The Globe jumps the gun
For sale on Amazon.com: 19-0: The Historic Championship Season of New England's Unbeatable Patriots, by The Boston Globe.
Guessing the Giants might quibble with that title.
(via E&P)
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Daft patron? Don’t blame the bartender
Quote of the week from NPR's Bob Garfield: "Editors are like bartenders, who must serve up what's ordered provided they know when to say, 'Sorry, bub, you've had enough.'" This explains why I like bars: They must remind me of newsrooms.
Buffet: Print is dying
The Oracle of Omaha has spoken, and he minces no words in predicting the newspaper industry's declining fortunes. I hope newspaper owners will take this as yet another sign that they ought to be rapidly beefing up their websites (via BankStocks.com):
If you were looking at newspaper publishers as possible ...
Just posting for the sake of posting
OK, I'm tired of seeing that Katrina post at the top of my site. It's now five months later, and it seems life goes on. I've been back to New Orleans once, and I'll go again later this month. The city will come back, I'm sure. ...
Engulfed in sorrow
New Orleans, my hometown and one of the world's great cities, is drowning tonight as water fills it from the east and the west.
A massive recovery operation is under way. If you have the means, consider making a donation to the American Red Cross or another relief organization.
The city ...
And the unfortunate-choice-of-words award goes to…
Know what White House spokesman Trent Duffy said regarding those leaked photos of Saddam Hussein in his underwear?
"The president has been briefed on the situation ..." and he "wants to get to the bottom of it immediately." (emphasis added)
Seriously. You can't make up stuff this funny.
L.A. in a nutshell
Encyclopedia Britannica's entry on Los Angeles (subscription req'd.) contains this nugget: "...perhaps, no city in modern times has been so universally envied, imitated, ridiculed, and, because of what it may portend, feared."
Advocating obesity?
The heroically-named Center for Consumer Freedom is running full-page ads in major U.S. newspapers lambasting the conventional wisdom that obesity is unhealthy. If this were, in fact, a group of consumers tired of being rebuked about their dietary habits, one could certainly sympathize. But, according to this Reuters ...
‘I hereby resign…’
Arianna Huffington and her webmonkeys have put together an interesting collection of historical resignation speeches and letters. Read Mikhail Gorbachev's. Then read Ginger Spice's.
Knitting to help tsunami victims
My former LAT colleague, photojournalist and knitting enthusiast Sedda Kreabs, has come up with a novel way to aid in the ongoing tsunami relief effort. She and her knitting group are selling 'string scrubbies' (knitted dishcloths) and donating $10 from each sale to UNICEF. Knitters from across the ...
Flash in the pan?
I am an ex-Flash user. I uninstalled the Flash plug-in on my primary browser about a month ago, and I haven't looked back. Here's how it happened:
Back when Apple announced that its forthcoming iPad would lack Flash support, it sounded to me like a boneheaded move. If a device built ...
Continue the discussion here
Thanks to all who turned out today at UBC Robson Square for my workshop on online tools and techniques for journalists. I'm creating this post as a way to continue the discussion online. If you have questions or comments on the topics we discussed, please share them in the comments, ...
Checking in from Canada
In the four months since my last post — yes, I'm a terrible blogger — I've moved to Vancouver and started teaching at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. Among other things, I'm coordinating the school's Integrated Journalism course, required of all first-year students, and advising some ...
Posted here and there
The problem with writing for several outlets is that your stuff lacks a home on the Internet. But it's nothing that a little aggregation can't fix. In case you missed it, here's some of what I've been writing in the last few months:
Today at De Nieuwe Reporter, the Dutch online ...
What would you teach aspiring journalists about the internet?
It's officially official: I'm headed to Vancouver in January to spend a semester as the Canwest Global Visiting Professor at the University of British Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. I will be teaching online journalism as part of the school's integrated journalism course.
I'm looking forward to helping students think critically ...
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