We love writers because they tell how we might see things

And they use pretty words to do it.
Take this, for example:
The whole point of the “soundbite“ used to be to mine one nugget of gold from a longer point, to boil it down to its essence. But we’ve boiled over as a culture, and there’s nothing left in the pot. We’re not just going for [...]

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Am I press?

Having been a journalist in a former life, I try to keep my nose in the game by subscribing to press release services. It’s an interesting way to see the news cycle and journalists’ judgement in action, since reportage from many media outlets can be recycled or augmented press releases.
For the science beat, that means [...]

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How much is a copy-editor worth?

With the arrival of open access, publishers are understandably worried they might be cut out of the process. To demonstrate their contribution, they’ve compared papers before and after copy-editing.

Edward Wates & Robert Campbell. Author’s version vs. publisher’s version: an analysis of the copy editing function. Learned Publishing (2007) 2:20.

Given that Robert Campbell is President and [...]

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CBC.ca redesign redux: Now (almost) with CBC Aboriginal!

Responding to my post, How to hack the new CBC website, Netvibes sent me an email indicating they’ve created a page full of CBC feed content. Subscribers can personalize it as they wish.

www.netvibes.com/cbc

You can do much the same thing with iGoogle.
Reaction to the redesign in the blogosphere has been tepid but illuminating. So far, [...]

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Hacking the new CBC website

This week CBC unveiled its newly designed website, which looks prettier but falls short of the mark of being CBC 2.0.
It’s easy to see the drivers for this redesign. The website is first and foremost a way to promote the broadcaster’s offline content (radio and TV), but they are also wrestling with the need to [...]

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