Category: Ideas
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The messy beginnings of an online portfolio
It’s not organized as well as I’d like, and it’s neither finished nor comprehensive, but if you can’t help but be interested in the sort of stories I wrote as a reporter (way back in 2006, mind you), there are now a few clips from the Spartan Daily and Oakland Tribune posted on my Work…
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Remember when I asked you what I should learn next?
A refresher for those of you who weren’t taking notes: An informal poll on what I should learn next (March 10, 2007). Apparently, that was six months ago. Yikes. So after everyone weighed in, multimedia storytellers voting for Flash, programmers voting for programming, and executives voting for business-sense, more or less, I said I would…
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Three blog posts I haven’t had the time to write yet
These are not un-busy times. Without further explanation or caveat, here are a few things kicking around in my head, if not necessarily in pixels just yet: What Are You Reporting On?: An explanation of the idea and how the Twitter ID, the Facebook group, the WordPress.com blog, the Knight News Challenge grant application, and…
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I don’t care what journalists are reading; I care what they’re writing
Scott Karp and friends (and those are some pretty smart friends) are up to something interesting, but I sure as heck can’t tell what it is based on a rambling post at the new publish2.com. It sounds like something that’s supposed to clean up all the doubling and overlapping of social networks the media blogger…
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Meta notes: Where to find my microchunks
If you get the feeling I haven’t been writing here as much lately, you’re right. But I’m still out here, reading everything I can get my hands on and throwing up links left and right. They’re just not always where you’re expecting them, eh? So then, if the meager postings to Delicious you find on…
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Notes on migrating three quarters of a mile
So we moved. And by “moved,” I mean we loaded our stuff into a truck and drove less than a mile to an apartment with more space, less drunk people throwing up next to our bedroom window (so far), and far more sanity all around us. The state of our new living room as of…
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I like San Francisco signage
The last time I was in San Francisco, I battled with a bout of nostalgia as I missed the real City. But hanging out in North Beach yesterday, I remembered the thing about San Francisco I noticed a few years back: The signage hasn’t been updated in 20 years or so. Check out the old-school…
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Well that was an interesting week
It has been a long time since I’ve been this happy to see a Friday night. It’s the end of my first full week back at work since the birth of our daughter. It’s the end of a week that started with a blog post that was intended to get approximately the amount of attention…
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Shifting priorities
If posting gets a little light around here, it’s because a few projects are working their way toward completion. One is nearly finished (more on that within the next few weeks) and another I just made a big change to get started on in earnest. There’s a third that’s on hold for a few minutes,…