Author: tom

Knight Ridder’s campaign blog

The folks on the campaign trail are filing dispatches at krtrail.blogspot.com. I posted the whole URL to highlight a pet peeve of mine: that the corporation I work for has professional journalists representing our company hosting blogs at Blogspot. There…

More on Jen’s dancing career

Not sure why but I’m fascinated with Jen of Nonsense Verse’s dancing career … maybe it’s because ballet is so unlike copy editing; maybe not the exact opposite but maybe 178 degrees. She has a new post on getting back…

Commas in headlines

Nicole muses on the right and wrong reasons to put commas in headlines. For those of you who don’t write heads for a living: a comma implies “and”: Scores of angry ducks, geese infest City Hall Nicole’s point is that…

Homelessness revisited

A few months back I posted links to the San Francisco Chronicle’s series on homelessness. This morning somebody posted a rambling-but-moving reply to that post in the comments area. Excerpts: I had been searching for my old very good friend…

Capital appreciation

Nicole has had a bunch of swell posts at her blog over the past few days.

Look, lies are lies

… and we shouldn’t be publishing them. OK, so I am steamed that I looked away from my TV screen just long enough to miss the Janet Jackson Boob Incident, but my indignation gets even worse when I read the…

SB blogging

I’ll be posting some updates over at my personal page, unless the game’s so damn good that I can’t tear myself away.

New ACES conference sked posted

Now I’m up against four other spearkers on the first morning. So far I have the longest title: “The Future Doesn’t Need Us: Web Logs and the End of Editing as We’ve Known it.” See, blogging causes a tendency to…

OK, now I’ve officially had it …

… with “kinder, gentler.” Can we please toss this one out of the airlock, please? The vacuum of space would do it some good. The tipping-point passage: Toner notes that the candidates as a whole are appealing “to a far…