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  • Great site for copyeditors and grammar nerds
    Shared by Tommy Thomason 1 year 22 weeks ago

    Copyeditor-types, if you just can’t find someone to engage in a deep discussion of comma splices and arcane points of word usage, check out this weekly column online from The New York Times.  There’s enough there every week to delight you and bore the pants off anyone around you.  And if that still doesn’t satisfy, check out writing coach Roy Peter Clark’s fascinating new book, The Glamour of Grammar:  A Guide to the Magic and Mystery of Practical English. Fascinating book – you’ll agree when you read the Times’ interview with Roy at http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/20/stray-questions-for-roy-pe....
  • New online news venture begins in Texas
    Shared by Tommy Thomason 2 years 12 weeks ago

    One of the more interesting online news ventures in the nation is happening right here in Texas. It’s an online-only news site that was launched as a non-profit organization. It’s called the Texas Tribune, and it’s funded by readers who donate to keep alive what they consider a worthy cause. The editor is Evan Smith, former editor-in-chief of Texas Monthly. You can check out the new site at texastribune.org. And even if you don’t go there, look at what promises to be a regular feature on that site – using animation and pop-ups to insert everything from humor to fact-checking to background information into a speech, inserted during the speech itself. Currently, the “victim” is Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson. You can see the “stump interrupted” concept on the Texas Tribune site, or access it directly from YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUUw4NrKkE.
  • Many starting their day with the Web, not a newspaper
    Shared by Andrew Chavez 2 years 25 weeks ago

    A story in the NYT looks at how many are starting their day online, which could mean an even further decrease in the amount of time people have to read the paper in the morning. "It used to be you woke up, went to the bathroom, maybe brushed your teeth and picked up the newspaper," Naomi S. Baron, a professor at American University told the NYT. “But what we do first now has changed dramatically." The story uses Web traffic patterns and anecdotal accounts to discuss the phenomenon, which is likely already affecting how many consume their news.
  • 'Keep it short' rule for online video may be out
    Shared by Andrew Chavez 2 years 30 weeks ago

    A story in today's New York Times chronicles the rise of online video and shows some recent statistics that indicate users' attention spans are growing significantly. It may no longer be necessary to hit the less-than-90-seconds mark that not so long ago was the ideal length for an online video. “A few years ago, three minutes ‘watching’ your computer felt like a novelty; now, it’s as familiar as your television set,” said one online video producer.