Trib Media Mention

February 2, 2004 10:04 AM

"Metafilter. Now you know where I get a least half my story ideas." -- Chicago Tribune features writer Maureen Ryan, listing her 10 favorite websites in a guest appearance on co-worker Eric Zorn's weblog. [Trib login: gapers/gapers]
posted by me3dia to MetaFilter-Related at 10:04 AM (24 comments total)

If we had a buck for each journalist who gets stuff from here, we'd all have thoroughbred ponies. She seems fun, tho.
posted by amberglow at 10:25 AM on February 2, 2004

Whoa. Thanks for catching this, I would have never seen it.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 10:42 AM on February 2, 2004

It might be coincidental - and some stories get aired on many, many sites of course so attribution is problematic - but I've noticed an uncanny pattern whereby stories on Metafilter pop up on Public Radio one or two weeks later.

If at all possible, I prefer to cut out the middleman and - besides - I enjoy reading many different and clashing spins on a given story. Public Radio generally has the same old same old tired "slighty liberal but usually oh-so-eager to kiss the asses of the powers that be" approach.
posted by troutfishing at 10:54 AM on February 2, 2004

If we had a buck for each journalist who gets stuff from here, we'd all have thoroughbred ponies.

True, but not many would name us as a source. Pretty nice shout-out, I thought.
posted by me3dia at 11:05 AM on February 2, 2004

yeah, you know, she really likes us.
and Gawker.
and Fark, too


cool!
posted by matteo at 11:11 AM on February 2, 2004

She's not alone in this, of course.
posted by adamgreenfield at 12:05 PM on February 2, 2004

smell you, adam!
posted by amberglow at 12:28 PM on February 2, 2004

the password you entered is incorrect.

gee, thanks.
posted by sgt.serenity at 3:07 PM on February 2, 2004

No Edinburgh date yet for Jonathan Richman either--still only 10 PM at The Renfrew Ferry in Glasgow on April 8th. You just can't win for losing, fanboy.
posted by y2karl at 4:14 PM on February 2, 2004

Wow, Adam, so did the Philly Inquierer contact you before printing your stuff to their site? Or did they just go with your Creative Commons license?
posted by gen at 5:18 PM on February 2, 2004

The latter. I didn't hear a peep of it until one of my readers mailed me about it. Actually, I don't even think they were that sophisticated about it, I think they just figured it fell under "fair use."

Woulda been polite to let me know, though, huh?
posted by adamgreenfield at 7:24 PM on February 2, 2004

I promise to use my powers only for good.

Publish this: Fuck Bush.
posted by five fresh fish at 7:36 PM on February 2, 2004

matt , can i change my name to fanboy ?
posted by sgt.serenity at 7:42 PM on February 2, 2004

Metafilter: Whoa. Thanks for catching this, I would have never seen it.
posted by crasspastor at 8:45 PM on February 2, 2004

Woulda been polite to let me know, though, huh?

I thought the same when I saw this--I got syndicated via Sheila Lennon.
You at least got credit for what you wrote.
posted by y2karl at 1:31 AM on February 3, 2004

LOL. I linked up the Tiptree piece, BTW, and woulda linked you as source had I something to link to.
posted by adamgreenfield at 4:39 AM on February 3, 2004

... and woulda linked you as source had I something to link to.

The world has enough quirky opinions to ignore as it is.
posted by y2karl at 6:57 AM on February 3, 2004

the password you entered is incorrect.

Sorry, the Trib finally caught on to that "public" account and killed it.
posted by me3dia at 8:55 AM on February 3, 2004

This raises an interesting technical question for me -

How hard would it be to write a script which would take the whole body of my commentary on Metafilter and - paragraph by paragraph - run Net searches to look for close or identical matchups ?

Technically, this is way beyond me. Not for many here on this site though.

Ask Metafilter
posted by troutfishing at 10:08 AM on February 3, 2004

Next week in the Philadelphia Inquirer:

"I'm going apeshit!"
--Adam Greenfield
posted by soyjoy at 10:08 AM on February 3, 2004

LOL. We can only hope.
posted by adamgreenfield at 12:09 PM on February 3, 2004

stories on Metafilter pop up on Public Radio one or two weeks later

I noticed just the opposite, where stories on NPR end up on Metafilter one or two hours later.
posted by piskycritter at 12:46 PM on February 3, 2004

Heh.
posted by me3dia at 2:10 PM on February 3, 2004

piskycritter - well, that happens quite a bit as well.
posted by troutfishing at 9:05 PM on February 3, 2004