Comments on: Blogging Article in the Austin American-Statesman Today

By: pylorns

pylorns — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:23:26 +0000

Nice, at least they followed up with another email.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:13:05 +0000

Murphy’s law on writing & proofreading:

Muphry’s Law dictates that (a) if you write anything criticizing editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written; (b) if an author thanks you in a book for your editing or proofreading, there will be mistakes in the book; (c) the stronger the sentiment expressed in (a) and (b), the greater the fault; (d) any book devoted to editing or style will be internally inconsistent.

John Bangsund, The Society of Editors Newsletter, March 1992

By: Duke

Duke — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:16:52 +0000

“I’ve been a professional writer for far too long to realize that editorial blunders occur from time-to-time.”

not realize? Or should you entirely reconstruct that sentence.

Freudian slip? Are you actually downplaying your anger?

Funny that should happen in a sentence that begins and ends as that one does.

By: Kemo

Kemo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:59:00 +0000

Robbie,

Congrats on piece in the Statesman. One of 3 in Austin huh? Nice nitch.

By: Pam

Pam — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:13:07 +0000

Well, I’m just starting and out of practice writing. And. Trying to figure out all the different blogger thingies. But, it’ll come along eventually…

By: Omar G.

Omar G. — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:59:53 +0000

According to our state editor, Debra Davis, a story on conservative blogging is planned for Friday A1.

Thanks for your comments and again, I apologize for the URL mistake — it’s been fixed in the online version of the story.

By: snowed in

snowed in — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:34:30 +0000

I’m sure they believe that, Barbara…that’s the problem. (This is one of the reasons I dropped them a few months ago.)

It’s nice to know there are a few of us in Austin…all I ever see linked are the ones from the other side. And I’d subscribe to your blog, Barbara, but you don’t seem to have an RSS feed…

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:25:26 +0000

Hey! I'm one and Will Franklin at Willisms is another. It doesn't surprise me that the error in your site's name was very, very close to a famous far left site. To be fair, AAS had an article about Defending the Dream Summit last Saturday. Saturday, not on the front page and mentioning no blogs at all. There! That was fair.

By: snowed in

snowed in — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:18:48 +0000

“I think there’s three of us.” Who's the third? And it seems rather disingenuous of the Statesman to mention Netroots Nation without mentioning the Defending the American Dream Summit.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:50:32 +0000

while I’d love to be able to blog full time as a career, there’s just no way I’m willing to take that kind of pay cut from my current full-time paid career as a writer.

Tell Larry, Moe, & Curley, that it’s time for them to pull their own weight and to go out and get jobs. No more free kibble.