Via Maud‘s blog: The Grand List of Overused Science Fiction Clich?s
Author: tom
The kind of blog a newspaper needs
Last Saturday I saw the San Francisco Giants defeat the Florida Marlins. I knew the score but I had to read the Merc’s account of the game in Sunday’s paper. I’m habitually going to the Internet Movie Database or Rottentomatoes.com…
What the hell were they thinking?
No need to link to any of the latest horrors from Iraq. Three clicks in any direction will find you all the fresh hell you require. I was against this war from the start but I’ve kept my opinions off…
A linguist in hell
… no, this has nothing to do with working on the copy desk; it’s an amusing retrofit of a “guy gets to choose between heaven and hell” joke you’ve probably already heard. It has linguists but no Chomsky (I just…
Coverage of the war…
…. depends on who’s side you’re on. A Lebanese editor’s commentary, linked at editorsweblog.org. In this time of war, both the US and Arab media mirror and pander to their public opinions, reflect and promote a rising tide of patriotic…
For all you biz/financial editors
Occurs to me there might be a story in the profusion of blogs about the stock market. I’m a bit of a dabbler, as you might’ve noticed after my reams of verbiage about the Google IPO. Last summer I started…
Found another one…
… Becky Bowers, a national desk copy editor at the St. Pete Times, is the keeper of La Pluma Roja (Spanish for The Red Pen), a mostly personal blog. Found the link over at blocletters.com, which reminds me: If you’re…
Requiem for a digicam
Side Salad laments the passing of his camera. A fun quote: Random, stupid and meaningless photography of everyday activities – and some that aren’t so ordinary – is my heroin. Suggestion for a parlor game: Fill in the blank —…
In praise of Christopher Byron
Byron’s the guy who wrote the juicy tell-all book about Martha Stewart. John Ettorre, keeper of the Working With Words blog, talks about Byron’s newest tome, an expose on Jack Welch of GE. Should be a barn-burner. I’ve somehow never…
PR guy has a swell blog
Steve Rubel, NYC PR dude, pointed me to Micro Persuasion, his blog about the intersection of news, publicity and blogging. Good stuff, especially judging from his Technorati profile.