Did two nice seminars today … first one on ethics with role playing and debating right/wrong ways to do things. Crowd was more animated and funny that I would’ve expected for a gang of copy editors. It’s nice to be…
Whew, it’s over
OK, it’s over and I survived. No tomatoes were hurled. Jeremy Verdusco of the Ocala Star Banner is standing next to me and I’m demonstrating how Movable Type, my blogging platform, works.
About sunrise
Yes, I did go to bed. Had wonderful dinner/drinks last night with Merrill Perlman of New York Times News Service and a couple other folks whose names have escaped me. Warning if you come to Houston: the meals are good,…
I’m here
In Houston, at the Hyatt, I’ve already met two of my heroes, John McIntyre (ACES prez), and Merrill Perlman of the New York Times. I’ll be in the lobby quaffing absurdly expensive drinks. ($6.50 for a gin and tonic? Geeze,…
See you in Houston
This is my last post before arriving in Houston at the ACES conference. I’m staying at the Hyatt; should arrive about 3:30 p.m. I have no plans for dinner yet so if you want to get together, send me an…
A nod to the shooters
“I intensely dislike seeing any of our pictures manipulated in any way.” David Viggers, Reuters? photo editor From an editorsweblog post on UK newspapers that cropped body parts out of their pictures of the Madrid bombings. Yeah, it’s another self-important…