An interesting thread at Testy Copy Editors debates the pluses and minuses. Speaking for the defense, Pam says: I arrange unpaid internships for my copy desk. I will agree that many shops misuse interns. But that doesn’t mean the concept…
A Google bombing
Snopes.com deconstructs one.
A tidy newsroom dustup
Cynthia Cotts describes a teapot tempest at Newsday over a botched attempt to promote the paper’s foreign editor. The story doesn’t matter much to non-New Yorkers, but I’m linking to it because it’s so reassuring to see Newsday’s newsroom is…
MS the pop-up killer
Mark Glaser says the Redmond Behemoth is about to get religion on killing popup ads. Microsoft is prepping a pop-up blocker in its next version of its dominant Internet Explorer browser, due out by next June, giving more readers than…
‘Lingerie Bowl’
Why don’t we call this what it really is: an open invitation for Osama to send his evil minions to America to blow up stuff: In the January “lingerie bowl,” two teams of models will play football in sports bras,…
Public education at work
Romenesko points to a Long Island high school whose bosses have taken a hard look at their kids’ low test scores and decided the thing to do was crack down on the school newspaper. If we want to get kids…