Welcome to the hellsheet experiment

Welcome to hellsheet.com, a blog/website for professional journalists to discuss the New York Times.

For a more detailed description of what this is about, please click the About hellsheet link at the top of the left sidebar.

Comments

[Richard Silverstein]

Roger: Great to meet you in the UserGroup.

I'm tremendously interested in your blog. My blog too is largely based on articles from the Times which I discuss in my posts. I don't know whether you publish other folks' work here; or whether you do any cross linking...but I'd be really happy if you'd take a look at my NYT related posts, which you can identify by using my search engine feature.

I have a special post in which I attacked the NYT.com policy of denying free access to bloggers and their viewers after 7 days on the site (with a few exceptions). It's called "Media to Bloggers: Drop Dead!"

I have to say though that I don't approach this as you or a professional journalist would. I mostly use the NYT articles as a jumping off point allowing me to express my own views on the issue.

But I certainly agree w. you completely that the Times needs the kind of critical assessment your blog provides.

If you find it appropriate I'll be happy to cross link to your blog as well.

Have you ever visited the NYT.com Mideast Peace forum?

[Roger Karraker]

Richard, you're my first visitor here. Welcome. Many of the questions you ask I don't have answers for yet. That's what the alpha period is for, to determine what works best and what doesn't. So forgive me if I can't answer definitively -- yet.

My anticipation, though, is that the blog WILL have some co-editors, WILL have cross-linking and so on.

I've only visited one NYT forum, that on Paul Krugman, and I was only mildly impressed with it. I've been involved in computer conferencing for about 17 years. My most significant presence, and the place I consider my online "home", is The Well (www.well.com). The Well costs a little -- $10/month, I think -- but is well worth it. You're looking for high-quality discussion and you'll find it there. I hope you join up. If you do, email me back and let me know your Well userid. I'm there.

[xian]

I'd like to plug this blog on my metablog (RFB), when you're ready for prime time.

[Roger Karraker]

Thanks, Christian. I"ll notify you when it's ready. I should mention, for others who stroll by that Christian's blog, Radio Free Blogistan is excellent read for ALL who want to keep up with the blogging arts.

[brian dear]

Just plugged your blog over at my brianstorms.com blog. I love the idea of hellsheet and will be a frequent visitor to the site. Good luck, Roger!

[Roger Karraker]

Thanks, Brian. I hope all who visit here will make suggestions on how to improve the site. I'm somewhat new to blogging and need all the help I can get.

[Richard Silverstein]

Roger: I didn't see your reply to my original comment until just now.

I've linked to you at my blog. I will check out the well.com very soon.

I asked you about the NYT forums because I was just discovering them myself at the time. I really hate their forum format. It's archaically awful. I'm esp. interested in the ME conflict & their ME Peace forum consists of a bunch of hypertesterone infused hawkish male egos. Too much vitriol & too little reasoned debate. I'm a dove myself as you can tell.

I think you should blog sometime on NYT.com as a standalone enterprise. There are many things about it which need change & improvement. Blogger news source access is one. The forums I've already mentioned. ANother is that I've noticed that some online articles are shortened for space purposes I suppose. But you just can't be sure that what you're writing about in an original text article is going to be in the online version.

Krugman was here in Seattle yesterday & I only found out about it as he was speaking. Too bad. I really like his columns.

[catherine askew]

Catherine Askew
Journalism 1
Article: Parking SRJC

Warning: Parking at SRJC Santa Rosa Campus may be hazardous to your health!
So, you purchased your “hunting license” to find a parking spot on campus.
Read the fine print. “Permit good only when spaces available; chances not good between the hours of 9am to 1pm Monday through Friday”. Okay, that leaves Monday through Friday from 5pm till? And anytime Saturday and Sunday. THAT WILL WORK!
Maybe a new program instated for absentee students trying to find parking would fit the bill. Or better yet, how about becoming a 9am to 1pm surf bum Monday through Friday, and join campus night life giving audience to your favorite night-time Prof. NO PARKING PROBLEM!
Alright, bad idea. So lets face the parking lot problem head on. We make our approach into the parking lot war zone. You’ve just entered the innersanctum of parking lot lunacy. Your vehicle begins to take on a life of it’s own as it rolls up, then down each parking isle looking for a parking spot. ANY spot. Reality bites. Not a single void between any two parallel lines exist. Each space is occupied by wheels of steel whose drivers had classes at 7am. The early bookworm gets the dirt between the lines. And no, you don’t want to get to campus at 7am and sleep in your car until your classes start at 9am. So suffer the consequences. Pick a row and line up, car after car, at either end, waiting for the slow trickle of students coming out of class and leaving their parking spots. You stand vigilant and territorial over your place in line. Oh God, fifteen minutes till class starts; ten minutes; five minutes. I’m late again! Aaugh. Five, ten, fifteen minutes more. Okay, its my turn. You see a vacater coming. He’s meandering like the parking God slowly down the row towards his wheels, keys dangling like the bells of time. Engines start to rev, and my wheels slowly start to follow his every step. Hey, what’s this? Another car with one of his buddies just pulls along side him, and you see his finger pointing his bud to his spot. “Oh no you don’t,” you say. You jam your car up to his and in a traditional Texas standoff, your metal shield on wheels refuses exit or entry into your spot by the intruder. After a few choice hand signals, he backs off. Triumphantly you pull your wheels of steel into their rightful position. Now Run! Before class is over. OR, here’s an idea. Avoid all the mess, and park over at the Santa Rosa Plaza Shopping Mall, second floor at Macy’s, and catch the shuttle to campus. It runs Monday through Thursday from 8:30 am until 3.30 pm, every fifteen minutes. Nah! Why do that when you can start your day out a nervous wreck?

[Jason Doune]

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[Jiny Lisane]

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