Word: contently
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...going very smoothly until my editor's editor's editor decided we had a policy against the mingling of advertising and editorial content and we would have to give the Pom Wonderful money to charity. Oddly, I thought that was what I was doing this whole time. Instead, all my efforts did was teach me exactly why the proud, antediluvian print-journalism companies are in financial trouble. Not only is Time Inc. turning down $25,000, but it's employing three editors for this column...
...only thing Bellows liked better than high style and muscular editorial content was a fight. He would poke any eye to start one. In 1965 I wrote a story for New York having some sport with William Shawn, editor of the New Yorker. The moment our issue came off the press, Bellows sent a copy to Shawn. The detonator was a little inscription on the calling card that accompanied it: "With my compliments, James G. Bellows...
...coma and tries to unravel what happened to him (I’ll give you a hint—it involves a note in his pocket which reads “I don’t ever want to see you again”), but most of the lyrical content vacillates between drivel and schmaltz. Yet in order to maintain commercial success, perhaps NFG need do little more than tweak their music for an era unenthused with pop-punk and make angst-ridden songs about abortive romances. After all, there will always be an audience for this type of music...
...said that publishing Wikipedia articles in book form is a “fantastic idea” that would be “easy to use for basic info.” Many in the Harvard community expressed concern over the fact that any Wikipedia user can edit the content of articles, which they say undermines its reliability in an academic setting. Stephen Pinker, an acclaimed Harvard psychology professor, said, “I think Wikipedia is a fantastic resource although I don’t allow students to use it as a source for their papers...
...don’t seem half bad, but, okay, we’ll try that too.” Whatever it is, they’re willing to go along with it. I’m not sure you’d say the same thing about the mainstream content businesses in the United States. Now, they have significant challenges in adopting new technologies. They have long-term contracts. They have many parties, all of whom need to agree to move to the new technology. But maybe that’s part of the problem. They?...