William M. Hartnett

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Neighborhood of the week is Evergrene in Palm Beach Gardens.
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I’m with Howard Owens on this one:
“Lately, it seems like every day Romenesko has a link to a cranky old traditional journalist complaining about how newspapers are giving away their content online.
My question for Jim Romenesko: How come we never see the counter arguments highlighted in your blog?”
For real. Even reporters and editors who couldn’t [...]

Whoa. Check out this spicy feature at tampabay.com: Tampa Bay Hooters 2007 Swimsuit Pageant. Lots of traffic for this one, I’d guess. Riposte, Tampa Tribune? Cheerleader trading cards aren’t a bad start, but St. Pete’s coming right back at ya with lots of naughty Jenn Sterger action at tbt.com.

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>Collect-Me-Nots (NYT)
This is one hell of a lead: “The owner of Napoleon’s penis died last Thursday in Englewood, N.J.” There’s definitely not enough news about Napoleon’s shriveled old dong these days. I’m with the article’s author: It’s time to let the little fella’s wang chung rest in peace. (Anyone have any other penis euphemisms you’d [...]

>The Sun, union start negotiations (Baltimore Sun)
(Via Romenesko)
That’s not a loaded question, I’m honestly clueless when it comes to the issues involved in performance-based pay in a union newsroom. Rewarding productive or innovative journalists more than the just-getting-by crowd seems brilliant on its face, and it’s hardly a revolutionary compensatory concept. Let’s be honest, [...]

Recently overheard: One co-worker remarking to another that they “feel so sorry for these kids in their 20s. They just don’t have a future in this business.”
Sorry, but it’s the other way around, dinojournos: I feel sorry for you lot. You have no particular talents or skills that would get you hired at even the [...]

Jack Shafer’s column on the “special kind of crap that (newspaper reporters) can write up on Friday and bank for publication on Monday” reminds me of how poorly most papers handle their print stories on the web on weekends. Newspaper folks are finally realizing that the web is not merely another place to dump all [...]

The top posts and stats from my old personal blog, before the move over to the current site and platform.
TOP 10 POSTS

Playing with code-free Google Maps (April 4)
Which would you rather have? (April 9)
Google Maps + Google Spreadsheets (April 2)
Pet food and out-of-touch newspapers (March 31)
Young journalists in a print world (March 26)
An anecdote on [...]