Tips on surviving as a journalist in web 2.0

Over at Media Shift Lisa Williams writes of the 10 things that journalists should know about surviving in what has become a high tech industry.

1. It is boom and bust-ie you get laid off when the economy is good, and you get laid off when the economy is bad.
2. Everyone gets recycled. Act accordingly
3. Bring your values to online companies; bring your skills back to news companies.
4. Forget about company loyalty
5. Time is on your side, but only if you take it.
6. Progress is about alternating breaking and fixing. Anything 100% working is 100% dead.
7. No manual? Write the fine manual
8. The web rewards narrow comprehensiveness - "everything about something."
9. On the web, the most successful companies don't build, they collapse. They take something that used to cost money and make it free. What costs money in your region that you can make free?
10. Yes, read the manual. The whole thing. Really.