Today: Woody Allen and Lindsay Lohan get chummy, David Brooks departs Bethesda for D.C., and the Vogue editors will all be wearing pink tonight at the Costume Institute gala.
Patch's request to its hundreds of local editors not to comment on Jim Romenesko's reporting on Patch is just the latest example of a big media company trying, and failing, to control its people's participation in Internet conversation.
Jim Romenesko had the smart, if random, idea to ask the folks at Target headquarters what they think of Kristen Wiig's "Target Lady" character, the friendly but incompetent employee who has abandoned customers at her register for years on live television.
This is just one strange data point found by blogger Jim Romenesko over at his new blog on some of the more peculiar habits of NPR listeners.
Jim Romenesko, patron saint of aggregators and online journalists, has launched his new eponymous site and in case you missed it, opened the blog with a long read of his side of his fallout with Poynter.
It only took him three tries, but after 12 years, the legendary media blogger and journalism evangelist Jim Romenesko is finished with the Poynter Institute.
Turns out that practically none of the media reporters that Poynter Institute editor Julie Moos wants to protect from being over-aggregated by Poynter's own lauded and soon-to-be-semi-retired Jim Romenesko feel particularly ripped off.
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