February 2010
23 posts
SitBy.Us: ShortURLs & Total Counts →
Here’s the short version, from Twitter:
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The longer version is this: We realized that we could help presenters (and hosts) raise awareness of their panels (and events) by providing easy-to-share shortURLS for their panels and a total count of everyone who’d marked their interest in their…
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NYPL Digital Gallery: American Editors trading... →
Once, journalists merited trading cards. Can you imagine?
“Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is...”
– Douglas Adams (via nickdouglas)
I guess this is the year everything changes for me.
The Modern Generations →
We had a brief debate about who was Generation X, Generation Y and Millennial Generation. There seem to be varying starting points and cut-offs for each (Gen-X being the closest to…
Overheard in the Newsroom →
Not surprisingly, heavy on gallows humor.
On Language - Crash Blossoms →
Those wonderful headlines with misleading syntax? They now have a name.
“Among ad-supported cable nets, the news nets (along with older-skewing Hallmark...”
– Variety: TV viewers’ average age hits 50
This doesn’t surprise me. After my grandfather passed away, Fox News Channel became my 80-something-year-old grandmother’s daytime companion. And because she’s of a generation that believes anything said by a newsperson on TV is the... 