Ben Rooney has the easiest job in the world
Ben Rooney compiles "Today on the web" for the Guardian newspaper.
This is what I imagine his working day consists of:
10:00AM Get up.
10:30AM Read the papers. Find some semi-interesting person or story in the news.
11:00AM Type it into Technorati. Probably Google Blogsearch it these days too. Maybe check to see who's back-linked to stories on the Guardian site.
11:30AM Spend a few minutes cutting-and-pasting what he finds into a template.
12:00PM Send finished template to editor. Have lunch.
So...
Abu Hamza Obesity Bird Flu Sion Jenkins U2 Chip and Pin Child Maintenance Evo Morales IT Crowd
Did you get that Rooney? My little Buzz-word Bomb has brought you here! We're on to you Rooney! No longer are the bloggers of the world going to put up with you growing fat from the hand-crafted content you've stolen from our sites! I dare you to quote from this blog post! I dare you!!
This is what I imagine his working day consists of:
10:00AM Get up.
10:30AM Read the papers. Find some semi-interesting person or story in the news.
11:00AM Type it into Technorati. Probably Google Blogsearch it these days too. Maybe check to see who's back-linked to stories on the Guardian site.
11:30AM Spend a few minutes cutting-and-pasting what he finds into a template.
12:00PM Send finished template to editor. Have lunch.
So...
Abu Hamza Obesity Bird Flu Sion Jenkins U2 Chip and Pin Child Maintenance Evo Morales IT Crowd
Did you get that Rooney? My little Buzz-word Bomb has brought you here! We're on to you Rooney! No longer are the bloggers of the world going to put up with you growing fat from the hand-crafted content you've stolen from our sites! I dare you to quote from this blog post! I dare you!!
I'm sure I had a similar rant about the Guardian and blogs a few months back, but as always Bex, you phrase it better than I
Excellent, I was wondering that...
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