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Limerick: Date My Friend Bill
Bill is looking for an online date.
Click profile, compose message, then wait.
Some girls try to resist
but they won’t know what they’ve missed
By not taking a chance on fate.
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Limerick: I Shared My Limericks with my Boyfriend
My boyfriend doesn’t get limericks.
“Where’s the nuance, the problem, the fix?”
He wants better insight
in these words that I write.
Can poetry cause marital conflict?
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Yahoo Snaps Up Associated Content for $90 Million... →
newsweek:
mikehudack:
soupsoup:
Yahoo, in a clear attempt to get deep into the social content space and better compete with both AOL and Demand Media, announced the acquisition of Associated Content.
Sources close to the situation said the price was $90 million in cash, which is a solid outcome for Associated Content, which was competing in a very crowded space.
Are you kidding? $90...
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“Print companies that I’m aware of, Time Inc, Conde Nast, Washington Post,...”
– Jim Gaines, former editor of Time magazine and founder of StoryRiver Media.
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Limerick: Getting Ready for Work
My shirt’s wrinkled, my shoes: untied.
I rush as I throw more clothes aside.
But I’ll be late to work
as a hotel desk clerk
If it takes this much time to decide.
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Page Design Discussion - Daytona Elements?
The 2010 Daytona 500 was an interesting race, even if you’re not normally a NASCAR fan. From the debut of Danica Patrick to the constant start and stops on the field, even newspapers that don’t normally play sports big did a bigger-than-average review of the race.
Our challenge was to cover the Daytona 500 race using at least three ASF (or alternative story form) elements.
First, the...
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Should the Media Cover Elena Kagan's Sexual...
On Thursday, I participated in an online chat hosted by the Poynter Institute that discussed whether the media should be covering Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s sexual orientation. You’ll have to scroll down for the chat but the article is well worth reading, as well.
The discussion was lively and interesting. It seemed that most journalists participating in the chat felt...
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Page Design Discussions - Text Only?
What do you do when you’ve got a big story but you don’t have any color or even photos to use to illustrate it. This was a challenge given to me by Orlando Sentinel Page Designer Nick Masuda.
First, the page.
(Now, conversion from the InDesign format to a .jpg has messed with the page a little — particularly, the shaded spots were originally a 10 percent gray and not a dark...
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Limerick: My Cat Just Sneezed
There’s no sound funnier than a sneeze
If you don’t laugh, you’re just hard to please.
But my cat doesn’t agree
He blames my potpourri
And destroyed it with high expertise.
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Ethics Thoughts on SeaWord Trainer's Death and...
I know this event hasn’t been in the news for a while, but hearing about a friend’s trip to SeaWorld reminded me of the ethics controversy immediately after Dawn Brancheau was killed at SeaWorld when killer whale Tilikum grabbed her by the hair and pulled her underneath the water. News agencies were fighting for the right to obtain the videotapes of the incident (and then, as an...
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An Introduction to my Limericks
1.
I’m writing one limerick each day
Using this medium to convey
My professional works
Can still have some quirks
And journalism can involve word play.
I love that I can still do a Google search and find several references to this article (and headline) I wrote back in college. Front page of the Central Florida Future on Sept. 8, 2004.