tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66267122024-03-08T19:41:06.452+11:00Paul Wiggins: copy editor in AustraliaMostly about copy editing, sport and newspaper design.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.comBlogger140125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-26271783508986498732008-09-11T16:03:00.002+10:302008-09-11T16:06:46.582+10:30you can finde me elsewhereI am now on friendfeed as part of social media research, apologies to those wondering why the subscriprion. Feedfriend newbiePaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-24932196821502395902007-08-01T05:53:00.000+10:302007-08-01T05:59:14.092+10:30What happened next department ...blacktownsun.com.au<br /><br /><br />macarthuradvertiser.com.au<br /><br /><br />camdenadvertiser.com.au<br /><br /><br />wollondillyadvertiser.com.au<br /><br /><br />fairfieldchampion.com.au<br /><br /><br />hawkesburyindependent.com.au<br /><br /><br />hillsnews.com.au<br /><br /><br />thenorthernnews.com.au<br /><br /><br />liverpoolchampion.com.au<br /><br /><br /><br />penrithstar.com.au<br /><br /><br />southwestruraladvertiser.com.au<br /><br /><br />theleader.com.au<br /><br /><br />stmarysstar.com.auPaulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1116348603226868252005-05-18T03:18:00.000+10:302005-05-18T03:26:25.156+10:30I do not agree with much of this<a href="http://visualeditors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19686#19686">http://visualeditors.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19686#19686</a><br /><br /><strong>But have a look anyway</strong>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1112765664542896262005-04-06T16:02:00.000+10:302005-04-06T16:42:19.730+10:30My small townSpice up your sports pictorials with a crowd shot. Here's a good one from the a NSW <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/11/06/1036308361175.html">bowls</a> match.<br /><br /><br /><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v691/paulwiggins/sww69490a.jpg" alt="Image hosted by Photobucket.com"><br /><br /><strong>Quirky is good.</strong>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com111tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1112760520369252272005-04-06T14:35:00.000+10:302005-04-06T14:38:40.370+10:30Marketing ourselvesAnother Sydney newspaper group has produced an online video explaining it's demographics. Look for the link at the right of <a href="http://www.fpc.com.au/page/couriersite.php?pageid=34">one of their web pages</a><br /><strong>I'm not to keen on the box moving about the map though.</strong>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1112152475612832472005-03-30T13:42:00.000+10:302005-04-06T14:40:15.196+10:30Something worth rememberingI found this nifty quote on the web page of ABC Television's Media Watch:<br /><em> Being a newspaper columnist is like marrying a nymphomaniac - it's great for the first two weeks."<br />- Lewis Grizzard (1947 - 1994)</em><br /><strong>This former columnist can verify all of the except for the bit about marrying</strong>.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1109732319928033952005-03-02T13:54:00.000+11:002005-03-02T14:09:40.920+11:00Brain foodOne of the reasons I'm in this game is the childhood association of takeaway fish and chips being wrapped up in newspapers. Ah, the romance of it all. Some years ago this was banned because of concerns about contamination from printing plates and ink refined from crude oil. Now that we use plates made with lasers and put non-toxic inks through the press can't we restore the practice?Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1109730777521109812005-03-02T13:30:00.000+11:002005-03-02T13:32:57.523+11:00Double plus ungoodNewscom.au reports: <em>"BEFORE Christ" has been written out of some history books in NSW schools and replaced with "Before Common Era" in political correctness gone mad, the State Opposition said today.</em> Details <a href="http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12419518-1702,00.html">here</a>.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1109729793374447192005-03-02T13:07:00.000+11:002005-03-02T13:17:46.810+11:00About our papersNifty profiles of the community papers I work on are now available at <a href="http://fcnonline.com.au/newnswoffices.asp">http://fcnonline.com.au/newnswoffices.asp</a> The other gig is a day a week at the Illawarra Mercury, a regional daily.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1107907732958181932005-02-09T11:06:00.000+11:002005-02-09T11:08:52.960+11:00Wikipedia warningI'm seeing more stuff on the internet citing <a href="wikipedia.com">Wikipedia</a> as a source. Let's be pretty clear that it is not an authorative one.
<br /><strong>User beware.</strong>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1107907259930374652005-02-09T10:58:00.000+11:002005-02-09T11:00:59.930+11:001966 Encyclopaedia of New ZealandThis three-volume work, from which I learnt so much as a lad, is now <a href="http://www.teara.govt.nz/1966/en">online</a>.
