“Prints the Chaff”was a blog for editors I created in the fall of 2003 and updated more than 800 times till the last post of any consequence appeared in May 2004. I removed the site when I stopped updating, but…
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Way overdue link paybacks
Haven’t done this since January so it’s time to point out all the good, friendly people who link to these friendly environs. PJ Net — Blog of the Public Journalism Network. Shake the Cat — “pardon me, but there’s a…
Are contractors mercenaries?
Some of the lefty blogs have started calling the “civilian contractors” in Iraq mercenaries. The idea being: they’re mostly ex-military and they’re in Iraq for the big bucks. Guns for hire, mainly. But my understanding of the term is that…
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…
Funny is as funny does
… and Mondo Winkie’s at it again.
Bunch of links on the California recall
At Journalism.org. An update: wouldn’t you know that there’d be actual news on the one day I linked to a site that hasn’t been updated in a week.
Mario Garcia on why newspapers change
And why a redesign was imposed on the good people of Miami. (Link via the Journalism Blog)Here’s the Herald’s guide to the redesign.
Tech at its finest
So I click on this link at Editor and Publisher about the Denver Post’s new web site (more like a newspaper, they say), then I click on the link for the actual site and it won’t load. And I wonder:…
What’s your newsroom look like?
CJR has a few pictures you can use for comparison.
Missiles and gasoline
Sure, it’s guy talk, but there’s an interesting thread about both at testycopyeditors.com