12 Jul 07 Chicago Methods Reporter

Recently got an e-mail from Brad Flora over at the Chicago Methods Reporter, offering a link exchange. Normally, I’m a little skeptical of link exchanges — what with spammers cultivating link farms, it triggers the same ‘heads-up’ reflex that triggers when a seemingly legitimate e-mail turns out to have the familiar pattern of advance fee fraud (a.k.a. the Nigerian letter).

But, I didn’t want to take a “everyone in the world is evil” approach to life, so I popped over there to check the site’s legitimacy, and was surprised to find that the site seemed to have a good collection of interesting bits, including a fun little bit about a 7-11 up in Evanston that was redressed as a Kwik-E-Mart as a Simpsons Movie promotion. (I had heard about this, but had no idea there were any of those in Illinois.)

I felt I could recommend the site to readers without reservation (i.e., if I had found this on my own, it would have been something I would’ve posted about even without the link exchange offer), and so I wanted to point you in their direction as a site that appears to be a good, substantial site — a rarity on the ‘Net nowadays, it seems.

Addendum: I had never heard of Medill, but Googled it as an afterthought, and color me impressed: the site’s run by journalism students from Northwestern University. Definitely an unqualified recommendation: that’s a nice pedigree for any online site.