture:

• Getting started with blogging;
• Building a profile;
• Live blog conferences in exchange for a ticket;
• Live blog conferences for compensation.

Read the whole interview on the Lab for Culture website.