MetaFilter posts tagged with editor

whole lotta uploading.

sgt.serenity — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:25:00 -0800

Who needs Photoshop when you can have Pixlr ? I have no idea if this works ( surely it takes a long time to upload images ), but it at least looks interesting - an open source competitor to photoshop would be welcome.

“Please do the necessary things to stop production of the book.”

sock it to me monkey — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:51:18 -0800

"“If the book were to be published as it is in its present edited form, I may never write another story, that’s how closely, God Forbid, some of those stories are to my sense of regaining my health and mental well-being.” The New York Times reported today that Raymond Carver's widow, Tess Gallagher, is pushing to republish the stories in Carver's acclaimed 1981 breakout collection, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love," in their original, unedited form. Carver's editor at the time, Gordon Lish, is acknowledged to have aggressively edited many stories this collection almost to the point of "a wholesale rewrite." The two examples provided of endings before and after the Lish edits [pdf; see pgs 5-7] raise unsettling questions.

According to the Internet ...

Happydaz — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:15:30 -0800

Wikipedia claims it has an accuracy rate similar to that of Encyclopedia Britannica. But are Wikipedia articles accurate enough to be relied on? The media frequently cite to the free encyclopedia despite a chance the information might be wildly inaccurate. In an effort to improve the accuracy and quality of articles, Wikipedia's internal editorial team has assessed and graded the content of 300,000 articles (out of 1.8 million articles in English alone.) One obvious way to improve accuracy is to reveal editor names, such as on the Citizendium (as previously posted on MeFi.) A simpler idea, however, might rely on a color scheme to automatically alert users to the accuracy of the article (or lack thereof).

New Online Image Editor

youarenothere — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:21:03 -0800

Pixoh is a new online simple image editor in the vein of PXN8. Pixoh, however, allows quick image import and export from Flickr or upload any other webpage via bookmarklet. At the moment, only the most basic of editing tools are available, but the creators - in the spirit of Web2.0 openness - promise new features based on user votes. Effect for MeFi? Oversized inline images won't know what hit 'em.

The Corrections

matteo — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:15:50 -0800

The Grammarian. Miss Gould, as she was known to everyone at the New Yorker, died last week, at the age of eighty-seven. She worked at the magazine for fifty-four years, most of them as its Grammarian (a title invented for her). A typical “Gould proof” was filled with the lightly pencilled tracery of her objections, suggestions, and abbreviated queries: “emph?” “ind.,” “mean this?”. Writes David Remnick: "She confronted the galley proofs of writers as various as Joseph Mitchell, J. D. Salinger, Janet Flanner--well, everyone, really.". More inside.

Pardon hyperbole

31d1 — Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:52:08 -0800

A multiplayer text editor . Free and realtime. I think this is my new favorite thing.

Letters to the Editor, By Jack O'Neil, Sewickley

filchyboy — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 22:34:20 -0800

Letters to the Editor, By Jack O'Neil, Sewickley

adrober — Fri, 15 Mar 2002 08:39:14 -0800

In light of Steven Speilberg's editing of the soon to be re-re-released "E.T.", Slate offers its own (mostly funny) editing suggestions for the remaining Speilberg canon. By the way, is anyone else repulsed by what Speilberg's doing?

gen — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:11:43 -0800

Business magazine editor sleeps with interviewee. Harvard Business Review editor Suzy Wetlaufer interviews retired GE CEO Jack Welch for HBR. They begin a torrid romance (Welch is, of course, still married to his second wife.) Other editors find out about the romance and Wetlaufer cancels her story. Other HBR editors call for her resignation and the managing editor merely reassigns her. 2 other HBR editors quit in disgust. You can't make this stuff up!
Additional coverage via Financial Times; Boston Globe; MSNBC.