I know some of you collect dictionaries for fun. Now I see somebody watching DVD’s about newspaper editing. Oughta be a way to charge that time to the boss, if nothing else.
Category: Editors’ blogs
Speaking of blogging and ballgames
Jeff of Side Salad and his pals went to a Tampa Bay Devil Rays game the other night. The crowd is appallingly sparse. Maybe they need the players to bring their families along or something.
Paul Wiggins to world:
It’s OK to start a sentence with “and.” The Bible says so.
Elegy for an empty apartment
Sid of winkie.org reflects on his swinging beltway bachelor pad. But when I looked at my empty bedroom before leaving the apartment for the last time I found myself tearing up a bit and feeling attached to the place (after…
Meet the new Blogger
Blogger.com has a new look and new features (no word on when they get new servers, which is what they’ve always needed most), which means that Copy Massage and Common sense journalism now feature calm forest green accents instead of…
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…
Macworld editors’ blog
Just found this one: a group blog by the editors of Macworld magazine. Fun highlight: wireless blogging at SBC Park … which is legal so long as you don’t mention the ballgame.
Houston Chron blog
So last month the editor of the Houston Chronicle sits in on my blogging talk at the ACES conference, and this month the Chron has a spanking new culture blog by Kyrie O’Connor, assistant managing editor for features. It’s called…