I was going to write a post about resolutions, but cruising my RSS reader today, I’ve found a number of people who’ve done a great job of providing solid advice, so I’ll let you peruse their excellent advice:

• Mark Hamilton provides some advice for the upcoming semester
• Suzanne Yada also has a lengthy list of resolutions for journalism students
• Whitney Rhodes has some advice for those j-students who are graduating
• Shawn Smith (whose blog I only today discovered) has some advice on p0wning 2009.
• Gina Chen has some advice for some more philosophical movements that need to be made in 2009.
• (update) Emily Kostic at Journalism 3.0 also has some advice for college news media.

My advice: It’s the same advice I’ve been giving for three years – Pick one thing to innovate and master it.

I have no doubt that 2009 will see enormous changes and technological shifts that rock the college media world. If we can take it one step at a time, I think we’ll all be in a better position to deal with what comes between now and 2010.

UPDATE: And if you’re looking for more crystal ball emphasis, here’s some Society of News Design predictions for the new year. Via Newstechzilla

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