I love this: A Weblog that's new to me, Yes But No But Yes, has a fun feature called "Where Are They Now" (and also "Did They Get Hot?"), in which they trace what's happened to actors and other entertainers from our past.
It's pretty awesome. Because I not only needed to know what happened to the cast of "The White Shadow," but of the original "Bad News Bears."
Engleberg (whoops, I always thought it was Englebert, as in "Don't jump in, Englebert, you'll flood the valley!") is now a sales manager in Dallas. Of course he is. And Kelly Leak still looks cooler than the rest of them. Of course he does.
(Via Metafilter.)
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Dear Gael,
Sorry for intruding here. I just wanted to invite you and your readers to come check out Orato, which aims to be the first content site exclusively devoted to first-person journalism. That is, stories which are told entirely in the first-person voices of eyewitnesses to major events such as the London Subway bombings and day-to-day life in the streets of Baghdad. We’ll also feature the rants and soliloquies of interesting people in the news.
I don’t want to let the cat out of the bag, but we’re putting together some really great stories on a range of topics: Current Events, Entertainment, Sports, Health and Science, Travel and Adventure, Bad Media (where we watch the watchdog) Love and Friendship, Business and Technology, the ever-mysterious Mystery heading, and something creatively called ‘Miscellaneous’ for when we can’t think of anywhere else to put it.
Check the Contributor's Registry which is already online; it’s Orato’s call to journalists and enthusiastic writers from around the world to get involved. Orato will combine the work of professional journalists and “citizen journalists”: people from 122 countries have already registered and sent us story ideas.
We’ll commission and pay for feature stories in the first-person voice, but we will make it possible for anyone, for a small fee, to publish their own stories on the site. And we’ll regularly evaluate pay-to-publish stories that are highly rate by readers, moving the best into the feature window and paying their authors the same rates we pay commissioned authors. We’re hoping to foster ethical practices and quality reporting in this new medium, and above all, create a forum for great storytelling.
In the registry, we have included sample stories to demonstrate what we mean by first-person news, so please, take a minute to look at the samples, register, and send us your story ideas. And please, feel free to contact us if you have questions.
Cecilia Jamasmie
Assignment Editor
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