‘Romenesko’d’: Danny Bloom’s musical obit for ‘snail’ newspapers—or at least his op-ed about it

David Rothman in DC area blogs: ‘He's been Romenesko’d’-- re Danny Bloom’s musical obit for ‘snail’ newspapers—or at least his op-ed about it



For the op-ed page of the Prov­i­dence Jour­nal, Danny Bloom wrote about his song hon­or­ing old-fashioned newspapers, aka ”Snailpapers.”
He con­fessed that not every­one loved this “musi­cal obit,” as ex-Washington Star gos­sip colum­nist Diana McLel­lan dubbed it.
Lo and behold, how­ever, Danny’s op-ed drew a link from Jim Romenesko’s pop­u­lar news­pa­per blog on the Poyn­ter Insti­tute site.
Mean­while, some­where along the line, Danny dis­cov­ered a neol­o­gism that has been in use already for over 5 years, ‘Romenesko’d,” as in: “Wow, Jim Rome­nesko linked to my oped piece in the LA Times today, first time that ever hap­pened! Can’t wait to tell my friends on Facebook that I’ve been Romenesko’d.” Urban Dic­tio­nary has even picked up the verb. Who knew?