They are directing traffic in the parking lot of my office so that people can drive up and buy editions of today’s paper. Demand was so high that they printed up 40,000 additional copies and they’ll be offering up other promotional items in the days to come. I’ve not been in the newspaper business very long, so I’ve only lived through an era in which print is said to be dying a slow death. I’ve…
Click to embiggenate Many days, I like to snort a big fat line of newspaper nerdery and check out the day’s front pages at Newseum. And some days, I notice that The Tennessean‘s page is all wacky, like the file got corrupted or something during its trip from the Nashville office to the Newseum office in D.C. Today was no different, except that I found the Nashville paper’s design to be delightfully trippy and abstract…
:) UPDATE: Um, I was afraid this was going to happen. Note to Newseum: It would be super duper awesome if you’d create permalinks for the daily front page analysis. That way, when bloggers link to, say, the analysis of all the Obama nomination front pages, they don’t come back the next day and see that their link now goes to some malarky about hockey. So, anyway, my smiley was a brief and lazy way…
Holy hell, it got humid fast. I don’t care if “quickly” is preferred standard English grammar there or not. When you’re talking about humidity, you spit the words out and get it over with and then go back inside and take a bath in iced tea. Mmmm, iced tea. Anyway, I would like to sit and write and write about lots of different things, but my eyes are still dilated from the eye doctor this…
I’m about to pick a nit with the daily paper. I think I even beat Mediaverse to it! This is the big story on the M cover today, though it’s fairly buried in the online edition. It’s a Washington Post piece about online citizen journalists. It is curiously devoid of any reference to any Memphis citizen journalists. There are no breakout boxes with any links to local blogs that would qualify as being run by…
Like when I get to put Stephen Colbert’s face on the front page. I mean, I always like my job, but everyone who works any type of job knows that sometimes there are little nuggets of nothingness that might seem meaningless to everyone else but, with careful attention, can be polished and kept and treasured. And putting Stephen Colbert on the front page is something I can treasure. Cuz I’m a freak. So, yeah. Not…
That’s not so much a Barbra Streisand shout-out as it is an MST3K shoutout. Giant Spider Invasion, if I’m not mistaken. But I’m a bit rusty on my MST trivia, so leave a comment if I need to be corrected. My group meeting went pretty well. I pitched a couple of ideas that combine some other members’ ideas and I think we have a viable product. I also came up with a cool name, which…
I officially have an internship this summer. It’s in Birmingham at the Birmingham News. All I’ve got to do is set up a physical/drug screening in M’boro sometime soon so they can tell if I’ve got AIDS or am genetically predisposed to be a bad designer. Who knows. But they’re drawing blood, which makes me squicky. I’ve never had blood drawn before and I understand it’s a notably unpleasant experience. But I’m excited that I…
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