Author: tom

Meet Jack, the pagination guy

Jack Rosenzweig works for a company called Baseview, which builds pagination systems for small newspapers. Jack started out as a copy editor in New Jersey, and did that for a couple years before getting into pagination 11 years ago. At…

Get Farked

I keep forgetting to link/bookmark Fark.com, which is always cool and frequently hilarious, especially the comments area.

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Lets you scan the hottest news and blog posts.

On growing up, and down

Dan Savage, sex columnist and editor of The Stranger in Seattle, has some words for daily newspaper people that I wholeheartedly agree with. You know, there’s some paper’s that take the fucks out of “Savage Love.” People will say they…

ABC News issues instructions …

… on fairness in news coverage. Though it’s heresy to admit that TV newsies have anything to offer us, the tips (from the STUMP blog) are useful. A couple zingers: 2. Note when there is good economic news (since we…

A media mauling in action

Some guy does what any of us would do in his shoes, and the next thing you know he’s Public Enemy No. 1. I realize in this day and age that the Cubs fan in question would’ve been named by…

John Markoff on the future

He’s the tech writer for the New York Times. From an interview with him at Online Journalism Review: JM: I read Bill Joy’s Wired piece with great, great despair two or three years ago. It’s not clear to me that…