Opening the Archives
From Dan Gillmor First is to open the archives, with permalinks on every story in the database. Newspapers hold more of their communities’ histories and all other media put together, yet they hoard it...
View ArticleHuffington Post Chicago
The Huffington Post Chicago site has launched and so far I’m impressed. Looks like a nice collection of opening day stories talking about the greatness of Chicago. I found a few I liked, The Newspaper...
View ArticleSome things I’ve liked recently
Here’s a few things I’ve come across the last few days which are pretty nifty… The Las Vegas Sun’s weather page. Extremely clean design with lots of data but easy to read and understand unlike ours....
View ArticlePolitical Browser
The Washington Post launched a new site, Political Browser. It looks like a very useful place to check every day for the latest political thoughts and ideas. I do find it a bit disheartening though...
View ArticleThought of the Day
Would it be such a terrible thing? If newspapers were managed by new groups of people with no real romantic link to the glory days of newspapers, and freed from management grown fat and lazy on the...
View ArticleCampaign Finance API from the NY Times
The New York Times opened up an API to get data about campaign financing. Yes, I’m jealous that they did this before we did.
View ArticleLiving Behind the Pay Wall
Techdirt has two really good posts today about making information hard-to-find when customers are looking for it. The first deals directly with it by looking at newspapers holding their archives...
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Hadoop’ing at My Desk
Last week, I started scrounging around the office for some unused PC’s. Unfortunately, they were more than just a few because of all the things going on at the Times. I grabbed three, put them on my...
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The end of Out of Town News
Dave brings word of the closing of Out of Town News in the heart of Harvard Square. While totally understandable, given the current shape newspapers are in, it still is pretty sad for me on a personal...
View ArticleStarting a Newspaper
Seth Godin writes about he would start a newspaper with roughly six people or so. What about the institutions that have many more people already writing for publication? When I was at The Times, a few...
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