Archive for April 4th, 2007

How most of my meetings go »

Particularly the last 1:09. How hilarious is it when, after circling the set, DOR emerges from the side door, still ranting like a nutter?

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I’m looking forward to puberty »

This one comes by way of the Freakonomics Blog: Beard Team USA.
“Beard Team USA competes for the United States at the biennial World Beard and Moustache Championships. Our primary goal is to promote the worldwide appreciation of beards and moustaches. Other goals include making the United States competitive in the WBMC, promoting and publicizing the [...]

A question to which the answer is not clear »

>Can You Keep Your Smart Young People? (Readership Institute)
Not without a serious attitude adjustment.
“It’s not that they don’t love the job or the journalism, but the atmosphere in which it is practiced isn’t encouraging. Further, young people who express stronger intentions to leave also say:

Their newspapers lack a vision for the future, don’t communicate it [...]

Playing with code-free Google Maps »

As promised, I’ve been playing around with coding-free Google Maps by way of Google Spreadsheets and this handy spreadsheet-to-map wizard. Elsewhere on the maps-in-seconds front, I also have been whipping stuff up in Faneuil Media’s Atlas.
Granted, this was time that probably would have been better spent working through the actual Google Maps API. But, in [...]