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Month September 2010

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Experimenting with Storify

Sep 30, ’10 11:47 AM

For reasons that will be more obvious to some of you than others, I’ve been interested for some time now in a good tool for embedding tweets into, say, news stories. Or blog posts. Anywhere it might come in handy to use tweets to tell a story. I’ve been trying out curated.by a little bit, but it’s a little clumsy for my use case, I think. Or at least, the embeddable widgets it produces aren’t suitable.

But I just had a very easy time fiddling around with Storify. Check Nieman Lab’s own Storify experiment for a bit more detail about the startup, the launch, and the founder.

And here’s my embedded story about the weather:

On admin interfaces

Sep 23, ’10 9:35 AM

Jeff Croft’s notes on including the content-editing bit of a site on the retail-facing side of things, instead of off in a separate interface at another URL, in another world.

On admin interfaces

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Writer for iPad Aims For Focus, Beauty, Simplicity

Sep 22, ’10 2:25 PM

A word processor for the iPad from iA. Makes me want an iPad.

Writer for iPad Aims For Focus, Beauty, Simplicity

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Sun changes story commenting policy to foster responsible dialogue

Sep 22, ’10 11:17 AM

A note to readers authored by Rob Curley about advances in the Sun’s commenting policy, including tiered access and display based on whether or not the user’s real identity has been verified.

Sun changes story commenting policy to foster responsible dialogue

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The Pizza Lab: Bringing Neapolitan Pizza Home (aka ‘The Skillet-Broiler Method’)

Sep 17, ’10 1:43 PM

The Pizza Lab: Bringing Neapolitan Pizza Home (aka ‘The Skillet-Broiler Method’)

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SYLLABUS: Social Media Skills (+ notes from the course)

Sep 10, ’10 9:20 AM

A social media skills course at Columbia, taught by @zseward, @lavrusik, and @nyt_jenpreston? Sounds like the right idea.

SYLLABUS: Social Media Skills (+ notes from the course)

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Pixel Ping: A node.js Stats Tracker

Sep 10, ’10 9:04 AM

A remarkably useful bit of open-sourced code from @propublica: a super lightweight tracker for, well, your content.

Pixel Ping: A node.js Stats Tracker

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Why You NEED to Learn After Effects, NOW!

Sep 10, ’10 8:54 AM

Because @koci says so. But more importantly, check out the beautiful compilation of great motion graphics videos in this post.

Why You NEED to Learn After Effects, NOW!

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Everything that comes next

Sep 8, ’10 9:30 AM

Bit of an announcement to make, although if you follow me on Twitter, the first shoe of the pair dropped last night.

I’m joining Gannett Digital today, as Product Manager, Local Sites.

That means I’ll be working with more than 100 newspapers and broadcast news outlets, thousands of journalists, and helping them deliver information to a rather engaged audience of millions.

I like the sound of that.

For me, it’s a return to building and improving news sites on a large scale, but it’s also the same job I’ve always had in this business: Find, track, and develop the best ideas about the future of news, then hand them off to journalists packaged with the tools and training they need to put those ideas into action. And then keep bugging them about it until they do so.

For a variety of reasons, I left my position at Publish2 a few weeks ago. Thanks to all my friends there, plus everyone who made the job easy, especially the brilliant journalists in newsrooms across the country (and yes, around the world) who “got it” from the start, and were excited to try out everything I threw at them.

And now, onward, to everything that comes next.