Just like the syrup

May 12

Damn, this kid is awesome. #rubsomedirtonit #letsplay

Nov 24

Economic indicator? The yellow bag is full of Black Friday circulars; twice as big as the white newspaper bag

Nov 16

Convenient Wrapper

“I think people think of Barnes & Noble as a convenient wrapper around a Starbucks.”
— Dan Benjamin’s apt description in a discussion about the Kindle Fire vs. the B&N Nook on the 5by5 podcast “Build & Analyze”

Sep 2

Settling in for my last night as A section night editor. (photo by Emi Kolawole)

Aug 24

How has Steve Jobs changed my life? Let me count the ways.

Clockwise, from middle left:

first PC I ever used;
first PC I ever coded upon;
the PC that digitized my videos of my kids being born;
my most favorite computer ever;
all my music, suddenly fitting in my pocket;
the Internet, suddenly fitting in my pocket.

Aug 9

“One of [the] things Twitter has made clear is just how much journalists think of other journalists as their audience.”

Greg Marx, “Would a Populist Washington Post Be Popular?”

Jul 28

“Tears are falling on Macbook Pros and Pier 1 throw pillows all across America.” (h/t @lheron)

Authorship markup

We know that great content comes from great authors, and we’re looking closely at ways this markup could help us highlight authors and rank search results.

— Othar Hansson for Google’s Webmaster Central blog, “Authorship markup and web search”

An intriguing move by Google. This little bit of extra coding sounds like it would dramatically boost journalists’ personal brand (paging Gene Weingarten). H/t to @SteveRubel.

Jul 25

Journalists, care to comment?

“[T]he real reason to participate in any marketing activity, including Facebook and others, is to generate a customer. That point of view gets overlooked in favor of the “see how many fans you can get” social media game. … [T]urning followers into leads and converting those leads into profitable business is the real reason to spend time and money in any tactic.”

— John Jantsch, The Only Reason to Participate in Social Media

This is all Pandora’s fault: It brought up the alternate (“Tim”) version of my favorite Replacements song, which inspired me to search for the backstory behind that (better) track. That brought up this, which got me looking for a certain “Saturday Night Live” performance. It all ended here, with the Mats in their full sloppy, early-’80s glory. Can’t hardly wait.