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Explaining Twitter
As regular readers might know, I’m a big fan of Twitter. Perhaps it’s my lamentably shrinking free time or the general state of fatigue that makes it hard for me to coerce sentences together into a...
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Another Twitter Talk
I’m not much of a blogger these days. Between my day job and some of its high-priority projects and my spare time at home with my family, including one rambunctious toddler, lengthy self-reflection is...
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So Long Sections?
Over the past few years, there has been no shortage of real and virtual ink devoted to what the future of newspapers might be (although I would prefer if there were less writing and more doing). I’m...
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The Long And Short Of It
Recently, Jay Rosen pointed that Bitly analytics seemed to report many more hits than other URL shorteners. The problem looked eerily familiar; and then I realized it was the same issue I had observed...
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Like a Floppy Disk in the Sky
Back in the heady days of 2008, one of my nicknames in the newsroom was Mr. Twitter, due to my work on the @nytimes twitter account (and other automated pages) and my work (with others here at the NYT)...
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The Appeal of Annotations
Last week, I had the honor of speaking at Twitter’s Chirp conference, where I talked a little about some of the New York Times’ upcoming integration of @anywhere, and share some fun statistics I had...
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Waves of Annotation
Two weeks after the announcement (and some big waves by Facebook), there still seems to be serious interest in Twitter annotations. And yet, we have to wonder how much annotations will catch on,...
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Using Varnish To Keep Web Surges Tamed
For those of you who might be interested, I wrote a post for the NY Times Open blog on the Varnish web cache titled Using Varnish So News Doesn’t Break Your Server. For those of you, who prefer...
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Going to CAR 2011 Next Week
One of my perennial complaints about the whole “future of journalism” topic is that it seems to be predominated less by people who actually create things and more by people who either come up with...
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Working With Wikileaks
I recently had the honor of speaking at a recent Hacks/Hackers meetup about working with the Wikileaks data. I talked about some of the work I had done with Sabrina Tavernise and Kevin Quealy looking...
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