Archive for April 12th, 2007

The forecast calls for light blogging »

By William M. Hartnett on Apr 12, 2007 in sports | 0 Comments

Driving to Gainesville tomorrow for Saturday’s Orange and Blue game, UF’s spring football scrimmage, so blogging will be lighter than usual.
Or heavier. Depends on how proficient I turn out to be at thumbing out posts on my cell phone while speeding up the Turnpike. I also will be simultaneously eating Combos, guzzling Diet Mountain Dew, [...]

That’s the way we do things here »

By William M. Hartnett on Apr 12, 2007 in newspapers | 0 Comments

Following up on my thoughts about the urgent need to flatten newsroom management structure: The next time someone in your newsroom justifies an obviously inane decision or comically outdated policy by telling you “because that’s the way we do things here,” please throw them off the roof of your building.
Seriously. If the best your manager [...]