Through Contently.com, I have become a frequent technology and smartphone app writer for Mozy.com’s blog. To-date, I’ve interviewed founders and team members from Voxer, Bondsy, Striiv, and Paperweight Magazine, and helped publicize a flurry of other innovative newcomers in the tech world.
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Amazin’ Avenue is the featured New York Mets blog under the SB Nation umbrella. AA is widely regarded as the most high-brow Mets blog (in the most saturated sports blogging market), as it properly utilizes the latest advanced statistics to back already interesting topics. As a long time reader, it was flattering to receive the opportunity to jump aboard as a contributor.
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![Brandchannel is a Interbrand-owned blog that reports and analyzes the latest in the brand world. The site also won a Webby Award in 2003. I’ve written everything from Tim Tebow’s fall from [brand] grace to an article about porn (well, sort of).
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Brandchannel is a Interbrand-owned blog that reports and analyzes the latest in the brand world. The site also won a Webby Award in 2003. I’ve written everything from Tim Tebow’s fall from [brand] grace to an article about porn (well, sort of).
Sure, Guy Speed likes to feature a lot content about hot chicks and sex, but that’s not why they hired me. I write a weekly baseball, food, and humor column there. So what do I know about sex? (Answer: nothing).
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With over 60 million unique monthly visitors, Yahoo! Sports is the second most read sports website on the internet. And as its lead New York Mets blogger, my work is staged in front of a wide, and very disgruntled Mets fan base. Hopefully the combination of advanced statistics and analogies of the team’s offense to stinky, native Southeast Asian fruit will become a welcome voice.
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Medium is a place for writers to run free. There are no shortage of topics, ideas, or curse-words (if need be). The site’s founders are Ev Williams and Biz Stone, the fellows behind Twitter. It’s open to the public to read (if you have a Twitter account), but currently on an invite-only basis for writers.
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Baseball News Source is an up-and-coming baseball news website founded by a former Tampa Bay Rays ESPN writer. As a free-lancer, I am commissioned to react to recent acquisitions (free-agent signings, trades, etc…), as well as write “opinion pieces” anchored by mainstream analytical statistics.
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In my first six months out of college, I had the pleasure of working in both the Footage/Production and Writing departments for ONN (Onion News Network). Besides being in the company of the most talented comedy minds in the business, arguably the coolest moment was actually seeing my “one liner” published in the Biden/Hennessy video. If you look closely at around the 1:18 mark, you’ll see my “Biden Requests His Character Be Killed Off So He Can Pursue Future Projects” contribution. And yes, I was paid $10 (pre-taxes).
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Huffington Post is the king of the unpaid writing gig. Unlike other sites that promise “future” compensation or just “experience,” Huff Po actually puts their money where their mouth is (in terms of exposure). With a daily audience of over ten million people, my work was put in front of an astounding volume of readers. From making fun of a recently deceased Patrick Swayze to analyzing the impact of Mike Hampton’s retirement from professional baseball, there has always been a place for my words in Ariana-Land.
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I make many blogs. It is a problem, and a lot of people resent me more than Newt Gingrich for it. While I’ve had blogs dedicated to the fake news, food, and sports worlds, I haven’t really gotten around to creating a personal blog. You know, a blog for revealing my fear of Gothic architecture, deep hatred of vertical postcards, and even that one time I got an abortion when I was seventeen (we’ll always have Paris, Richard). But that void has now been filled with “Blah Blah Berkon.” Enjoy [or fucking hate] it!](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhgd35mCAb1qanjhzo1_r5_250.png)
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The Beanball is a place for no-nonsense, stat-backed, baseball analysis. While many other baseball sites and blogs rely on fact-less, gut-based opinions, The Beanball isn’t afraid to crowd the plate with logic–even if that means taking criticism where it hurts. No player, General Manager, or team is safe if there’s a statistical angle worth exploring. So watch out—especially you, Jeff Francoeur.
The Beanball has been featured on mainstream sites like MLB Trade Rumors, MetsBlog, Amazin’ Avenue, and many others.
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In December 2010, I was handed a fledgling, neglected New York Mets blog: it rarely touched a hundred views in a given day, and the content was amateur and seldom updated at that. It was fair to say that Rising Apple, the featured Mets blog on the FanSided network, was a very small fish in the large pond that is the Mets blogoshere. Yet, after a year-plus under my reign as the Senior Editor, Rising Apple’s traffic increased over 1000%, and became a frequently linked source on MLB Trade Rumors, Mets Blog, Amazin’ Avenue, and is now partnered with SI.com. I stepped down in August 2012 to focus on other writing endeavors, but Rising Apple remains a credible source for Mets news and analysis.
Ben Berkon currently works as an Assistant Producer at Ogilvy & Mather, a worldwide advertising agency. Berkon has worked on projects for IBM, Siemens, Coca-Cola/Fanta, TD Ameritrade, SAP, Citizens Bank, and many more.
Prior to Ogilvy & Mather, Berkon worked as the web site editor at Livestream.com, which is a live streaming, video platform on the Internet. As the web site editor, he updated the site’s blog, wrote the company newsletter and press releases for new partnerships, and maintained the featured videos on the site’s home page.
He has also worked in the footage and writing departments at the Onion News Network (ONN), the online video version of the Onion newspaper. Berkon contributed his own ideas at the weekly pitch meetings, and had an original idea published in a video segment.
In addition, Berkon currently blogs for the Sports and Comedy sections of HuffingtonPost.com, reigns as the Senior Editor of RisingApple.com (a mainstream New York Mets blog), and has free-lanced for Tonic.com, BrandChannel.com, NewYork.com, and various other Web sites. You can also find him writing for his own blogs SomethingYouShouldRead.com, and FoodForFodder.com.
Berkon is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he majored in History and minored in Creative Writing. He was born and raised in New York City, where he also presently lives.
