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My New Gig: Editor Of Technology Daily

Sharon McLoone, my boss for the past six years and the last original staff member of the Technology Daily team here at National Journal, has decided not to return to work after her recent maternity leave. As a result, I have been promoted to the editorship of Tech Daily.

The promotion will have some impact on Beltway Blogroll, just because of the time demands of the new job. I won't be giving up the blog -- as if I could! -- but I will be curtailing some of the regular content.

As much as I like writing the Friday Festival Of Blog Bits to recap the week's highlights from the blogosphere, it has to go. The weekly roundup just takes too much of my time from the family on Thursday evenings. I'll probably still write occasional link-heavy roundup entries, and perhaps more of them during the week, but the weekly format just proved to be too demanding.

I also have discontinued the column about the policy and political impact of blogs that I have written every other week for more than a year. I have done that work on weekends, and I'm determined to give my wife and children more attention when I'm not at the office. My children deserve more time sitting in my lap than some machine built by Dell.

Yes, that's right ... wait for it ... here it comes ... I want to spend more time with my family.

I still enjoy the work I do here. The time I spend in the blogosphere and writing about it also generates regular story ideas for Tech Daily, so it has become an extension of my full-time job to some extent. I may even be blogging more because I'll be doing less of the formal writing that has consumed so much of my free time.

All of which is to say, please keep Beltway Blogroll on your reading list.

Posted by Danny | 10:03 AM

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