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And I’ve started to find myself going, God, these projects need editors. Editors are really valuable, and, the way things are going, undervalued. These are people who are good at process. They think about calendars, schedules, checklists, and get freaked out when schedules slip. Their jobs are to aggregate information, parse it, restructure it, and make sure it meets standards. They are basically QA for language and meaning.
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‘That last one is hauntingly brilliant,’ Bulwer-Lauter says. ‘No action, no characters. Just the stark simplicity of hour and day. How could anyone not keep reading?’
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Inspired by Heather’s cold Korean noodle soup from Sunday’s World Cup international brews and foods party, I hope to make this soon!
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Most of Long Beach Magazine’s staff will be leaving, including publisher Mark Stevens. Live Publishing, Inc.’s Susan Magnall will take over publishing duties for the merged Live Long Beach Magazine.
Granted, it’s been a while (four months) since I moved in such circles, but the merger of LiveLB and Long Beach Magazine (Live Publishing purchased the magazine, formerly owned by the Molinas) seems incredibly troubling.
As I understood it, that LiveLB was (is?) pay-to-play was (is?) an open secret. Long Beach Magazine never shied away from shamelessly covering advertisers, granted, but I didn’t hear any rumblings akin to LiveLB’s unabashed blurring between edit and ads over there. Plus, LBM employed some of the very same freelancers I was working with at The District. It was an enjoyable if not somewhat sleepy read. That this pay-to-play model could wind up in the arguably classier pages of LBM is of great concern.
My only hope is that the advertisers in Long Beach wise up to a fishy proposition when they hear it—that is, if they hear it. (Via The Press-Telegram, which is looking for an editor, by the way.)
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The most boring article about jousting you'll ever read.
Would like to see this through the eyes of Theo Douglas or Steve Lowery. I barely made it to page two.
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Somebody received money for writing this.
Meanwhile, in February, Facebook turned six years old. (LinkedIn, also mentioned, celebrated seven years of operations in May.)
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The Ixtoc was estimated to have leaked some 3.5 million barrels of oil after spewing into the Gulf for 10 months. Half of that, of course, is 1.75 million barrels.
Of course! Thanks, TPMMuckraker, for pointing that one out. (It’s an otherwise good piece about how a federal environment agency bungled predictions about what would happen to sea turtles in the event of a major oil spill.) -
She stopped sending out resumes and started pursuing her passion, her own consulting business — PMS Solutions. It stands for Po’ No Mo’.
Um. Typo?
