Archive for September, 2007

Sales slide, but prices stay up in many cities »

Just a little city-level real estate stats package through the first half of 2007. It’s ugly out there in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties, people.
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Paper View Monday: Seattle Post-Intelligencer »

At the suggestion of Dan Day, managing editor of The Modesto Bee, which was last week’s featured newspaper building, we jet off to Seattle to check out the Post-Intelligencer’s awesome waterfront location and rotating globe. (Does it really rotate, or is it more like those old rotating bucket signs outside Kentucky Fried Chicken that seemed [...]

Picture of a household item, Vol. 8 »

I kill orchids. I try to keep them alive, I really do, and I’m not proud of my appalling record of orchid murder. But my green thumb is black, I’m afraid. Black as night.

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Random picture of my cat, Vol. 31 »

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Florida Home 30: 2007-09-22 »

Feature story on Florida’s governor’s mansion. Neighborhood of the week is Timbercreek in Boca Raton.
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Job opening: Get your sports copy editing on in West Palm Beach »

Still more hiring at The Palm Beach Post. We have an opening for a sports copy editor down here in South Florida. Here’s the listing at JournalismJobs.com:
We want a sports copy editor eager to work with writers to improve stories and who can write graceful and direct display type. We value energetic editors who can [...]

Shamelessly promoting the work of colleagues »

Colleague Will isn’t really the type to get up to a whole lot of shameless self-promotion, like some of the insufferable newspaper types I know. Fair enough, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to go ahead and do the promoting for him and the some two dozen other folks responsible for Diabetes: The Invisible [...]

A headline too bizarre not to share »

> Samurai robber gets 20 years (Palm Beach Post)
I don’t know what else to say about this, except to reiterate that Florida’s Treasure Coast is a hotbed of weird crime news. Who would hold up a gas station while wielding a samurai sword as a weapon, then swap hats with the clerk he robbed and [...]

Paper View Monday: The Modesto Bee »

The Modesto Bee. Virtual Earth/Live Maps. Click the picture to map-fiddle.

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Picture of a household item, Vol. 7 »

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