A day in the life of a dish

The pledge drive is over, but the light workload continues. Today’s Daily Dish consists of:

Headlines: 34 words.
Quotes from Democratic Underground: 7 words.
Quotes for yet another whatever-award nominee: 46 words.
Quotes from newspaper articles: 330 words.
Quotes from a BBC listener in a call-in show: 61 words.
“Original” content: 765 words.

Original content: 60%, CTRL-C/CTRL-V: 40%.

Update: Likely challenged by our analysis, Andrew added many posts this morning. Survey says:

Headlines: 46 words.
Quotes from newspaper articles: 60 words.
Quotes for yet another whatever-award nominees: 959 words.
Original content: 331 words.

 

Comments: 4

 
 
 

Working hard or hardly working?

Sadly, No! on getting your money’s worth at the Daily Dish….

 
 

Earn That Money, Honey

Sadly, No! shows you exactly what you’re getting for your dollar over at the Daily Dish. I suppose I should have given this the Garrison Keillor Award, based on something Keillor said five years ago as a throwaway comment…but I…

 
 

Fundraising Drives

While hiking, I stayed at the Kincora Hikers’ Hostel, run by a kind man named Bob Peoples. When asked why he does not charge guests, he said that he runs his hostel as a hobby, and that his goal is…

 
 

Nice work if you can get it.

 
 

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