On Is Your Social Media Editor Destroying Your News Organization Today?
Hey everybody, listen up: I gotta go take a time out, and then I'll come back here and post some more comments. Have to use the bathroom. Ate a lot of Mexican food last night. 'Nuff said. Thanks for understanding.
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On In Praise Of Editors, Or In This Case, Editor
Carrie, I wish my name were spelled differently so I could be related to you. Best of luck!
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On Hi, What Have You Guys Been Up To?
Despite what Big Google may have told Choire, it is still posting "This site may harm your computer" warnings next to its search-result links from any Awl sites. And when you click those links, it still redirects you to one of those Warning pages.
Check it out: www.google.com/search?as_sitesearch=theawl.com
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On How "Baby It's Cold Outside" Became America's Secular Christmas Anthem, Despite People Claiming It's About Date Rape
That original version sung by Frank and Lynn Loesser is just perfect. 60-odd years later, nobody could ever improve on it.
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On In the Immortal Words of Alanis Morissette and Prince....
@MisterHippity Oh shit, you have been doing these every day, haven't you? Sorry!
(Keep up, Hippity!)
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On In the Immortal Words of Alanis Morissette and Prince....
@Emily Gould@facebook OK, so is this one of those intentionally ironic Facebook comments, or one of those "I forgot my Awl password" Facebook comments?
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On In the Immortal Words of Alanis Morissette and Prince....
Choire, could you make one of these every day? (Except with different music?) It could be like a "talking newsletter"!
Ok, once a week maybe.
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On Please Welcome "The Awl's Weekend Companion," for iPad and iPhone
Ha, it has a picture of an awl on the cover! That was Balk's doing, wasn't it?
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On The English Language's 26 Most Important Letters
I before E? No weigh!
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On Is Your Social Media Editor Destroying Your News Organization Today?
@Cathy Halley@twitter Probably the female ones were more likely to stop and ask for directions on how to get the source info to confirm the accuracy of a rumor, while the male ones just blundered around insisting they could find that info for themselves, and wound up getting totally lost.