Saturday Stuff
Strap on your helmets, folks. Away we go.
Good Advice. I've never heard of this writer, but I nevertheless think she provides pretty good advice to new writers in this interview with The Guardian newspaper. Here's the key portion:
What advice would you give to new writers?
Get a job. I don't mean that in the sense of "give up writing," more that it's dangerous for a writer to cut themselves off from the world. You have to be out experiencing things, meeting people and living life, and not locked away in your garret staring at the wall. So, find a job that allows you a certain amount of time, and headspace, to write.
Craigslist Sends Cease & Desist to Weasley "Scraper." This piece in the January issue of Wired magazine is an interesting exploration of a problem that will increasingly crop up in the Web 2.0 world: what to do when your organization, as a primary provider of news and/or some other valuable web content, gets its content "scraped" by some outfit interested only in web traffic and the ad dollars that accompany it? I say good for Craigslist for going after the thief.
Good for you, Boston Globe. Here's a page that every serious newspaper should have as a citizens' guide to government documents and other information. Few, however do. This page isn't bad, either.
The Most Trusted Name in News? That's the running tagline (minus the question mark) that CNN has been using for some time, smartly changing the subject from idiot culture mainstay Fox News's higher ratings. So why does CNN's website bother with such ridiculous ephemera as this silly thing, presidential pong? Can anyone please explain that to me?
A Must-Watch Video. Finally, the excellent Cyberjournalist site offers up this interesting and informative video about how the New York Times' new company headquarters building has allowed the "paper" to more tightly integrate the print and online newsrooms. This is the future of news, folks, so do please check it out when you get a moment.
4 Comments:
First the pong thing. How dumb is that?
The argument the Lipstc creator makes about wanting to get praise from Craigslist, made me say huh? The way to go about that is to contact them with an idea or at least get your own site up and running and see if people come to you. I agree with you John, glad he was desisted .... or ceased!
Yes indeed, "huh," or worse. The poor guy figured he could just go and steal someone else's stuff, and figured since Craigslist mostly provides their service for free, he could take advantage of that and make money from it.
The warp in some peoples minds leaves me amazed at times lol. How do you find all this good stuff, reading your blog is like reading The Wash Post, seriously!
We have a much smaller staff than the Post, but we try hard. Thanks for the compliment. It'll keep us working all the harder to find interesting material.
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