Gaming News Apps #editorslab projects from the NYTimes hackathon
I’m so excited for this hackathon at the NY Times. This is a topic I’ve been passonate about for years: Gamification and how to turn news consumption into an interactive experience. I’m not sure if anyone else cares, but I wanted to just leave this Storify here so I’ll have an easy way to check...
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Boston Globe uses tag cloud for portrait of canidates
Pretty cool if you ask me, I’m just wondering what took them so long. Anyone whose been online over the last five years can tell you that the illustration is nothing more than a tag cloud, but in print it’s a bold move. It’s nice to see print taking chances and playing with typography, now...
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Las Vegas Sun is hiring… GO!!!
I bookmarked this on Delicious, which in turn was feed to my twitter, but it’s just too big to leave it at that. The Las Vegas Sun is hiring and if you’re wise, you’d apply. For one there aren’t many places hiring, but bigger than that, the Sun is one of the few papers that...
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Time out Tuesday (extra!extra! edition): Looking back on Iraq
Having lived through half a decade of living with the war in Iraq on the public conscience (for some of us that’s all of high school or college) and upon the cusp of a sixth year… two questions come to mind: 1. What happened to the Afghanistan war? 2. What happened and what can we...
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5years: A number game
5 years 127 journalists killed (84 by murder and 43 KIA, of which 14 killed by US forces) 400,00 – 600,000 (est.) Iraqi civilians killed. 55,000 Iraqi insurgents killed 548 Contract workers killed 305 Non-Iraqis kidnapped (54 killed, 147 released, 4 escaped, 6 rescued and 94 status unknown.) 164,481 coalition troops deployed (155,000 from the...
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Philip Jones Griffiths, dead
Philip Jones Griffiths passed away yesterday (or early this morning, details are still sketchy), you might remember him from his work in Vietnam and the subsequent book “Vietnam Inc.” which lead Noam Chomsky to comment on it that: “If anybody in Washington had read that book, we wouldn’t have had these wars in Iraq or...
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Nice pants, oh and MultimediaShooter is back up
After giving us all a huge scare last week when MultimediaShooter.com was hacked, and according to Richard they messed it up so bad that he wasn’t planning on jumping back on in a hurry. (I know I couldn’t log in to the user panel at all, so it musta been something major.) “RIP… I do...
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PJ loses a friend
I’ve talked about it before, joked about it and held out hope from the inevitable… but today it has come. This morning the staff of the Albuquerque Tribune heard the news, Saturday would be their last day and after 86-years the doors will closed one last time. It wasn’t the paper of my internship, but...
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Bhutto’s last moments, a photographer’s account
As I’m sure we’ve all heard, former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday after a rally just weeks before elections in that country. John Moore was on hand shooting for Getty. Someone at the New York Times must have been on the ball because by this morning they had Moore’s pictures and his...
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The best layout in the history of newspapers (take a long hard look)
Do you see it? No? Focus on the center. Take a look at the two pictures, and no they aren’t from the same story. It maybe hard to read here, but the top image is a stand alone feature and the one below it is a news story on a stolen wallet, the surveillance camera...
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Old media using new media to cover the SoCal fires
If you visit Google Maps you might notice something new. A pair of little red text-based hyperlinks that map out all the important information on the SoCal fires engulfing San Diego, the southern border and parts north of and surrounding LA. It’s all there. Where to go to evacuate, where to take your animals, where...
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Newspaper’s biggest failure and for some reason we continue to ignore it
The biggest failure of the newspaper industry has been failing to change and adapt with its audience. We all say that readership is down and that newspapers are dying (a moment of silence for our brothers and sisters at the Dallas Morning News) and frankly subscribers are dying (old age) and we aren’t getting new...
