what vertical I was most comfortable writing
I'm staring blankly too.
Well, a gathering is brie, mellow song stylings; shindig, dip, less mellow song stylings, perhaps a large amount of malt beverage, and hootenanny, well, it's chock full of hoot, just a little bit of nanny.
Oz ,'Beneath You'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Gudanov - Jan 24, 2013 6:35:21 am PST #8809 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
msbelle - Jan 24, 2013 6:38:15 am PST #8810 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
seriously. wtf does that mean?
Jesse - Jan 24, 2013 6:39:43 am PST #8811 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Woooo, Amy!
Vertical = content area, no?
Jessica - Jan 24, 2013 6:44:11 am PST #8812 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ugh, "verticals" is one of my most hated industry jargon terms. It's one of those "let's take a perfectly good adjective and pretend it's a noun that means something else entirely!" things that just gets under my skin in the worst way. But good on you for getting the job!!
amyth - Jan 24, 2013 6:44:21 am PST #8813 of 30001
And none of us deserving the cruelty or the grace -- Leonard Cohen
Woo, Amy!!!! YAY!
I have no idea what that means, either.
Laura - Jan 24, 2013 6:49:53 am PST #8814 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
Woo, Amy! And much employment ~ma to those in precarious positions, or between positions.
THIS: "How to deal with a mansplainer starring Hillary Clinton in gifs" [link] is sheer genius frosting to that.
Seriously, watching Clinton deal with these fools was most entertaining. She is such a better woman than I. Rand Paul would be in pain today had I been sitting there.
meara - Jan 24, 2013 6:53:21 am PST #8815 of 30001
Vertical writing? Whaat? But yay Amy job!
Sue - Jan 24, 2013 6:55:47 am PST #8816 of 30001
hip deep in pie
Congrats Amy!
Steph L. - Jan 24, 2013 6:57:50 am PST #8817 of 30001
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
They cut our production time by more than half, increased our page counts by more than half, and refused to hire people to replace the three people we lost last year, and did it without even telling us about it before they announced it to our customers, and now - NOW - they're asking *us* to "brainstorm" and "think outside the box" to figure out how to get all the work done on time. (Note, they don't really want our input. They just want to be able to say they asked for our input. Then when we complain, they can say, well we asked you for solutions and you didn't give us any!) As a result, I now have 33 articles that all have to be edited, layout done, graphics fixed, math checked, references checked, sent to authors, author's changes incorporated, back to author, rinse repeat until he's happy, and published on the Web in final form... all by next Thursday.
We seriously have the same job. And I feel like I'm otherwise totally unemployable, so I don't try to look for anything else.
Tom Scola - Jan 24, 2013 6:58:18 am PST #8818 of 30001
hwæt
If you're going to be writing vertically, then I suggest you get one of these.