Month: October 2003

‘The county is on fire’

Ken Stone, online editor for SignOn San Diego, has put in more than 16 hours of overtime and given up a couple vacation days to help the Web site cover the big fires. Here’s the e-mail he sent to friends…

Please, I wanna be a Public Editor too!

How’s this for the job of a lifetime? Mr. Okrent’s columns will appear primarily in the Week in Review section on Sundays, beginning in early December, though not necessarily every week. Mr. Keller said he and the newspaper’s other senior…

Clumsy writing …

… makes us look like we’ve got an agenda. To wit: The bombings occurred just hours after three other American soldiers were killed in overnight attacks in and around the capital, bringing to 112 the total number of U.S. military…

Another concert review

I went to Neil Young’s annual benefit concert for the Bridge School, which does good deeds for disabled kids. Check it out if you’re easily amused.

The Doc’s prescription

I’ve heard the name Doc Searls bandied about on a lot of people’s blogs, so I stopped by his place the other day. Turns out he a senior editor at Linux Journal, so his blog belongs on the editors’ list.…

Life as The Man

It dawned on me yesterday as I walked into the office that despite my indie pretensions, I’m just a mouthpiece for The Man. That is The Establishment — something vitally important to society because it gives somebody something to be…

‘This Parrot, it’s Dead!’

It’s about time I got around to adding The Dead Parrot Society to my blogroll — and not just because I got a nice atta-boy email yesterday from Parrot co-conspirator Ryan Pitts, a newsie at the Spokesman Review of Spokane,…