Don’t use headlines to create alternative universes: For all I know, this article found at the Columbia Journalism Review’s website could be objective and fact-filled. However, I couldn’t get beyond the headline, “How evangelical Christians are creating an alternative universe of faith-based news.”

I find the use of the term Alternative universe outrageous in a headline about this topic.

Of course, I’d be just as outraged if I saw above an article about a hispanic-American-focused news operation, the headline, “How hispanic Americans are creating an alternative universe of hispanic-based news” or, “How black Americans are creating an alternative universe of African American-based news” or, “How liberal Americans are creating an alternative universe of left-leaning-based news”

Apparently, the headline writer has a lock on some wisdom of what universe is correct for us: All others are “alternative.”

I enjoy living in one common universe that can be interpreted from alternative points of view.

I’ll leave it to science fiction writers, rather than editors/reporters, to determine what is, and is not, an alternative universe.

Blogging is her “tuning fork”: On her blog, Management Craft, Lisa Haneberg says, “Blogging is my tuning fork…Blogging and reading blogs keep my mind sharp and give me ideas that are more likely to work.”

I really like that and share its sentiment.

Unfortunately, I know some folks who apparently view their weblog as a pitch fork.

A magazine editor responds to a negative NYT story — using the magazine’s blog: Please , excuse me. My blog worlds are colliding.

Yesterday, I blogged and pointed to this piece in the NY Times by David Carr that said, in rather hyperbolic tones, that general business magazines are (let me ad-lib here) all washed-up, especially Fast Company!

Today, the editor of Fast Company! responds to the New York Times column and chooses to use the magazine’s weblog as his platform.

For the record, I agree with the editor. In fact, the other day I explained that I thought the Inc. and Fast Company! franchise values are way higher than zero in a comment thread on this post of a weblog called, Business Pundit. ”

This achy breaky sucks: Presenting the summer, 2005, Billy Ray Cyrus memorial novelty music fad: Cowboy Troy and hick hop. Wake me up when this nightmare is over.

As for me (and this may surprise anyone who hasn’t seen my iPod): I like my rap, old-school (authentic) and my hip hop, Missy Elliott (fun and intelligent). I like my country unplugged and bluegrass.

Hick hop takes everything predictable & formulaic about rap and everything clichéd and overproduced about country music, and mashes it up into something that sounds like a Weird Al Yankovic recording.

Deep Throat: “W. Mark Felt, who retired from the FBI after rising to its second most senior position, has identified himself as the “Deep Throat” source quoted by The Washington Post to break the Watergate scandal that led to President Nixon’s resignation, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday.” (That he was Deep Throat has been a leading theory) for a long time.)

More on how money goes poof: The cautionary tale of Daniel Webster’s* Brewster’s $560 million spending spree with other people’s deutschmarks to purchase Inc. & Fast Company.

*Update: Thanks, Staci (see comments), for that correction of my humorous mind-slip.

Just because my son will be wearing one of those T-Shirts: On Saturday morning, I’m dropping off a friend’s son at a local high school so he can take an SAT II exam. Because the test is across the street from the mall where this will be taking place, I think there’s a chance I and my 14-year-old will go pick up free T-Shirts that endorse a company that sues bloggers.