I've been on a calendar update binge, inputting events that other people have mailed to us (and also going out and grabbing a few on my own). The results are in the updated list at right.

Incidentally, it's one of the non-updated items that has me most excited. I'd meant to blog earlier about the great attraction of having APME and SND slated for a giant group hug in Las Vegas come 2008. I procrastinated on the blog entry for way too long, but the event has been sitting in the back of my mind like a song by the Supremes.

This event will literally be one of the places where the future of newspapers is really decided. While academics love to debate journalistic ideals (as they should), it's the actual managing editors (APME) and designers (SND) who determine whether those ideals get put into action, and whether anyone with a short attention span reads them, respectively.

Which brings me to my final bit of this entry: The Two Pleas.

Plea 1 - Find a way to go to this event (it's waaaay down there at the bottom of the calendar). Since most readers of this blog aren't AP managing editors, that probably means joining SND.

Plea 2 - Submit newspaper advertising industry events! We've got a wonderful slate of calendar items for the newsroom side of things, thanks to reader submissions, but newspapers survive on a symbiotic blend of ads and articles. So get to it!

That's all for today from down here.

Labels: advertising, apme, calendar, snd