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Archive: March, 2006

Spring Break

POSTED: Monday, March 27, 2006, 8:16 AM

Filed Under: Family Business

Spring Break.

Which means finally finish raking. Read some (bound) fiction for a change.

Back next week.

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Blue Sky On a Gray Day

POSTED: Saturday, March 25, 2006, 5:55 PM

Filed Under: Media

The question was, Who are you and why are you here? Not just the facts, but the emotions - how do you feel about the assault on news right now?

Feel? I told a little story today. Every morning I walk to the end of the driveway, and pick up a newspaper or three. By the time I make it back inside my sons are already talking about something they read in the paper. They've gone online. And that's ok - hopeful, even. They're reading. They just don't read the actual paper.

We all had different stories - 40 or so of us who met on the top floor of Penn's Annenberg School to blue sky on a gray day and tried to fashion the local news organization of the 21st century. Many of us came from opposite sides of the street - newspaper people and bloggers, reporters and editors, mainstream and indie types, a polymath who never went to college and the dean of an Ivy League school.

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Red-faced

POSTED: Friday, March 24, 2006, 2:05 PM

Filed Under: Media

Say goodbye to the Washington Post Online's new conservative blogger, Ben Domenech.

Resigned.

Amid accusations of plagiarism.

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Put On Your High Heeled Sneakers

POSTED: Friday, March 24, 2006, 6:01 AM

Filed Under: Music

Bruce Warren at WXPN and Some Velvet Blog knows the way to Blinq's cold heart. Show us a monkey riding a border collie and point us to some new music to download, in this case songs by The Harlem Shakes. By email, he promises they're "a cool and up and coming band from New York." We've been playing air bass to "A Night" ever since we clicked 'save.'

What's Warren working? Spreading the word about an XPN Welcomes showcase set for Saturday night and co-sponsored with the half-Philly, half NYC blog called Badminton Stamps.

Badminton Stamps has put the Mp3s up on its site to stir a little interest for the show, which also features The Sun and The Picture, all fresh from South By Southwest and, "all surely riding atop hype waves of proportions not seen since microfich first promised to forever replace microfilm." Read for yourself what the site promised about Philadelphia fillies. (God, is that spelled right?) $6 gets you into the World Cafe Live for the three.

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Who Called The Storms?

POSTED: Thursday, March 23, 2006, 6:41 AM

Filed Under: Weather

With spring here in fact, if not spirit, it's time for Philadelphia Weather to wrap up the inaugural Rate the TV Weatherpeople contest.

Tom Thunstrom called his little experiment the 2005-2006 Forecast Challenge, actually, but same difference. He measured two sorts of accuracy - when a storm would start and how much snow would fall. There wasn't that much to work with, he concedes: 19.4 inches of snow hit the Delaware Valley officially, thanks mostly to the Feb. 11th and 12th event - I love that word. Official means measured at Philadelphia International Airport.

Ok, drum roll, please.

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Nothing Says 'I Love You' Like Edible Sonograms

POSTED: Thursday, March 23, 2006, 6:00 AM

Filed Under: Modern Times

If we're talking about PR pitches that miss the plate, this one's way outside.

Put your baby's sonogram on a cookie. It begins:

A sonogram is a mother's first picture of her gorgeous baby. Why not present it in a Picture Perfect fashion?

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Perfessor

POSTED: Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 11:59 AM

Filed Under: Education

The Columbia Journalism Review called Dick Polman one of the nation's top political reporters. Jules Witcover called him "one of the best of the political reporters who have succeeded my own generation."

Now you can call him "perfessor."

And say goodbye, sort of.

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Throwing From The Left

POSTED: Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 9:46 AM

Filed Under: Weblogs

Some local bloggers have made it to the finals of the Koufax Awards, the laurels named for the left-handed Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher of lore.

Susie Madrak, who writes Suburban Guerrilla, is one of 12 vying for Best Writing in a liberal blog.

Will Bunch, made the grade for Best Local or State blog. UPDATE: So did Blue Jersey, crows Cherry Hill blogger Jay Lassiter.

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Big Pond

POSTED: Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 5:36 AM

Filed Under: Stuff

Stephen Starr gets one in the New York Times - Morimoto's Manhattan transfer reviewed.

It's "a stunning piece of work: a sparkly wonderland for glittery people," writes restaurant reviewer Frank Bruni today. "It's Morimoto's moment."

Unfortunately most of the raves in this one-star review are reserved for the decor. Some over-roasted the critic's lobster - just about all the shellfish felt left too long on the flame. "And limp ribbons of beef in a soy and mirin broth tasted as if they had been adrift in hot water three times longer than they should have been."

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The Unconference

POSTED: Tuesday, March 21, 2006, 9:37 AM

Filed Under: Media

Good to see that Attytood sports a new sig for the new era - one of blogger Will Bunch holding out his coffee cup. He looks like he should be sitting on the curb outside the Wawa.

We might kid, but we love what he's done with the space. He's trying to save The Daily News and doesn't mind if he saves The Inquirer in the process.

We can thank Bunch for the Unconference that's taking place Saturday at Penn's Annenberg School of Communications, where participants will mull over what sort of media can survive this time of dizzying change and economic uncertainty.

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