Permalancers are people too, people who need health benefits, 401(k)s and paid vacation days. To remind the bigwigs at Viacom about these issues, the “freelancers” staged a walk out yesterday.

Viacom managers were “supportive of the strike;” a freelancer told Mixed Media, "The word of the day is, 'Do what you gotta do.'"

These managers are so trying to be the cool father who can still rap with their teenagers’ friends. How about instead of rapping, you help get these kids some benefits?

Pitch timely features for Tango, a lesser-known quarterly title covering love and relationships! Just make sure you do it fast. The last issue of its short-lived print edition is coming out in Winter 2007, at which point the mag will fold "transition" from "print to a principally digital platform."

A good friend once described the New Yorker’s approach to news as such: “News isn’t reported in the New Yorker; the news is that it’s in the New Yorker.”

The same could be said for Slate. As one of the oldest online-only news sources that puts a premium on good writing, Slate has never claimed to be a “get it first” source. The main feature usually updates just once a day, which is a glacial pace online.

So along with “bucking conventional wisdom,” Slate writers often just write about whatever interests them, no news peg required.

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