And why the editors who were supposed to be covering his butt didn’t. And other stuff.
Category: Blogging
‘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,…
Where have all the young men gone?
Wherever they are, they’re not watching enough TV, the networks says. I have no idea where they’re all going — has a new chain of strip clubs opened? — but because I can blog, I can speculate: must be they’re…
The need for feed
Over the weekend I figured out how to do RSS feeds. If you look way down on the right side of this blog you’ll see a link that says “Syndicate this site (XML).” If you click on it, it tries…
A tale of two Timesmen
…Well, former Timesmen. Seems both the New York Times news execs who stepped aside to make the Jayson hooha go away had speaking gigs in the past couple days. Gerald Boyd, speaking to a bunch of newspaper editors, says something…
Linkback to BuzzMachine
Blogger and media executive Jeff Jarvis linked to Prints the chaff yesterday, noting that I had been making a nuisance of myself in the comments areas of certain media blogs. This sparked an interesting debate over the use and non-use…
Chi Trib stunned to learn bloggers can write
This one (reg. required) was linked on Romenesko … it’s about how some people are blogging their way into mainstream media jobs. (Hint: dish on celebrities and you’ll attract a lot more eyeballs than, say, dishing on news of interest…
My code of conduct
It’s clear we need some guidelines for journalists who blog. Each of us dreads the day we get dragged into the boss’s office and given the choice between our jobs and our blogs. It hasn’t happened to me yet, but…
Be a better blogger
A fine link I found at the Miami Herald blog written by the Liz Donovan of Infomaniac fame.
Off for the weekend
I’ve had enough excitement for one week, I’ll be back Monday.