“Friday with Foremski” Coming to Chron
Cool, this just in, Tom Foremski, editor and publisher of the Silicon Valley Watcher and SNCR cohort, just emailed me to say he’ll be starting a new column for the San Francisco Chronicle’s SFgate.com site called “Friday with Foremski,” which will look at Silicon Valley gossip and trends, and will appear (I assume) later this month.
This news comes on the heels of last week’s introduction of the Chron’s new business tech blog (”The Tech Chronicles“), and appears to be yet another step forward for the paper’s broader social media initiative, which just in the last year or so has successfully rolled out several new blogs and podcasts, and continues to experiment with content syndication and new forms of news personalization.
It’s also interesting to watch the “watcher’s” media career continue to evolve. In the best ways, Foresmki has become the poster child for a new breed of journalist. It started with his departure (ironically) from the Financial Times in early 2004, and the subsequent development and launch of Silicon Valley Watcher later that year. Multiple links later, he started contributing a weekly column to ZDNet (see IMHO), and now this news today that he’ll be a regular columnist for the Chron. It’s nice to see the dividends of hard work beginning to pay off, good luck with this latest endeavor, Tom.
Update: “Fridays with Foremski” made its debut today (read it here), this from Tom: “It is a great thrill for me to be writing for one of the longest established news organizations in the US, and also to be working with the excellent editorial team in the business section, Al Saracevic, Tom Abate, Dan Fost and many others.”
The following posts chronicle a handful of my entries related to Tom Foremski’s moves/news the last two years. In some states, this would be called stalking;) Enjoy.
Tom Foremski, Media Trailblazer? (June ‘04)
Survey: Which Journalist Will Become a Full-Time Blogger? (June ‘04) (Results)
Tom Foremski to Launch New Blog “SiliconValleyWatcher” (Sept. ‘04)
Voce Visits with Tom Foremski (Dec. ‘04)
Why Do You Blog? The “Watcher” Answers. (Jan. ‘05)
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