Marketese at its finest:
A marketing form for a promo CD included the standards: Name, Address, Gender … AND this beauty. Can I get a collective groan, please?
October 31st, 2005
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Things I Find
October 2005
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Things I Find
Recipe! Beef Stew for the Ages
i.e. this makes a lot. Fall is here and it has us food fanatics dreaming. Mulled cider, ginger-spiced butternut squash puree, toasted pumpkin risotto … oh yes, we dream. But when it comes down to it, this young lady has no interest in making any of the above delicacies. It’s cold, I’m lonely, and I want [...]
October 30th, 2005
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Food
How to build a better blogger
or, how to turn a mild mannered reporter into a blogaholic In my role as Web Editor for CL, I’ve set up quite a few blogs for our journalists interested in the medium. I’m certainly no expert - really, can anyone claim to be? - but I’ve learned a few things in my two years of [...]
October 8th, 2005
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Journalism & the Media
RAW PIZZA: It’s a bird - it’s a plane - it’s a giant advertisement!
And, underneath, it’s actually a pizza from Atlanta’s famed Savage Pizza. It’s a little cheesy, thought some in the office, but it certainly got people’s attention. “I pay for my pizza,” quoth one coworker. “I don’t want advertising on it.” “Would you be OK with it if they gave you a dollar off your pizza?” [...]
October 6th, 2005
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Food + Images
Mikey! DJ Jester, the Filipino Fist in the ATL
What a lovely surprise it was to hear from San Antonio compatriot G. Michael Pendon, aka DJ Jester, aka the Filipino Fist, aka Mikey. Mikey and I worked together at the San Antonio paper … and, through a twist of fate, hadn’t seen each other in two years. If you’ve never checked out this DJ [...]
October 5th, 2005
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About Me + Images
WaPo hosts secret internal blog. No, you can’t read it. Stop asking.
Kudos to WaPo for hosting an internal blog to let its staffers talk turkey - er, the future of the newspaper - and a second plate of kudos for allowing media critic Howard Kurtz to cover it in this column. But how annoying is an article about a secret blog that the readers can’t peruse? What [...]
October 4th, 2005
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Journalism & the Media
