December 31st, 2007
On this last day of 2007, I want to share our photographers’ best pictures of the year. We posted the photo gallery late last week, and it’s already a reader favorite. It was fun for me to click through and remember the events our staffers captured. In the newspaper tomorrow, we’ll run a page of some of these photos. Online, you can see ‘em all.
(I am having some issues with linking to the individual photo gallery because it’s a pop-up. Go here and click on “2007: The year in photos.”)
December 31st, 2007
Sometimes the conversation on our forums is far from civil, and sometimes we ban users for violating our terms of service. Some of the stuff people post on our forums I can’t imagine they would say out loud. So, why would people post it online and put that stuff in writing? My best guess is the anonymity factor. Here’s one of the rules I learned early on in my career: Don’t put anything in writing that you would never want to appear in the newspaper or on the Web site. That means e-mail messages, Word documents, blog posts … well, pretty much anything. I’ll never understand why people post the stuff they do on mySpace and even Facebook. Don’t they know their future employers check google them? On our forums, though, most people don’t use their real names. So, I guess that’s safer. But still, with technology advances every day, I would worry I might not be so anonymous after all.
