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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
Blogs to kill traditional media?
Several recent things have gotten me thinking more deeply about blogs. The first is the announcement that Dan Gilmor is leaving the Merc to pursue an grassroots / open-source journalism effort. The second was an interesting tidbit from Tom Curley, … Continue reading
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Eyetracker III is out
Poynter has released their Web-focused Eyetracker study. Found it at the end of my lunch break (hat tip), hope to have thoughts and reactions soon. In the meantime, check out the overview. **Update**: Hypergene has an interview with Steve Outing … Continue reading
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Citizen journalism: who’s problem?
Over at Small Initiative, Jay’s got a fun little series on The problem with citizen journalism. Essentially, if you let folks rate/rank stories, sometimes some real stinkers float to the top. That begs the question, is the problem with the … Continue reading
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Copy, edit thyself
I caught this at 12:09 p.m. CST. You can automate workflow, you can generate pages on the fly, but it don’t matter a lick if your caption is missing the word “the.”
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The guns of March?
At my paper, we’ve begun our preparation for a possible war with Iraq. We’ve talked with the publisher and and production folks about changes in size and organization of the paper. I’ve been preparing new page templates, and at the … Continue reading
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