A link I overlooked last week: a Washington Post story about devices that allow drivers to change red lights to green. Link via Kuro5hin.
Month: November 2003
Nice head
On stand, she’s Rosie the Riveting
Damn those subheads
We put ’em in there to break up long columns of gray type, but at least one writer is sick them gunking up his copy. (Link via Romenesko)
Job openings of note
Orange County Register: news copy editor Olympian (Washington state): Online news editor Cincinnati Enquirer: Weekend editor Prevention magazine: Copy chief (scroll down a few pages to find it) Teaching Tolerance project: Managing editor
Infomaniac
Is back from vacation. She posted a very fun link to a video of cat antics. (Note: the link is a WMV file which means you’ll have no trouble opening it in Windows but you Mac users may have to…
Low culture
A cool site I found today that writes stuff like this: Remember that thick-necked, mouth-breathing jock who stuffed you in your locker every day in high school? Well, he’s grown up to become the Secretary of Defense.
Scooping ourselves
Newspapers are increasingly scooping themselves by sharing stories with other newspapers around the world and with television and Internet sites in the United States.
Blogging election night
The paper in Oswego used a blog to keep folks apprised of the vote counts as they were tallied. (Link via the Weblog Blog).
Errant, but funny
Another of those Lenoesque lists of headline hilarity. Most you’ve seen before, I’m sure. Plane Too Close to Ground, Crash Probe Told Miners Refuse to Work after Death Safety Experts Say School Bus Passengers Should Be Belted Is There a…
Dublin: Media mecca
After I caught the bug for RSS syndication of my site, I found this cool RSS site called LocalFeeds that allows you to track down all the sites within a specific geographic area. This site has accidentally made a New…