The recent totally awesome Old Spice social media campaign did not convince me to buy their product. That’s not because I didn’t like the advertising – in fact, I loved it. And it’s not even because they didn’t answer my question. Not a big deal. They were busy, and there were better questions. I discovered

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Call me a grumpy old codger, but I liked the old way better. For one thing, I used to have at least a rudimentary idea of how a newspaper got produced: On deadline, drunks with cigars wrote stories that were edited by constipated but knowledgeable people, then printed on paper by enormous machines operated by

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However, I never set out to work in journalism. From “A Change” by Khoi Vinh, who resigned as design director of NYTimes.com, and posted those words (and more) today. I can relate to that quote.

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