“We Look Forward To Your Participation In This Experiment In Democracy…”
Heroically undaunted by what happened the last time they tried it - in short, an achin’ world was introduced to Aaron Shakra, and never looked back - the ODE is doing this.
Best of luck to them - either it’s a marvellous smorgasbord of local journalism, or else the Spew section just got a whole lot easier to write. I’ll be tuning in regardless.
August 20th, 2005 at 11:37 am
Already we see that, absent their copy-editing wizards, they are worse at typing than we are . . .
Various attempts to spell “initial” include “intial” and, again, “intial.”
“What’s a blog”
“Steven R. Neuman
2005-2005
Online Editor”
“Blogs generally consists of short entries . . . ”
Yeah, so I’m nitpicking. What else can we do for now?
August 20th, 2005 at 9:30 pm
What’s even better is that they still totally don’t get it, as Jarvis would say. The “what’s a blog?” section reads just like it would from the NYT. I guess even the Compies are part of the Old-Media Jurassic Park.
August 22nd, 2005 at 8:19 am
On the bright side, they don’t have any granny porn links on their front page. You have to give them that.
August 22nd, 2005 at 3:43 pm
They don’t have any granny porn links … yet.
I’d say the best adjective to describe the ODE’s four blogs is BORING. Also, why doesn’t the ODE start small. Maybe, you know, they could have gone with ONE blog … just to see how things would go. I’ll still read it though.