Nicole Stockdale on essential Ralph Nader details Oregonian’s public editor on why they ran a picture of a mom grieving the death of her son killed in Iraq. File under: Public doesn’t want to know the cost of this war…
Month: February 2004
ACES seminar preview
Leonard Witt, a journalism educator at Kennesaw State University, wondered what I was talking about when I titled my ACES seminar “The Future Doesn’t Need Us: Weblogs and the End of Editing as We’ve Known It.” So he interviewed me…
DVD recommendation
“American Splendor.” Fun stuff. I reviewed it here.
Orkut: not a killer whale
But maybe a killer app. I sent out e-mails to a few dozen people inviting them to become part of my network at this site. Orkut is designed to help people of similar ages, interests and localities get together. It…
Wow, I have friends
Finally confirmed by the fact that J.D., co-host of the blogger dinner the other night, invited me to join Orkut, a “social networking” site now owned by Google. The site’s in beta now, which means at any given time it…
Like fish in a barrel
It’s that easy for the folks at Testy Copy Editors to dismiss missives posted at The Poynter Institute’s site. Choice zinger of the morning: Myth No. 6 about short writing: Poynter’s “senior scholars” know something about the subject. Speaking of…
Blogger meetup report
I spent several hours last night at a little French cafe in San Francisco with a bunch of bloggers and techie people. Met a guy named George Kelly, who, it turns out, works on the copy desk at the Contra…
Watching the watching watchers
Jay Rosen lobs some zingers at CJR’s Campaign Desk, which carries around a digital backpack full double-standards. The folks at the Desk have riled many bloggers with a nannylike insistence that bloggers who want to be respected must behave respectably.…
Why I’ll never work for the Times
Steve Outing quotes N.Y. Times editor Apcar on employee blogs. That’s one reason that The New York Times tightly controls personal blogs by its journalists. Of the companies I surveyed for this report, the Times was the most restrictive, by…
Fun Banned for Life fodder
An alert reader pointed out a bunch of linguistic hilarity emanating from the Langauge Blog — see Banned for Life details.