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Online News

I will never stop learning. I won’t just work on things that are assigned to me. I know there’s no such thing as a status quo. I will build our business sustainably through passionate and loyal customers. I will never pass up an opportunity to help out a colleague, and I’ll remember the days before I knew everything. I am more motivated by impact than money, and I know that Open Source is one of the most powerful ideas of our generation. I will communicate as much as possible, because it’s the oxygen of a distributed company. I am in a marathon, not a sprint, and no matter how far away the goal is, the only way to get there is by putting one foot in front of another every day. Given time, there is no problem that’s insurmountable.

I was reading Dan Gillmor but the creed comes from Matt Mullenweg.

I need a bio

This is silly. You’d think I’d have something prepared for whenever I need a bio, but I swear, I do not. I mean, I have different “me summaries” on every site. In a way, you kind of format your bio for the occasion, right? So, for example, for the journalism conference I was a part of last weekend, I had no idea what to write. And in fact, I wanted to crowdsource the bad boy. Here’s what some friends on Facebook came up with:

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Sites making me giggle lately

Facebook is not just a way to waste time, its a way to find more ways to waste time. Via Facebook, I’ve stumbled on a few genius sites that I would now like to share. You know, its like paying it forward.

First off, Criggo makes me giggle like nobody’s business. That’s where I lifted the image to the left. The blog posts the funniest tidbits from newspapers throughout the country (I presume) and sticks an ironic headline on it.

The other site I found when my buddy and former GNP refugee Mark put himself down as a fan of it — Overheard in the Newsroom. OMG, who knew such tiny tidbits of conversation could make you collapse in giggles? One of my favorite tidbits recently was this one:

“I wonder who actually says to themself, ‘You know, I really need to bedazzle my hoo-ha.’”

One features copy editor to another, about a bikini-wax story that said some spas will “add crystals” for additional cost.

Oh, there’s so many more. You must discover them for yourself.

Bad header info

Why oh why do we insist on creating pages with bad header information?

I don’t understand, journalists. I’ve seen this repeatedly on IBD. Without this information, the headlines don’t show up, no one knows what the link is about. C’mon!

/ rant

Post-journalism blogging

Blogging has come a long way. There was a time when it was the bastard child of writing — totally beneath the realm of novel writing, a step below harried dignity of newspaper journalism, not quite to the standards of freelance writing. After the muckraking and so-called yellow blogging years of Drudge Report-tidbits of salacious news (he’s not a blogger, yet everyone groups him into the group of bloggers), it seems that authors and journalists, and of course, freelance writers, find having a blog is as big a must-have as a personal website.

Now that journalism as we all know it seems to be on its deathbed (which I actually don’t believe), old school journalists are turning to blogging (finally) as if it could be their saving grace. Could you go from buy-out to being the boss of your own work via a blog? That’s the eternal question. The latest asker is a former Orlando Sentinel food writer. And this is what he found: