From the July 14 Globe and Mail:

The Globe and Mail's award-winning series Talking to the Taliban has been nominated for another prize, this time for an Emmy Award.

The nominees for the 30th Annual News and Documentary Emmys were announced Tuesday in New York. The Globe project was recognized in the New Approaches to News and Documentary category, along with work by Reuters, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

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Rule One: Study what I do here, and then do the opposite (just kidding -- sort of).

More seriously, Reuters' Felix Salmon offers a raft of tips, but I'll excerpt his 'what-not-to-do' section: (seen first on Twitter)

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The BBC's Peter Horrocks on how the world of journalism is changing.

His thoughts are contained in a chapter of a book by the BBC College of Journalism entitled The Future of Journalism (available online for free):

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Maclean's Anne Kingston tried to play Globeandmail-ologist and discern the real reasons for the termination of Globe and Mail editor Edward Greenspon, dispatched by publisher Philip Crawley.

For background, here's my original post from the time of the firing on May 25.

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Saw this one on Twitter; a clip from the 1999 film Three Kings:

And yet another reworking of the Hitler-freaking-out-in-the-bunker scene from Downfall:

While it isn't Jacko-related, I always smirk at this Downfall adaptation.

The Toronto Star's David Olive says the biggest problem facing newspapers (and he includes supper-hour newscasts in the mix) is that they are boring.

His solution? Apparently, book-length articles on major social problems of the day!

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This article has been batted around the Twittersphere. It's entitled Freemium and freeconomics.

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An amusing video effort from CollegeHumor.com. NSFW.

But no. On July 4, 2004, the Lexington Herald-Leader apologized for, uh, not covering the civil rights movement back in the day.

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On Twitter at about 12:06 a.m.:

Deets to come in the a.m. Beddy-bye time for Bill.

Addendum

From the CP story on CTV.ca:

Details of the tentative agreement won't be released until a union ratification vote on Monday.

Brad Honywill, president of Local 87-M of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, said the union will recommend acceptance of the agreement.

"It was one of the more difficult sets of negotiations that I've seen and I think that reflects the changing economic times and people's attempts to grapple with that," Honywill said.

Double addendum

I would like to thank folks for ignoring the fact I mis-spelled 'tentative' in the headline. Actually, I'd rather do that than come to grips with the grim possibility that no one reads my posts. :)

Enjoy the barbecuing and fireworks, fellow Canuckistanis.

Here's a CTV News poll that shows we love ourselves to death, even if we don't show it enough. Yep, 90 per cent of Canadians think Canada is the best country in the world! Say, doesn't the Bloc gather about 10 per cent support nationally? :^)

And here's a few tunes I blipped on Twitter: Gordon Lighfoot's Canadian Railroad Trilogy and a Guess Who medley -- Runnin' Back to Saskatoon/Share the Land.