“Please note, however, that our applications process has a number of key requirements: you must have prior experience writing for a Technorati Top 100 blog and you must be a regular Twitter user with 500 followers or more.”
— Mashable is Hiring: When Twitter and Technorati are the New Resume.

What's Wrong With Being Grotesque? →

It’s certainly been a while since the Japanese have given us a film to be shocked over, but it seems like Koji Shiraishi’s Grotesque managed to make the Brits all squirmy in their trousers.  While a bland report from the British Band of Film Classification has outright banned the DVD rental and sale of the film, the reasoning of BBFC director David Cooke

“I want to be able to know it all and do it all. I’m starting a blog just for practicing my writing skills…Honestly, I can see myself writing about political issues, music reviews, current fashion, just anything and everything.”
— Anonymous person who randomly contacted me, asked for career advice and her response after I asked “So…what exactly do you want to do?"

“If you are a true journalist, the world is going to kick your ass. If you are a true journalist, you are supposed to be having a hard time. This is how the world makes writers. It kicks their ass long enough that they start finally telling the truth. They just finally give up and start bleating out little truthlets.”
— Cary Tennis, on being a “journalist" after someone wrote in and complained that they studied print and print is dead and Journalism Schools won’t acknowledge it.