Back in the Stone Age, “blog” was the word of the year and old media was scrambling to add any semblance of an online entity. Then, many believed that blogs would eventually take the place of most sections of the newspaper, just as Craigslist replaced classifieds.
However, if the latest trend in Wordpress templates is any [...]
Monthly Archives: January 2008
Blog is the new magazine (and a list of themes)
1/31/2008 – 8:27 pm
Why is there no AP style check?
1/24/2008 – 10:41 pm
We have spell check and grammer check, but has anyone ever built an automatic AP style check? I’m aware there are judgment calls copyeditors make that wouldn’t be able to be done by any computer. But wouldn’t it speed up the flow of copy if things like capitalization, punctuation, and names of current newsmakers were [...]
Our disgruntled young journalists
1/17/2008 – 1:37 am
With many predictions swirling around for what 2008 will hold, allow me to continue the gimmick.
I believe that 2008 will be the beginning of a movement in journalism where graduates will opt to carve their own path rather than be another layoff at a slow adopting newspaper or magazine.
What do I mean by “carve their [...]
News and housekeeping
1/14/2008 – 2:47 am
Just a few items:
I know the email subscription link is currently not working, I have the right code in there, so its likely a Feedburner problem
I revamped my Portfolio page, be sure to take a look
Be sure to check out Mr. Sholin’s ReportingOn.com. Hopefully I can take advantage of this when I resume writing this [...]
4 things that confuse me about LinkedIn
1/8/2008 – 3:00 pm
A few months ago I signed up for LinkedIn.com. If you are unfamiliar with the site it is a social network aiming at professionals with job history and recommendations from peers being the main focus of the profile page. I mostly let my profile squander into irrelevance as I filed LinkedIn under the “new [...]