Sorry, now Melissa has what I had, and my reward for infecting her is looking after her while she coughs, hacks and sniffles the next week away. Tomorrow, though, for sure. Till then, read Howie’s new blog, or John Perry…
Month: December 2003
Just had an earthquake
Sitting here staring into my big terminal, which all the sudden starts weaving slightly back and forth. Word on TV is it was magnitude 6.5, based in south/central California. That’s strong enough to do major damage, but it sounds like…
Mucous? We got your mucous
Today, like yesterday and the day before and the day before that, I’m confronted with life’s eternal question: how can one head produce so much snot? I’m saving my strength so I can go in to work and infect all…
Tryouts on trial
A new thread at Testy Copy Editors starts out like this: A well-respected major daily has asked me come in for a weeklong copy editing tryout. My current experience at a wire service is helpful, but it’s a lot different…
Adventures at the Encyclopia of Television
Here’s an A-to-Z listing of essays about television shows. It must be OK, because it has this really swell page on Star Trek, though I did get a bit outraged at the “G” page: “Get Smart” but no “Gilligans Island?”…
Talking demographics
Ross Fadner at MediaDaily News reports on a study of the reading patterns and technology usage by people various racial categories. Surprisingly, the results show that high tech device ownership, while highly correlated with income, does not alone explain users…
10 great online data sources
Charles Bowen at Editor & Publisher describes his top 10 sites for working journalists. One entry: Gary Price’s List of Lists. Even before USA Today popularized statistical snapshots of America, we journalists have always been hungry for lists. Price has…
And the 25 grand goes to…
The Michael Kelly Award will recognize “a reporter or editor whose work exemplifies a quality that animated Michael Kelly’s own career: the fearless expression and pursuit of truth.” How long till the blogosphere gets its panties in a knot because…
Juicy dig at NPR
Dan Kennedy in the Boston Phoenix, writing about the “liberal radio” network in the works. On the other hand, liberals do not live by NPR alone. Central Air?s best bet is to establish itself as the second spot on the…
Paris Hilton for prez?
Well, she’s already getting better ratings than the one we’ve got now. Come to think of it, what harm could it do to send Dubya to a farm in Arkansas for a month?