Electric Fishwrap has moved

Who winced at the title? I did when writing it. Trust me there’s a reason. One of the sites I read on a daily basis is Apostrophe Abuse. I especially love when schools and colleges improperly use apostrophies or there/they’re/their. Restaurants seem to be the highest offenders.

Regret the Error is another good one. It seems this site especially targets the high-profile papers and their corrections. It’s amazing to see how many papers mistakenly claim someone is dead, rather than missing or whatever. RtE also writes a plagiarism roundup at the end of the year.

Finally, Passive-Aggressive Notes. Who doesn’t know someone who put up a note in the kitchen urging people to pick up after themselves and reminding them that their mother doesn’t live here? Not all notes are passive-aggressive, though. Some are just plain funny.

I’ve migrated to tagging static Web pages with Delicious. I also have been uploading photos and browsing Flickr. I organize my contacts list in Gmail, and save important documents there as well.

Now I’ve got to get my RSS feeds on Google Reader. I could tell at a glance what is most important instead of trying to organize all of my dozens of RSS feeds. At least it’s a fun project for the next few days between when I get home and Eric arrives from a full day at grad school.

My paper has made the transition from afternoon distribution to evening distribution. For the newsroom that means reporters and editors are actually there after 4 p.m. For everyone else that means… not much. Except I hear we are actually gaining subscribers because of it even though all predictions said we’d lose a couple hundred.

The only downside to this big change is there is now competition for the newsroom’s only laptop. I love using the laptop. I can type much faster than I can write. I can look up archived stories for background information and to ask better questions. Most importantly, it has an air card so I can file right from my meeting and then go home and bring it back to the newsroom in the morning.

When we were a p.m. paper most reporters wrote their stories between 7 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. the next morning. But now that we’ve all got a deadline of 9:30 p.m. everyone wants to use it.

Fortunately most of my meetings end before 9 p.m., so if I hurry back I can push the envelope of my deadline.