dissed by the gray lady
Is your day to day gig being dissed in the New York Times? Cuz mine is!
Papers object to a requirement that they allow The A.P. to apply its electronic tags to the articles they publish in order for the papers to qualify for the discounted fees.
The tags are bits of computer code, invisible to readers, that are intended to make Web pages rank high in Internet searches. While The A.P. says that most member papers have signed up for the tagging program, the largest newspapers, including The New York Times, have developed their own tagging systems and so far have not switched to The A.P.’s.
I think “bits of computer code” is the most antiquated sounding description of something technical I have heard in a long time. Also,tags really aren’t just for high Google rankings, but who am I to bicker?
3 Comments so far
1. Heidi wrote on October 20th, 2008 at 11:32 am
Letter to the Editor!
Will a supervisory type do this? Could you, without it being a conflict of interest or whatever?
2. jennybento wrote on October 20th, 2008 at 11:35 am
I don’t know if it would be frowned upon or not. I think mainly people here would not care.
3. Li-Shen wrote on October 22nd, 2008 at 2:08 pm
i’m glad to know that i wasn’t the only person who was annoyed by the “bits of computer code” part (and the ap bashing of course)