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FinnMacCool · 03-20-2008, 11:13 PM

Does anybody know if this publisher is relevant enough to put on a resume? My mother submitted something to that magazine without my permission and they published it. There was no payment involved. I don't think its a scam but I'm still not sure if I should be excited about this. Should I?

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Mike C · 03-21-2008, 02:37 AM

Get excited, it's a credit. Put it on your resumé.

FinnMacCool · 03-21-2008, 10:07 AM

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Get excited, it's a credit. Put it on your resumé.

Nice Mike. If you say this, then it's gotta be true. Good looks.

lin · 03-21-2008, 11:06 AM

Sue your mother. More money in it.

lin · 03-21-2008, 11:09 AM

Start a file...it can be a simple text file... to save URL's from you web-published stories.

(Sometimes you have to wait until the current issue is outdated in order to link to a permanent archive address)

Keep the URL along with a tag to let you know what the story and publication were at a glance.

You might even consider making an HTML link for the URL.

This gives you a list of "clips" you can send to publishers, put in a signature file, etc.

Mike C · 03-21-2008, 06:27 PM

Remember when 'clips' actually involved the use of scissors?

Modest Me · 03-22-2008, 03:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Mike C

Remember when 'clips' actually involved the use of scissors?

no? gosh, you're so old

jk

lin · 03-22-2008, 11:56 AM

I ususally used an exacto knife and cut them up to arrange and paste on paper for copying. (Remember when "cut and paste"... ah you know?

Mike C · 03-22-2008, 12:27 PM

Yup, I used to be a camera operator (pre computer) preparing clip art amongst other things, which came in books. Copy for the magazine was typed up on golfball typewriters and literally cut and pasted into place on paper sheets. Then I'd photograph the pages, make big negatives and use them to make plates for the presses.

lin · 03-23-2008, 04:06 AM

It seems pretty nuts, looking back on it. Cameras the size of automobiles just to take pictures of little letters made by shining light through film. Weird.

One of my first papers I typed all the text, then did corrections by cutting out individual letters and pasting them over the mistakes. Using "lipstick glue". On a light table made from a storm window over two sawhorses with a Salvation Army lamp under it and bond paper taped to the underside.

In a a back bedroom that was otherwise full of kilos of marijuana and illicit guns. Say what you will, you can't improve THOSE with computers.

Mike C · 03-23-2008, 07:17 AM

Totally nuts. I remember the day the compositor arrived. A computer the size of a desk with a 9" screen whose sole purpose was to print out strips of paper with text on... ready to be pasted onto the sheet with the rest. It was the beginning of the end for my job, but we thought it was amazing.

But computers can't improve, just change the way things are done, and make them too easy. What a department of 10 people used to do, one guy can now do on a laptop. And I think we've lost a lot in the process.

Just Jim · 03-23-2008, 09:10 AM

Lost what, Mike ? The "Good old days ?"

Hey, I was there too. A friend published a magazine, 80 pages every month. The production took more time than the editing. Then they went all digital, and the production layout was all visible on the screen.

Much better.

lin · 03-23-2008, 12:09 PM

Oh, I think Mike and were saying the days were old, not good. By any means. It did kind of piss me off when I first realized that a teenager with a desktop publishing program could do more than what I'd learned to do over years...in like 15 minutes.

Mike C · 03-23-2008, 05:50 PM

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Much better.

In some ways, though not for the 9 people out of a job. And I do feel that when you take out a creative team, and replace them with a spotty teenager with a mac, you lose something.

We put out a weekly newspaper and 2 magazines, and on more than a few occasions we would pull a 48 hour shift, napping where we could, to get them out on time. We had a passion for it, and I think some of the passion is what's lost now everything is done in a more remote way.