<br /><strong>No cracks about the country not being part of the modern world please.</strong>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1107401414668187042005-02-03T14:24:00.000+11:002005-02-03T14:30:14.670+11:00State of the Student Press<a href="http://mediawatch.co.nz">Mediawatch.co.nz</a> has interviewed Chris Trotter, an erstwhile student press rival and later colleague on <a href="http://nbr.co.nz">The National Business Review</a>. In the same item they talk to the present editor of <a href="http://salient.co.nz">Salient</a>, a paper I contributed to between 1980 and 1987.
<br /><strong>Tell it to young folk nowadays and they won't believe ya.</strong>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1107066242423762852005-01-30T17:21:00.000+11:002005-01-30T17:24:02.423+11:00Why?Rather than taking advantage of many of the lovely parks and beaches on the South Coast, a bridal party is having a photographic shoot in the driveway of the Illawarra Mercury building.
<br /><strong>First time I've ever seen a subs desk stumped for an answer.</strong>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1102556523520942192004-12-09T13:40:00.000+11:002004-12-09T12:53:04.766+11:00Great newsMike Jarboe, an upstate New York copy editor of some wisdom and wit, has launched a blog, <a href="http://journals.aol.com/otimefiddler/ThatsniceCheeks/">That's Nice, Cheeks</a>
<br /><strong>That lifts my mood on what has been a miserable day.</strong>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1101126444399112872004-11-22T23:26:00.000+11:002004-11-22T23:36:54.253+11:00Goals achievedIt's all good.
<br /><strong>Time for stickcricket.com</strong>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1100216695699691162004-11-12T10:41:00.000+11:002004-11-12T10:46:30.523+11:00AdjectivesDoug Fisher's Common Sense Journalism <a href="http://commonsensej.blogspot.com/">blog </a>has a November 2 post about ''hotly contested'' elections. It's good stuff.
<br /><strong>Adjectives are the enemies of nouns.</strong>
<br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1100216269194283412004-11-12T10:36:00.000+11:002004-11-12T10:37:49.196+11:00So far, so good.Day one of the Leader's redesign and new computer software has gone well.
<br /><strong>A credit to those people who planned the exercise. Less haste means more speed.</strong>
<br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1100068151760968212004-11-10T17:26:00.000+11:002004-11-10T17:29:11.760+11:00The world moves quickly.Tomorrow the Leader moves to a new version of our pagination program. Among other things it measures the depth of modules in lines rather than centimetres. We also implement a redesign basically in one go.
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<br /><strong>The joyful news here is that I feel relaxed and comfortable about it. The plans seem well laid.</strong>
<br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1100067945337509462004-11-10T17:23:00.000+11:002004-11-10T17:25:45.336+11:00Top me if you've heard this one before deptA colleague asks why the word abbreviation is so long and phonetic isn't spelt with an f.
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<br /><strong>This arises in connection to my culling of abbreviations in copy.</strong>
<br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1099981126850879762004-11-09T17:17:00.000+11:002004-11-09T17:21:35.033+11:00Welcome to the world<span style="color:#000066;">From news.com.au</span>
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<br />NEWS Limited chairman Lachlan Murdoch and his wife, Sarah O'Hare, have announced the birth of their son, Kalan Alexander Murdoch.Kalan was born at 2.44pm today at the Mater Hospital, North Sydney, weighing 8lbs 6ozs.
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<br /><strong>Think I'll call him sir.</strong>
<br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1099634065309790522004-11-05T16:50:00.000+11:002004-11-05T16:55:49.143+11:00Parting is, this time, sorrow.There are my last key strokes on a computer tha has served faithfully for the past four years. A new fancy one complete with bells and whistles that I have been trained for arrives on Monday.
<br /><strong> Sounds like a good reason to have a beer.Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1093883218784751562004-08-31T02:49:00.000+10:302004-08-31T03:18:01.370+10:30a capital ideaabove all else if you are a copy editor or a subeditor do read <a href="nstockdale.blogspot.com">nicole stockdale </a>she writes a capital idea blogspot pardon the lower case
<br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1093170016941853632004-08-22T20:48:00.000+10:302004-08-22T20:50:16.940+10:30Thanks blogspot.comAt the moment you'll see a button inviting you to go to a random page.
<br /><strong>Try it. It's fun.</strong>
<br />Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1092892360598170172004-08-19T15:38:00.000+10:302004-08-19T15:42:40.596+10:30Just like the good old daysThe Sydney metros are meking substantial changes between editions as Olympic news comes to hand.
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<br /><b> Good to see </b>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6626712.post-1092720127473659222004-08-17T15:51:00.000+10:302004-08-17T15:57:56.150+10:30I'm backAfter a time out to deal with some professional and personal matters, daily postings will resume.
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<br /><B>Emphasis reverts to copy editing and away from html, although I will be starting to write source code from scratch as well as copy and pasting.</B>Paulhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18241902773458200169noreply@blogger.com0