Observations

I was reading an article over on KPLU, and as often happens in my reading, I noticed a couple typos, the most annoying of which was “back-peddling” instead of “back-pedaling”.  I was going to leave a comment, but then decided I would try just emailing the author instead.  So I clicked on the author link, which led to a friendly face, a short bio indicating the guy probably has his hands full, and most importantly an email address.  So I shot off a short, friendly email noting the typos, and three minutes later there was a reply in my inbox, as follows:

!

And - Thank you for letting me know!

We run a little lean around here and I appreciate the notes.

cheers,

Jake Ellison
Online Managing Editor
KPLU.org

And sure enough, I refreshed the page, and all was well.

Yay internet!  Yay public radio!  Yay friendly people.

(P.S. Jake, if you happen to come across this: I figured you wouldn’t mind me quoting your email; I particularly liked the line with exclamation point.  You can let me know if otherwise.)

npr:

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Dude.  Guys.  NPR has recreated Pandora, except now it plays Public Radio stories/shows/music.

This. Is. Awesome.