Christmas is coming, so it won't be long before you're walking barefoot through spilled soda and children's vomit at a security checkpoint in some godforsaken airport. Fortunately, the TSA has leaked a sensitive document explaining how to avoid all that.
The White House Correspondents' Association has started letting lowly blogs participate in the White House pool, and now the real journalists are all upset about it.
The White House today decided to start publishing the names of White House visitors, ending two lawsuits seeking Secret Service visitor logs under the Freedom of Information Act. It's a nice gesture, but that's just about all it is.
Jake Tapper, the blog-happy ABC newshunk, has been accused of blocking his detractors on Twitter, a service which allows Internet commenters to pester you 140 characters at a time.
>The hacker who broke into Sarah Palin's email account has, of course, been roundly condemned for his actions, but he has for the moment succeeded in reviving the unanswered question of why the Alaska governor had two quasi-official email addresses, gov.palin@yahoo.com and gov.sarah@yahoo.com. So central were the…
I'm trying a new management technique this morning! Instead of just writing posts myself every morning, I'm waiting for the staff to file their own items. Crazy, right? Well, it's 9:45 a.m. now. We'll see how this goes! P.S. The weather outside is fairly mild, though NY1 says it's 366 um, just 36F, if you haven't been…
Yesterday Radar seized on a memo circulating at the Times which would abolish the use of story datelines indicating when a reporter actually wrote a story, as opposed to when the story was printed. "The "significant advantages" include doing "away with datelines that are several days old, which can make a story…
I am going on vacation. Emily and Josh will be the new me and will also be each other, but not themselves, Maggie will be the new Josh except less prone to nudity and bad sweaters, and Sheila will be the new Maggie, but with less swearing. Next week, though, Pareene will be the new Doree-Balk—but not until then…
Magazine and newspaper advertising folks just don't know what they're missing! While they may have invented the advertorial ad, wherein, say, Washington Post articles get reprinted in ad space, print folks have none of the boundless freedom of online ad folks, who aren't restrained by the physical facts of editorial…
NICK DOUGLAS — I'm not one to look a gift naked woman in the mouth. But has anyone wondered, if Wired Magazine is so gung-ho about going "transparent," why did they ruin a perfectly good chance to do so with their cover photo of Jenna Fischer? The lovely Office actress's airbrushed skin looks like a slick synthetic…
Writing in the Pursuits section of the Wall Street Journal's weekend edition today, film critic Joe Morgenstern takes approximately 70 square inches to explain why the "gory, stupid" action movie 300 is a symptom of the empty bigness that Americans now demand from their entertainment. (We'd link to it, but according…
Unfortunately, I can't bring myself to sit through 25 minutes of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales enthusing about transparency as a way to hype his forthcoming alleged Google-killer. Wales gave the talk last week; Information Week does the summation, and you can plunge into a full-length video here if you're so…
