Here are some of Charlotte's best Facebook photos from summer 2009. Above, Charlotte's Jana Foreman perches on "The Ledge," one of the glass boxes extending from Chicago's Willis (maiden name Sears) Tower.
Charlotte's Leigh Rose captured these two turtles having fun at the Kiawa Island nature museum. (She also tells me Facebook's lightning-quick targeted ads have already started hitting her with turtle-themed advertising. Presumably not for intimate products.)
Becky Tofaute Johnson snapped this natural wonder and its luminous architect.
Susan Hancock showed that down-home pleasures can make the best, most, mouth-watering vacation photos. 
Carolyn Peters captured this iconic view of New York from a cruise ship.
Carolyn Peters captured this iconic view of New York from a cruise ship.
What are you doing this summer? The best way to show me is to friend me on Facebook here,
and tag me in your favorite photo.
how do I get a skyscraper picture!?!!!!
ReplyDeleteso I can be famous on facebook
I wouldn't trust the CO with anything relating to Facebook after they royally screwed those teachers a few months back...
ReplyDeleteWhenever I get on a structure like the thing on the sears tower I always think .... This was made by the lowest bidder. ikkes
ReplyDelete"I wouldn't trust the CO with anything relating to Facebook after they royally screwed those teachers a few months back..."
ReplyDeleteIt's not the Observer's fault that teachers were too stupid to figure out and/or use Facebook's privacy settings. You can set it so only your friends see your info and not the entire world. Really, it says something about the teachers and not the Observer.
If there were any doubt why The Observer and journalism are dying, Jeff Elder and this column removes it. Professional journalists have long derided "telephone-book" journalism (get the name of every person in town in the paper at least once a year, even if you have to print the telephone book). This column is the epitome of pandering, follow-the-herd, vacuous rubbish. Who better to practice it than Jeff Elder. Twittering? Facebook? Empty people with nothing to say, speaking to empty people with nothing better to do than listen. Sad. Very sad.
ReplyDelete"If there were any doubt why The Observer and journalism are dying, Jeff Elder and this column removes it."
ReplyDeleteUmmm...this is a blog that just happens to be a news website. Blogs are much different than news. If you think the CO shouldn't have blogs, then you need to get out of the old mentality of what newspapers once were. I mean, we don't write on cave walls or use stone tablets anymore.
"I mean, we don't write on cave walls or use stone tablets anymore."
ReplyDeleteThanks. I needed help in making my point. As someone with a vested, monetary interest in The Observer, someone who argued 15 years ago that newspapers could not survive by giving away their content (I was overruled and hooted down), I think maybe we should go back to stone tablets - or at least their modern incarnation, newsprint. Practice good journalism (quoting local TV stations as news sources three times this morning is not good journalism) and either ignore the ignorant or attempt to educate them. Maybe that'll be a start on the journey back. Not this peddling of mindless blather.
Newspapers are selling advertising and making some money. Some papers are doing alright selling online subscriptions. Yes, they receive less money but also have less overhead (paper and ink cost money, and you have to pay people to print and deliver them, they waste fuel doing so, etc).
ReplyDeleteThe CO is just changing with the times. You'll find just about all magazines and newspapers offering online blogs, even the most reputable and even conservative ones.
Your point that newspapers could not survive just proves the point that the printed versions are not as relevant today.
This blog is actually a nice break from a lot of the doom and gloom.
"The CO is just changing with the times. You'll find just about all magazines and newspapers offering online blogs, even the most reputable and even conservative ones."
ReplyDeleteYes. That's true. And virtually all newspapers, "even the most reputable and even conservatives ones," and magazines, are in trouble. I know. I work for one. Question: How much are you willing to pay for this terrific on-line experience we're having? (Why am I here on my day off? Good question. Maybe it's in the futile hope that The Observer will see the folly of spending lord-knows how much shareholders' money sending journalism washouts to California for a year to study fads that will vanish in less time than that).
Facebook pictures...how controversial! Lets see if we can link this to all the world's problems.
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ReplyDelete"That lady on the skyscraper has to be photoshopped."
She's just trying to get as far away from Obama's healthcare as possible.
I've never subscribed to any newspaper...waste of trees. I buy the Observer on Sunday for the coupons only.
ReplyDeleteThe picture is not photoshopped. Notice the seem directly behind her? The ledge is enclosed in a glass trasnparent room:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/us_sears_tower_ledge
The CN Tower in Toronto also has a glass floor at about 1100 feet. Pretty cool.
the lady on the sears tower (i mean Willis tower) is not doing any thing wrong. there is actually a new sky deck that you can walk out on. it is glass floored. funny how that person wanted her to be fired....get your facts straight.
ReplyDeleteYou go Jana!!!!!
ReplyDeletegood for Jana.....
ReplyDeleteand good for the teachers that got caught...they bring down the rest of us in the profession.....
I think it all rocks.
ReplyDeleteJeff is so facey tweety cool, man.
ReplyDeleteThe problem with where journalism is heading is not blogs. Of course news should be on the internet and blogs instead of stone tablets. The problem is that most blogs are not news and not interesting, but boring, unoriginal, brainless junk. This one is no exception. I have learned nothing from Elder's first three posts, and I know I will learn nothing from anything he writes in the future. The fact the CO is paying him to write about social networking on a daily basis at a time when the CO has cut dozens of real reporting jobs shows no one in there knows what the hell they are doing.
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