The Doc favors Duke in the Final Four. Safe to say that Duke does not favor him, considering his shenanigans during an alleged lecture in the mid-70s. In his ESPN column, HST quotes George Plimpton’s account of the point where things went too far (HST had just called the president of the university a...
Try to make it to the University of Florida’s all-day symposium on Converged Journalism. The 2-3 p.m. session on blogging and journalism stars WashPostie Jennifer Balderama, ProJo online editor Sheila Lennon, L.A. Observed blogger Kevin Roderick, and moderator J.D. Lasica of New Media Musings fame. An hour hardly seems like enough time to cover...
Reuters reports on a U.K. writer who is defending those apostrophes with her last breath.
Doug Clifton says he doesn’t really know why newsies haven’t done it in the past. It’s like one of those policies people forgot to write down. It seems to me that the Tyco case might warrant a suspension of the unwritten rule. An audience of millions might know that a particular juror owns Tyco...
CJR’s Campaign Desk has glommed onto the fact that AP’s reporting goes out into the world with the assumption that other editors at member publications will finish the editing. “Lots of papers run AP unedited” is a running joke at Testy Copy Editors, except we’re not really kidding about it.
Jeremy Verdusco, copy editor at the Ocala Star Banner, has created blocletters.com, where he plans to perform the usual blogging tasks. What’s unusual about Jeremy’s new blog is that he’s put a lot of work into polishing its look before going public. I met Jeremy at the ACES conference and we talked blogging a...
Iraq’s shaping up as a brutal testing ground for our revered notions of a marketplace of ideas. From my vantage point in suburban California, it’s outrageous that U.S. troops shut down an anti-U.S. newspaper in Baghdad. But there’s no denying that any number of factions are exploiting their freedoms to strengthen their ability to...
It’s not just because you can read one while sitting on the throne. In retrospect, I question whether I ever truly mastered the change from print to pixel. Sure, I can navigate a Web page with the best of them, and come away with the salient facts. But I’m now convinced that the same...
Infomaniac links to this handy roundup. (Note to Mr. Bush: it’s not nu-cu-lar.)
Meet Wonkette
Media Bistro has an interview. (Posted for Nicole Stockdale, the foremost Wonkette-ophile.)
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