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Tricks Of The Trade

Matthew 25 Comments

The Tricks Of The Trade article is now running at The Morning News.

A huge “thank you” to the hundreds (!!) of people who responded to my call for occupational secrets. Narrowing it down to 30 was tough, and I hope to post all the suggestions here in the near future. Again, sorry about the lack of names in the piece — since 75% of the ones I chose were submitted as “Anonymous” we decided to run them all unsigned. I also shortened some, and, since they were all submitted in different tenses (past, present, subjunctive) and persons (first-, second- and third-person), I reworded most for uniformity of voice — I hope no one is irritated by my heavy editorial hand. (Is it obvious how guilty I feel for altering your submissions?)

By the by, someone started a Metafilter thread on this topic, and more great tricks are being posted over there.

Again, thanks to everyone who wrote in. I have the best readers ever.

The Works

Matthew 12 Comments

Speaking of talking politics with John Moe …

I’ll be on The Works again this evening — in Seattle you can catch it from 8:00 – 9:00 on 94.9 KUOW, the online stream should be posted to the website shortly thereafter. Update: It’s live.

This week we discuss political blogs and their influence on mainstream media. Here are the blogs we mention by name:

Right Leaning

Middle Of The Road

Left Leaning

And here are some articles on the subject.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, though — there are plenty more. I also read The Washington Monthly, Wonkette, and the grandfather of all political blogs (even though it isn’t technically a blog itself), The Drudge Report.

If you live in Seattle and have a political blog (like my buddy Duane), feel free to mention it in the comments.

The Works: June

Matthew

Hey, remember this great post from last week?

I’ll be on The Works this evening, talking about three “celebrity blogs” that surfaced over the last few weeks.

Andy Kaufman

  • Andy Kaufman Returns: http://andykaufmanreturns.blogspot.com/
  • The Hoax exposed: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/hoaxes/kaufman.asp

    • Rance

  • Captain Hoof Blog: http://captainhoof.tripod.com/blog
  • An article about the mystery of Rance: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/weblog/comments/1047

    Washingtonienne

  • An archive of the original Washingtonienne blog: http://washingtoniennearchive.blogspot.com/
  • The days and nights of Washingtonienne: http://www.aolwatch.org/backup/washingtonienne.htm

    • Update: You can listen to the program online here.

    Uh, actually, the program airs tonight, June 15th.

    Also, it turns out that Peter Jackson’s next movie will not be entitled Police Academy 8: Hijinks In Hobbiton as I previously reported.

    The Works & Leah Peah

    Matthew 5 Comments

    I will be on the NPR program The Works this evening as John Moe’s Blog Correspondent. (Actually, I just made that title up for myself. Feel free to put “NPR Senior Blog Correspondent” on my business cards, John.) The show airs at 8:00 pm on 94.9, KUOW. Update: RealAudio feed now available on this page.

    If you heard the show and have come here looking for links to the topics we discussed, here you go:

    Tron Guy

    Comment Spam

    Viral Marketing

    Also, I was interviewed by Leah Peah