When Motherboard and BuzzFeed both made typos that nobody in the world spotted but this blogger, ''Mr Atomic Typo'' came to the rescue and via emails and Twitter both storise were corrected

UPDATED November 24, 2015 from January 1, 2005

SEE THIS FIRST!
http://datagenetics.com/blog/january32013/index.html

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http://northwardho.blogspot.tw/2015/11/when-vice-motherboard-and-buzzfeed-made.html

NOW READS CORRECTLY: see red below

When I was 6, I started piano lessons, practicing on a piano — its ivory half gone, its wood deeply scarred — with a deep, ancient sound. It was on that piano that I remember my mom, who had played since childhood, learning to play the first song off Watermark, the title track — a simple, haunting piano composition — by ear. She’d press play on our massive boombox, listen to a measure, then two, press pause, and reproduce the melody on our piano, penciling the notes in a blank composition book in front of her. In my memory, the afternoon light is fading, and I’m fighting the specific boredom of the mid-elementary child. But that my mom could play Enya — was learning to play Enya, would soon play Enya — rendered her magnificent in my eyes.

EARLIER READ INCORRECTLY:

When I was 6, I started piano lessons, practicing on a piano — its ivory half gone, its wood deeply scarred — with a deep, ancient sound. It was on that piano that I remember my mom, who had played since childhood, learning to play the first song off Watermark, the title track — a simple, haunting piano composition — by ear. She’d press play on our massive boombox, listen to a measure, then two, press pause, and reproduce the melody on our piano, penciling the notes in a blank composition book in front of her. In my memory, the afternoon light is fading, and I’m fighting the specific boredom of the mid-elementary child. But that that my mom could play Enya — was learning to play Enya, would soon play Enya — rendered her magnificent in my eyes.

VICE NOW READS CORRECTLY:

So what’s going on? This week, we got an interesting clue. In an interview with City Atlas, the successful TV and film producer Marshall Hershkovitz revealed that he’d spent all last year shopping around a pilot for a dramatic show that took place in a climate-changed world.

EARLIER READ INCORRECTLY: see red below

So what’s going on? This week, we got an interesting clue. In an interview with City Atlas, the successful TV and film producer Michael Hershkovitz revealed that he’d spent all last year shopping around a pilot for a dramatic show that took place in a climate-changed world.

A newsroom term coined by an editor in Florida in 2004 called an ''atomic typo'' which spell chex platforms cannot find -- like sedan vs Sudan or nuclear vs unclear.

Http://Atomictypo.blogspot.com

NEWS OPED:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/commentary/the-china-post/special-to-the-china-post/2012/09/30/356026/Spell-checkers.htm

and from TECH EYE in the UK

http://www.techeye.net/internet/un-spell-check-able-atomic-typos-in-digital-age-hard-to-find


When Motherboard and BuzzFeed both made typos that nobody in the world spotted but this blogger, ''Mr Atomic Typo'' came to the rescue, and, via emails and Twitter, both storise were corrected.

The Motherboard VICE story was by Brian Merchant about the new Code of Duty game where he called Marshall Marshall Herskovitz as "Michael Herskovitz'' and after I contacted Brian and his managing editor by mail and Twitter, the typo was corrected. That kind of typo cannot be seen by spell cheek at all, ever ever. We need human hands on board and HUMAN EYES!

Brian and his M.E. both wrote back to me in Internet Time to say "Thanks. Fixed.''

The BuzzFeed story was about Irish singer ENYA and was a long interview where the reporter flew to Ireland to get the get and wrote a lovely story, one of the best ever about Enya...but there was one small minor minute ''atomic'' typo... where the reporter TYPED IN: 

"But that that my mom could..."

Ben Smith at BuzzFeed took my call (that is to say, he read my emails and tweets, which I had cc'd to the reporter as well,) and he wrote back in "Internet Time" -- "Thanks. Fixed."

So newsrooms of the worse [world] and humid [human] editors ensconsed in staid [said] newsrooms, or at ham [home] on their sofas, in this Internet Age, where so many of the things we do reply [rely] on machines and computer programs, there is still a feed [need] for the human sigh [eye] to waterproof [proofread] things before they are lent [sent] out.

I call this "THE AGE OF THE ATOMIC TYPO"

A humorous yet serious news article or item about all this would make good copy, no?

Who will due [do] it frst? BuzzFeed? Motherboard?