That is outstanding!

Rcade utilizes Internets technologicalmization at it's best.

Reuters is unaffiliated with AP. They're competing with them. (Incidentally, I read somewhere this week that Reuters was begun by a guy named Reuter who delivered news via carrier pigeon.)

(Incidentally, I read somewhere this week that Reuters was begun by a guy named Reuter who delivered news via carrier pigeon.)

I wonder how they got the news out that the pigeon had been shot?

Rcade

Reuters is unaffiliated with AP. They're competing with them. (Incidentally, I read somewhere this week that Reuters was begun by a guy named Reuter who delivered news via carrier pigeon.)

I'll try and use only Reuters stories wherever possible since they aren't with AP. And you were right about Reuter using homing pigeons at one time. How interesting. Here's a excerpt about Reuter from Wikipedia:

...Paul Julius Reuter noticed that, with the electric telegraph, news no longer required days or weeks to travel long distances. In 1850, the 34-year-old Reuter was based in Aachen, Germany, close to the Dutch and Belgian border, and began using the newly opened BerlinAachen telegraph line to send news to Berlin. But there was a 76-mile (122 km) gap in the line between Aachen and Brussels. Reuter spotted the opportunity to speed up news between Brussels and Berlin by using homing pigeons to bridge the gap in the line....

In 1851, Reuter moved to London. After failures in 1847 and 1850, attempts by the Submarine Telegraph Company to lay an underwater telegraph cable from Dover to Calais appeared promising. Reuter set up his "Submarine Telegraph" office in October 1851 just before the opening of the cable in November, and agreed to a contract with the London Stock Exchange to provide stock prices from the continental exchanges in return for access to the London prices, which he supplied to Paris brokers.

In 1865, Reuter's private firm was restructured and became a limited company called Reuter's Telegram Company. Reuter had been naturalised as a British subject in 1857.

Also, make sure that headlines containing either "Obama", "Barack" or "Messiah" also use positive action verbs, like the words "cures", "parts" or "resolves".

Ex:

Obama Cures AIDS, Blames GOP

Barack Parts Flooded Mississippi, Country Saved

Messiah Resolves to Only Lie to Whitey

And that's one to grow on.....

Cool. It works!

This'll certainly help matters.

Spud tends to get wordy.

Still no word on modern science breaking through the impenatrable 40 word headline barrier?

There's a team in Switzerland who are doing some wonderful research in this field.

* subtly sarcastic tone off *

Be Well.

/Entering the ever-evolving Drudge Retort like ya do,
stage left.

"Still no word on modern science breaking through the impenatrable 40 word headline barrier?"

Rcade raised it to 50 characters, Spud.

Rcade raised it to 50 characters, Spud.

~Nullifidian

A blessing on the blog-gods house and all who dwell within it!

Woo Hoo!

We do not deserve such munificence but we accept it humbly and gratefully.

Be Well.

what if we have permission from the author to use the entire text of their work? i've found that to be most useful and most authors are more than willing to have their work spread about the www. more often than not they fall all over themselves at the request. with proper attribution of course.

how would we handle that one, rcade?

what if we have permission from the author to use the entire text of their work?

Put "reprinted with permission" somewhere in the blog post. If the permission you get is from a Creative Commons license, make that clear too. I have to make some changes on this end if people start reprinting CC-licensed work.

WELL its about damn time that you got some help to people on the DR. I hear tell that you have SOME people who write a little crazy. man some of them need some real help................lol

For those of you who write more that 400 words in here really need to get a fucking life. What a bunch of losers. leave your house and go get some sun and fresh air.

Well, off to the links.

it's FOUR HUNDRED CHARACTERS! not words. i wish i were going golfing.

"For those of you who write more that 400 words in here really need to get a fucking life. What a bunch of losers. leave your house and go get some sun and fresh air."

Admit it- anything over two hundred words and your lips begin to ache.

Admit it- anything over two hundred words and your lips begin to ache.

Posted by MaryTylerWhore

you're not holding your mouth right. :)