Today Chartbeat had some login problems. None of our producers or editors could log in. Our Google TV that usually displays realtime stats for the newsroom was blank. And we weren’t alone at The Seattle Times, as evidenced by mass freakout on Twitter. But Chartbeat pulled through… and also bought beer for The Seattle Times. Read More
Last week I learned that David Cohn knows how to tell a joke, bust a move and host an awesome conference. In all seriousness, the Hardly Strictly Young conference was a whirlwind of new people, old friends, big questions, bright ideas and lots of food. About 30 of us got together at the Reynold’s Journalism Institute Read More
It’s been a year since we launched v 2.0 of Spot.us. Now, a year, later, here I am working with David Cohn and Erik Sundelof on a whole new and improved design. And it’s going blow your mind (but maybe I’m a little biased). As time has gone on with Spot.us and new features have Read More
My latest 10,000 Words post outlines the latest news design trends in the Google Chrome app store, many of which I believe could be pointing at a future of news design. Notably, I point to: Grid layouts Keyboard shortcuts Full screen glory Multi-column text display Multi-paneled layouts Big, beautiful video and imagery In-browser notifications Offline Read More
You know those late nights of surfing the interwebs that land you at a random page with a random link and the next thing you know you’re filling up a form or signing up for an account? I did that last week and it actually paid off. I absent-mindedly applied to join the Pilot Program Read More
This afternoon I did a terrible, terrible thing. I upgraded to WordPress 3.0.2 without backing up anything. There were two key things I did not realize. Which totally screwed me over: When editing your child themes in wp-admin (not via FTP, not locally), the directory on the right also lists files from the parent theme. Read More