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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Category Archives: Journalism
Urban renewal for data ghettos
So, I gather that in newsrooms it’s become [fashionable](http://dunes.cincinnati.com/data/) to [put](http://www2.tbo.com/static/news-special-reports-data-bay/tbo-special-reports-database-main-page/) [public](http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=LOCAL08) [records](http://www.azcentral.com/datacenter/) [online](http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=data). I totally love the term that [Matt Waite](http://www.mattwaite.com/2008/01/02/data-ghettos/) coined — calling them [data ghettos](http://www.mattwaite.com/2008/01/02/data-ghettos/): > But if you take a step into one of the databases … Continue reading
Posted in Databases, Journalism, Programming
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AJC development group mentioned at APME
We’re in [film!](http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/soundslides/ajc_apme/soundslider.swf) Robin Henry, our Digital Managing Editor extraordinaire, spoke at a recent [Associated Press Managing Editors conference](http://www.apme.com/) and screened this [Soundslides presentation](http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/soundslides/ajc_apme/soundslider.swf) that Emily Murphy and the [AJC](http://www.ajc.com)’s multimedia group put together. I look and sound like a … Continue reading
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Two takes on agile development worth discussing
Over at Code Craft Kevin is arguing that agile methodologies make for more code, rather than less. It’s an interesting idea — that the waterfall model introduces some sort of Darwin-esque survival of the fittest trials that only worthy features/products … Continue reading
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Best sig on AIM today
“The user-generated content would create the site.” (via Laura)
Posted in Business, Journalism, Web design
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Lessons to be learned from the miner debacle
My former news editor, the honorable [Fred Vultee](http://headsuptheblog.blogspot.com/) has a great discussion going about [what you can, can’t, and definitely should put in a headline](http://headsuptheblog.blogspot.com/2006/01/mine-disaster-attributions-your-friend.html) about the status of trapped coal miners. I wasn’t paying terribly much attention to the … Continue reading
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