<div dir="ltr">I miss cover art in general...at InfoWorld we used to have an art department (long ago in days of print) and the cover art for some of the monster articles I did with Wayne Rash, Oliver Rist and Curtis Franklin were spectacular. I'm especially fond of the art for "Pimp my data center" where the racks has spinners and gold chains draped around them. <div><br></div><div>/brian chee</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 10:42 AM Stephen Lawton <<a href="mailto:sl@afab.com">sl@afab.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_-4258780642692724402WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">When I was at Cahners in the early 1990s, I wrote for a couple of titles there. At one pub I wrote a cover story and used auto racing as a metaphor for getting off to a fast start but not being able to finish the race. Not sure who ultimately was responsible for the cover art but the cover was of a speed boat. It was a pretty cover but made absolutely no sense when you read the copy. I too get some weird messages -- mostly postal mail with the cover torn off and the first page of the story -- asking me why I didn’t put racing cars on the cover and questioning my sanity and parentage. I asked my editor back then who was responsible for the cover art, to which he said something like: “What’s wrong – don’t you like boats?” End of conversation.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">When I ultimately became an EIC myself, I always was very careful to check the cover art and the cover story to make sure that I didn’t make that same mistake myself.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)">Stephen<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Stephen Lawton<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Special Projects Editorial Director<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">SC Media, A Haymarket Media Publication<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Office Phone Number: 503-747-5333<u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)"><a href="mailto:Stephen.Lawton@haymarketmedia.com" target="_blank">Stephen.Lawton@haymarketmedia.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Twitter: <a href="http://twitter.com/afabmedia" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/afabmedia</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)">Facebook: <a href="http://facebook.com/SCMag" target="_blank">http://facebook.com/SCMag</a><u></u><u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)"><u></u> <u></u></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:rgb(192,80,77)">Three things are certain: <u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:rgb(192,80,77)">Death, taxes and lost data. <u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="color:rgb(192,80,77)">Guess which has occurred.<u></u><u></u></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(192,80,77)">—Author Unknown<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,32,96)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)">The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. 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Thank you. </span></i><span style="color:rgb(127,127,127)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Webdings;color:rgb(28,124,0)">P</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif;color:rgb(28,124,0)"> </span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,124,0)">Please consider the </span><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,124,0)">environment</span><span style="font-size:7pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(28,124,0)"> before printing this e-mail</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,102,102)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(181,196,223);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,sans-serif;color:windowtext"> Ipg-smz [mailto:<a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Gabe Goldberg<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 8, 2019 2:39 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] A question for everyone, particularly Esther Schindler<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p>Related: I wrote for Washington Post for a while (Hi, Rob) including (back when this was a thing) writing nugget website reviews. One was a handyman/DIY site. Post usually ran graphics -- which of course I had nothing to do with -- with these; this one showed slotted screwdriver pointing at Phillip's head screw (or the reverse).<u></u><u></u></p><p>I GOT HATE MAIL. Dozens. Many dozens. "What kind of $%^^$# idiot are you to DARE writing about tools?!". If they weren't insane, I had a canned response: Don't blame me; I didn't see that until I bought the paper. That often led to funny/polite exchanges. But some responded brutally to that and some original notes were so bad I didn't engage. The Post made it worse by publishing letter-to-editor mocking the article/piece. I asked (Hi, Rob) Post to run correction/clarification/disclaimer that it was someone ELSE's bad idea of a joke but my editor (guess who) didn't think that would happen.<u></u><u></u></p><p>Same problem as author being blamed for hed -- readers can't grasp so many roles at work.<u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">On 2/8/2019 10:46 AM, Joe Stanganelli wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><p class="MsoNormal">I can top that: On a pub that no longer exists, the copy desk removed a joke of mine (which, if that was the only thing they did, fine) and replaced it with a worse, shittier “joke” that made no sense.<br><br>It was so embarrassing that I never shared the piece on social, and distanced myself from it.<br><br>I don’t mind having my jokes removed; just please don’t change or replace them.<br><br>I’ve actually come to expect my editors to remove my jokes; these days, I’m surprised when one gets through.<br><br>One of the inventors of CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing is named Jennifer Doudna. In a piece I wrote a couple of years ago about patent rights surrounding CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing, I used the subhed “Doudna, Where’s My Cas?”<br><br>I was shocked and disappointed in my editor.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Joe<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><hr size="3" width="98%" align="center"></span></div><div id="gmail-m_-4258780642692724402divRplyFwdMsg"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Ipg-smz <a href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org" target="_blank"><ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org></a> on behalf of Mac McCarthy <a href="mailto:mac.mccarthy@gmail.com" target="_blank"><mac.mccarthy@gmail.com></a><br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, February 7, 2019 7:04:16 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] A question for everyone, particularly Esther Schindler<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We had a copy editor at Infoworld, "Jill," who edited for space by deleting the last sentence in a product review. Unfortunately, that sentence was the punchline for a joke. When I complained, she simply replied, "I didn't think it was funny."<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Editing can be maddening.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Mac<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 3:58 PM Tom Geller <<a href="mailto:tom@tgeller.com" target="_blank">tom@tgeller.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Oh, I have a good one about deleted ledes. (Getting deleded?) <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For my 2013 <a href="http://Lynda.com" target="_blank">Lynda.com</a> video course "Writing Articles" (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/learning/writing-articles" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/learning/writing-articles</a>), I (of course) wrote a dummy article to study. Then in a video that shows how to construct an article, I say:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"Then after everything else is done, go back and revisit that first paragraph to make it even stronger. One common trick is to simply delete that first sentence and then see if it's reads any better. A lot of writers, including me, need a sentence or two to get into the swing of things."<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sounds good, right? Except that the producers said, "O.K., do that. Delete the first sentence." I... hadn't planned for that. Luckily, the piece still worked without it. I schooled myself!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Menlo,serif"><br>---<br>Tom Geller * Writer & Video/journalist * <a href="http://tomgeller.com" target="_blank">http://tomgeller.com</a><br> Rotterdam, The Netherlands, +31 (0)6 87071468<br> Oberlin, Ohio * +1-415-317-1805<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Menlo,serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-- <br>Ipg-smz mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ipg-smz@netpress.org" target="_blank">Ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br><a href="http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org" target="_blank">http://netpress.org/mailman/listinfo/ipg-smz_netpress.org</a><u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">-- <u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Mac McCarthy<u></u><u></u></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Get my<b> "Wine Tasting 101" - Kindle Edition only $1.99</b><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Verdana,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,238)"><a href="http://amzn.to/13GWHPI" target="_blank">http://amzn.to/13GWHPI</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Amazon Prime</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> members! <u>Borrow this book</u> <u>FREE</u>!<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br><br><u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote><pre>-- <u></u><u></u></pre><pre>Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. <a href="mailto:gabe@gabegold.com" target="_blank">gabe@gabegold.com</a><u></u><u></u></pre><pre>3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433<u></u><u></u></pre><pre>LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegold</a> Twitter: GabeG0<u></u><u></u></pre></div></div>-- <br>
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