23: What was 9/11?

It’s hard to really take in, after all these years, that most people have no memory of the day. The majority of people in the world were either not born, or not...

The New Alt Media and the Future of Publishing

You might have noticed, it’s not a super fun time to be in the publishing industry, especially if you’re trying to do journalism. The years-long drumbeat of bad...

Best of Best Of

The Village Voice’s Best of New York 2004 is up, and it seems like the best one in years. People who haven’t worked in the publishing industry (or haven’t...

great emails in customer service history

Another in my occasional series of great emails sent to our customer service address at work: From: [Name Redacted] Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:18 PM...

more Actual Emails

We get the best random emails to the webmaster account at work. Today’s: Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:49 PM To: Webmaster Subject: comment I plan to...

JS Online: Parents say kid's thong is just plain wrong

Today I added my first article to the list of headline links on the Voice homepage. It’s a blog of sorts. The link text? “ Parents Say Kiddie Thong by...

voice personals prank call

Umm, to everyone forwarding me the MP3 of the prank call to the Village Voice about placing a personal ad, thanks, but I got it . Since I work at the Village...

Village Voice nightguide

I haven’t posted much because I’ve been busy building this thing . As with most web projects, I see its going live not as a sign that it’s done, but that it’s...

I don't generally believe in

I don’t generally believe in awards unless they pay me money, but I sure am happy for my friends when they win them. So, congratulations to all my co-workers...

As I'm super busy with

As I’m super busy with a work project (if there are roughly 20 blank pages in next week’s Village Voice, you’ll know I didn’t succeed.) I’ve taken a guest host...

From: xxxxxx@aol.com Sent: Monday, August

**From:** xxxxxx @aol.com Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 11:11 AM To: classified@villagevoice.com ; webmaster@villagevoice.com Subject: personal ad problem In...