The text on this Chili’s ad reads: Forget about your tiny cubicle Quit thinking about the word “assistant” in your title Don’t worry that your boss doesn’t know your name *** Depressed by your corporate job? Your cubicle? Your lowly status in life is reflected by your lowly status at work. You shop for business clothes at discount stores [...]
June 21st, 2006
Read...Music editor Heather Kuldell sent around this mystery billboard to CL staffers this morning. What’s the deal? According to this blog thread, the billboards are part of a Cartoon Network marketing strategy, and they’ve been appearing all over the South. This billboard appears on North Avenue and Spring. Update: After consulting a CN source, Heather reports - [...]
June 20th, 2006
Read...How awesome is Little Rock, Arkansas? After an afternoon listening to none other than former President Bill Clinton, I took off for an evening jaunt with my new pals from the Memphis Flyer and the Mountain XPress in Asheville, NC. ((Yeah, I’ll get around to blogging Clinton. This is more fun.)) Jon Elliston of the XPress, and [...]
June 19th, 2006
Read...Susan West and Michael Gold, Friday, June 16, 2006 at the Peabody Hotel, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2006 AAN Annual Convention (Association of Alternative Newsweeklies) Unlike most consultants paid to give presentations at conferences, WestGoldEditorial does not suck. Nope - they don’t regale us with irrelevant or outdated examples drawn from daily newspaper websites, or make [...]
June 19th, 2006
Read...Susan West and Michael Gold, westgoldeditorial.com, Friday, June 16, 2006 at the Peabody Hotel, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2006 AAN Annual Convention (Association of Alternative Newsweeklies) Here’s some notes. Long, text heavy notes. They haven’t been edited or fact checked, so if you see something I goofed on, lemme know! Goof #8: Organize and simplify information Don’t have [...]
June 17th, 2006
Read...Session: Flash for Print Journalists Presenter: R. Scott Horner, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Friday, June 16, 2006 at the Peabody Hotel, Little Rock, Arkansas, 2006 AAN Annual Convention (Association of Alternative Newsweeklies) Here are my notes, kids. Sorry that this is so text heavy! Critical Points Pair up a reporter/photographer to create a Flash project Keep your story under 2 [...]
June 16th, 2006
Read...I’m in Little Rock, Arkansas for the 2006 AAN (Association of Alternative Newsweeklies) convention. I’ll be blogging my notes from the session, but before I do that, I’ll share with you my pictures of Little Rock. Which is, indeed, Little. Here’s my quest for Mexican food with my new pal. Dogs being walked Yeah, you knew [...]
June 16th, 2006
Read...So, Little Rock thinks it has good BBQ. And truth be told, it ain’t horrible. But when the locals are tellling you that it is great, and all you’re tasting is some pretty average q - well, a girl like me misses Texas. What should I say? Generic white bread bun? Ubersweet baked beans? Nondescript pulled [...]
June 15th, 2006
Read...Source (as far as I can tell): OneGoodMove.org Take three things I’m not too fond of: U2, Bush, and choppy video editing, and mix it with a synthpop beat, and you’ve got the above video. A crappy pop song becomes relevant when mixed with imagery - a few days using iMovie, and a bit of luck, and [...]
June 13th, 2006
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