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Clickable Bylines
Clickable bylines are the new black in online journalism according to this post and related comments at Poynter. I have to admit that I thought that this was the norm rather than the exception, since...
View ArticleDon’t Be Complacent
News Designer: The new free Baltimore Examiner tab dropped Wednesday, with a bigger circulation than the Baltimore Sun. How awful must it be to wake up one morning and have your paper suddenly and...
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Reader Submitted Content: Everybody Wins
I was enthralled to see a reader submitted photo on the front page of The Lawrence Journal-World this morning. It was located just below the fold and part of a followup story about hail damage from the...
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Google Maps adds clickability to GPolyline and GPolygon
I’ve been waiting for this announcement Ever since Google introduced GGeoXml to its mapping API: In our latest release (2.88) of the API, we’ve added “click” events to GPolyline and GPolygon, much to...
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Google Maps GeoXml crash course
Over the weekend I added KML/GeoRSS data loading via GGeoXml to some mapping software for work. I ran in to a couple of gotchas and a couple of things that I thought were really interesting, so I...
View Article2008 Digital Edge Award Finalists
The 2008 DIgital Edge Award finalists were just announced, and I’m excited to see several World Company sites and projects on there as well as a couple of sites running Ellington and even the...
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Google apps for your newsroom
I like to think that I’m pretty good at recognizing trends. One thing that I’ve been seeing a lot recently in my interactions with the newsroom is that we’re no longer exchanging Excel spreadsheets,...
View ArticleWe’re hiring!
Wow, the Django job market is heating up. I posted a job opening for both junior and senior-level Django developers on djangogigs just a few days ago, and it has already fallen off the front page. So...
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Covering Kansas Democratic Caucus Results
I think we’re about ready for caucus results to start coming in. We’re covering the Caucus results at LJWorld.com and on Twitter. Turnout is extremely heavy. So much so that they had to split one of...
View ArticleDjangoCon!
I’m a little late to the announcement party, but I’ll be attending DjangoCon and sitting on a panel about Django in Journalism with Maura Chace and Matt Waite. The panel will be moderated by our own...
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Kansas Primary 2008 recap
I’m winding down after a couple of very long days preparing for our coverage of the 2008 Kansas (and local) primaries. As always it’s been an exhausting but rewarding time. We’ve come a long way since...
View ArticleExplaining my Weird, Uncontrollable Podcasting Workflow
A little background I’ve been podcasting lately, mostly for fun and to play with technology that I haven’t had an excuse to play with before. I hadn’t had a ton of time to listen to podcasts much until...
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