Guardian: Guardian chief arts correspondent on making the the move to blogging

journalism.co.uk     Jul 23, 2008            

Art on the move ... Charlotte Higgins blogs beside a Tracey Emin bronze at the Folkestone Triennial. Photograph: Martin Godwin It was the Royal Shakespeare Company that really made me fall in love with the web. I'd been doing a little blogging on the side, for the Guardian, for a while. I was even rather an early adopter, as the paper's erstwhile Backrow Blogger, reporting on those aspects of the arts that don't exactly qualify as news, from irritating conductors' tics to overcrowded art galleries. But this spring I set myself the challenge of blogging my way through all of Shakespeare's history plays, 24 whole hours of them, from the RSC's productions at the Roundhouse in London. During each interval, and in every break between plays, I sat hunched over my laptop, writing about what I'd just seen. I would never pretend that... [read full story]                    

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