Tag Archives: fun

Who’s Missing From This Food Map? 0

Ever wonder what the most popular links are within your circle of friends and trusted sources?
Web Trend Map, a new interactive site, let’s you do that. Created by designer Craig Mod and information architect iA Inc., the website maps selected Twitter users and displays the trending links among those users off to the side.
The site [...]

Journalists: Share What’s New With You 0

One of the most popular posts of 2008 was “What Comes After a Career at a Newspaper?” If you’ve found a new role or started a new business after taking a buyout or being laid off last year, leave a comment to let people know what you’re up to. We’ll also add you to the [...]

The Joe Biden-Sarah Palin Debate as a Wordle Cloud 2

One for Fun: Tell Me a Story Any Way You Can 0

One of the brilliant things about the Web is that a story can be told many different ways. Earlier this year, British publisher Penguin Group asked six authors to each create an online homage to a notable work of literature. Each tale used a different aspect of Web storytelling as the medium. The result was [...]

One for Fun: In Prase Of Copyeditors 0

Pulitzer prize-winner Gene Weingarten wrote a funny ode to copy editors in his Sunday column for the Washington Post.
From start to finish, it’s an entertaining frolic that defends the craft. Editors and management should read it and think twice about slashing entire copy desks when layoff time comes around.
Weingarten won acclaim for his 2007 profile [...]

One for Fun: Predict Who Wins the White House 0

While election coverage may be on hiatus, speculation on who will be our next president is about to run wild.
Sean Connelley of the Los Angeles Times created an interactive, embeddable map that lets you test different electoral vote scenarios.
Think Wisconsin will go to McCain? Click and the state turns red. Believe the die-hard Democrats and [...]

Is This What Cable News Has Been Reduced To? 0

A friend who loves news but isn’t in the news business forwarded this to me. It’s a pretty dead-on, yet sad commentary on the state of cable news.

Who Wants to be the Next Media Mogul? 0

(Photo by TheMacDiva/Flickr)

The Yahoo takeover fund.

Hed Games: We Have a Winner 0

Ricochet’s hed-to-hed competition went neck and neck, with a near photo-finish between two entrants. In the end, the headlines by Jenny Cromie took the tape.
Contest judge Matthew Crowley had some funny, instructive advice in his assessment:
All of Jenny’s were complete and accurate and summarized their stories.
The Marriott headline used all of those p’s to sonic [...]

ACES Winner to Judge Hed to Hed Competition 0

Las Vegas Review-Journal copy editor Matthew Crowley has graciously agreed to judge Ricochet’s headline writing competition.
Crowley won the American Copy Editors Society “Best Headlines of the Year” contest in the newspapers with circulations between 100,001 and 250,000 category.
Judges gave his work special citation, saying:
In a time when newspapers need more than ever to shake off [...]