Monthly Archives: January 2008

Blog is the new magazine (and a list of themes)

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 […]

Why is there no AP style check?

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 […]