Archive for July, 2008
sashay, shante!
its been a while since we’ve discussed fashion, but today i decided to take a closer look at two fashion stories:
the ubiquitous purple necktie. donned by tv news deliverers. if you all remember, i wrote a story a while back about the abundance of the silk monochrome tie–the purple tie is it.
the emergence of [...]
facebook definitely mainstream now
most of us have regular routines when we get into the office each morning. more than likely it includes logging into facebook to play our turn in scrabulous. with more than half a million players, the widely addictive scrabulous modeled after the board game scrabble was created for facebook by two brothers in india. all [...]
field trip: newseum
as you can imagine, a trip to newseum for me is like a trip to disney for a 10 year old. if you’re planning a trip to dc, i’d definitely recommend adding a stop to your itinerary. the six floors (plus a basement) is devoted to exhibits on news history. yes, there is such a [...]
you know, google ads work well too…
instead of the buy-low/sell-high, internet advertising, or selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door, the get-rich quick schemes in tanzania involve the killing of albinos. the country’s witch doctors are said to be behind the killings–they use albino’s body parts to create potions that make people rich. unfortunately, this is no joke.
as of this weekend, the 26th albino [...]
there’s no such thing as bad press…
but there is such as thing as obscure press. america’s newsroom’s (of fox news) pr people is either targeting a certain type of viewers or they’re just snoozing on the job. this month, bill hemmer is on the cover of cincinnati gentleman and megyn kelly is featured animal fair magazine.
we hear that hemmer talks about [...]
no love for the GOP
federal records of donations by journalist and “newsroom categories” staff show some interesting facts:
· 235 journalists donated to democrats, 20 to republicans
· the ratio of democratic donations to republican donations from journalist is 15:1, $225,563 to democrats and $16,298 to republicans
· of reporters, correspondents, news editors, anchors, newspaper editors and publishers (also known as newsroom [...]
the week in review
this is what happened this week on sacredbird, according to website wordle. we’re taking bets about what will happen next week. but we’re getting discouraged, because no one has taken us up on another challenge. but anyway, enjoy the weekend!
how to read the word cloud: word clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more [...]
