Secrets of the City

Also check out Paul Schmelzer’s take on the cPod.

Compiling stories for print is a pretty time-consuming job. The last thing I’d want to do after it was finished is start talking about it with people. It’s been my experience that once I was finished, the story was flushed from memory.

I disagree. As a writer, i find there’s often so much more I’d want to say but space won’t allow it.

My thoughts from MinMon:

Yeah, a lot of lame stuff about this. You can’t even rewind. So a new player and RSS feed are the bare minimum tech-wise.

I don’t mind the phone call audio all that much, you hear that on public radio, but they should strive to bring writers into the office and record on a microphone.

About the name. Why invent a lame term like “cPod”? Please, we have enough pods and madeup words running around. City Pages podcast would suffice.

Overall I give it a D+. Fix the tech and it’s in C-range.

A show devoted to Dara and TC food? Now you’ve got my interest!

They should have called it a beta release. Just putting something on your Web page like that is so Web 1.0.

I disagree. As a writer, i find there’s often so much more I’d want to say but space won’t allow it.

Depends on what you’re writing about. I’d say in a newswriting/feature story process, make it tight. Don’t waste words. Tell them what your going to tell them; tell them; and then tell them what you told them.

Don’t fall in love with it, just get it done.

I spoke briefy with a CP reporter on hookahs and the statewide ban. It will be interesting to see how that story comes out, especially with their history of portraying this issue from the side that buys the big ads in the free weekly. I hope I’m wrong, but we will see. I treated the reporter fairly and gave him several good leads. We’ll see where it goes.

The Rake, Minnesota Daily and Strib have already covered this…

Oh, dammit, bob, you guys got hookahs banned, too?

Just stop. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

Either we fight hookahs over here, or we’ll have to fight them over there…