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…
Author: tom
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.
If only racism were the only problem
Romenesko links to this post detailing subtle racism in a couple popular blogs. I don’t think John Lee, the writer, makes much of a case — a couple citations don’t exactly prove a trend — but he had a few…
Handy page of Google functions
Sheila Lennon linked to this page the other day. It amasses a whole bunch of Google functions in one location. Mega-handy.
Ban the spellcheck?
Nicole links to a story saying a news service wants to ban the use of spellcheck. Heck, we’ve still got editors who haven’t learned to use one.
Nitpicking point of the day
Actually posted last Thursday: The point is, if you want to be clear to most people, write about Saddam Hussein’s regime, not his regimen. That is, unless you’re dealing with his aerobics routine. From Copy Massage.
3-day weekend alert
We have this fine thing called a union contract that obliges some of us to stay home on Presidents Day, so blogging will be limited today. I do have one thing to pass along, though: Tim Porter sent some fresh…
For all you Scrabblehounds
Side Salad shares this wonderful link, which converts words to Scrabble scores: Pholph’s Scrabble GeneratorMy Scrabble? Score is: 30.What is your score? Get it here. Who’d a thunk chaff was such a great Scrabble word?