Archive for March, 2007
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Awww, floppies!
I’m sitting in a Panera cafe, mooching off their free wifi, and at the next table is a mother explaining how punchcards used to run computers. Her pre-tween daughter is all saucer-eyed, and she thinks that punchcards sound “really cool!”
But it made me think about how people used to say – when talking about the [...]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Verbing
Okay, I just spotted an egregious new example of verbification on someone’s website. I’ve gotten used to “headquartered” and “authored,” but this is a new one:
Critical Mass is an interactive services firm that architects solutions to help the world’s leading companies increase revenues, reduce costs and deepen customer relationships.
Good God, people. We need to stop [...]
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Dispatch from the future (of news)!
Well, I’m in the Greensboro airport, on my way to a 3-day conference in Reston, Va. It’s called “Interactive Community News,” and it’s hosted by the American Press Institute.
What I’m hoping to get out of it is a bunch of concrete suggestions on how to get the people in our region more involved with our [...]
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
And so it begins.
I’ve been persuaded. The numerous articles advocating blogs for every journalist have persuaded me that it’s time to create my own.
But as the naturally suspicious daughter of two lawyers, I can come up with a long list of reasons why writing a blog is a terrible idea. Identity theft, being blacklisted by employers and shady [...]
