Archive for September, 2007

What I worked on, Summer 2007

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007

This summer I spent my time helping on a bunch of stuff, both standalone small stuff and stuff on top of existing stuff. If words like “stuff” pique your interest, here’s more of it:

Launched the Denver Post’s article commenting and community site. It’s called Neighbors, and it holds a heckuva lot of stuff. I built […]

The Denver Post’s up for three Online News Association awards, and now all our problems are solved!

Monday, September 17th, 2007

Snark aside, my employer the Post is up for the General Excellence (medium site), Breaking News and something else relating to our business columnist Al Lewis. That’s terrific, and it comes from the work of our team and Al Lewis. On another Al Lewis-related note, he wrote an excellent and semi-snarky column about leadership […]

August’s most-popular links: Topix, Google Maps, anonymous comments, registration, web-time vs. newspaper-time

Tuesday, September 11th, 2007

These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in August (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article).

Topix is not necessarily your friend: “Publishers get quite worked up about Google and Yahoo “stealing” their news, but for the most part, and […]

Links: On Google’s AP move and newspapers as a “change organization”

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007

Howard Owens has a solid post about five attributes necessary for newspapers to continually cope with the changing information landscape. Number four is my favorite:
Fourth, measuring success won’t be a matter of dollars and sense only. I think Hagel is right on this point: We need to develop metrics that help us gauge our ability […]

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