Romenesko Should Explain This, Because I Can’t — UPDATE
Jim Romenesko has been the subject of two previous posts (here and here) about a distasteful and, to many (including a Vietnam vet who e-mailed me), offensive cartoon he linked to at the San Francisco Chronicle a few weeks ago that used the coffins of dead American soldiers as a backdrop:
Mr. Romenesko was discussed in a free Wall Street Journal piece on bloggers last week (HT Nasty, Brutish & Short, among others; the link may require a subscription at some future date). The work habits described were, to say the least, interesting:
Some bloggers thrive on the manic pace. Getaways for Jim Romenesko, host of the popular media blog bearing his name, consist of a Friday afternoon drive every month or so from his home in the Chicago suburbs to visit friends in Milwaukee. The 85-mile trip should last around 90 minutes. For Mr. Romenesko, it takes nearly four hours — because he stops at eight different Starbucks on the way to update his site.
The longest Mr. Romenesko has refrained from posting on his site, which gets about 70,000 hits a day, was for one week three years ago on the insistence of site owner, the Poynter Institute. He hasn’t taken a vacation in seven years. “The column’s called Romenesko,” he says. “I just feel it should be Romenesko” who writes it.
Eight updates in four hours? Let’s be “conservative,” and assume that Jimbo updates about 20 times in an 8-hour day when he’s not encumbered by the distraction of having to drive. That would mean he has had over 500 chances (over 25 days x 20 per day) to update the Left Rail Archive since it was last updated on August 9. The Vietnam vet whose e-mail to Romenesko objecting to the cartoon was never posted would especially like to know (I would suggest that he deserves to know) if Romenesko removed his link to the questionable cartoon. We will not know until Jimbo updates that Left Rail Archive.
But he STILL hasn’t updated. Why?
UPDATE, Oct. 9 — Sometime after mid-September, an update occurred. When it did, the archive of the week of August 7-11 was missing ALL of August 9 and 10. Can I make sense of this? No.
