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Meta Musings On The Blogger-Friendly Mets Front Office
The Mets' new blogger-friendly approach has become a discussion topic during the offseason lull. Some have raised questions about the new policy on other blogs and in the Amazin' Avenue comments, most entertainingly summarized by I.M. Forme at his blogspaceplace: I may now be the only one even...
Meeting of the Minds
It's been said (often by myself) that one of the great things about blogging, and conversely the flat tire slowing the newspaper's stock car, is the speed of the medium. I mean how can you compete with a turnaround as short as one week? You can't. I'd apologize or offer an excuse -- this past week...
Unnamed Scouts Confirm Our Critical Thinking, Gonzales Reports
Yesterday, I got an email from a young female student at DePaul who wanted to conduct some type of interview with me for an "online journalism" class (as if anything we do here is journalism). I may have inadvertently scared her away thanks to my sarcastic response about her trying to...
I got nothin'
I don't feel like I have anything to say tonight, but I thought I should throw up a new thread. Here are some thoughts from Roger Ebert on the wonders of blogging. I started this blog in May, and it has enriched my life. I have been astonished by the high quality of the comments received. I have...
Most Editors Are Failed Writers, But So Are Most Writers
With a hat tip to LoHud. Murray Chass has a blog. But it's not a blog, it's an online column, because Mr. Chass (recently retired from the NYTimes) is a columnist, not a blogger. Mr. Chass is on the record saying he hates bloggers, hates statistics besides batting average and ERA, and hates the...
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