News/Media • The New York Times did a laudable job assembling this interactive piece on the Trayvon Martin shooting. • Do you want to see how to take Facebook’s Timeline feature and use it to your media company’s advantage? Look no further than Spotify’s page. It’s one giant historical rundown of landmark music events, complete … Read moreBreakfast Links: ‘Games of Thrones,’ Spotify and Dark Energy
Any doubts about Pinterest being the social media break-out success of the first half of 2012 were further challenged by the ComScore numbers discussed today at Poynter. February saw site visits shoot up 52 percent, which is just astounding. Personally, I continue to see a faster adoption rate among my friends and colleagues than I … Read morePinterest use, growth and copyright issues
Every time I see Robert Pattinson in an image from David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis adaptation, I can’t help but think how impossible it sounds to get Twilight readers buying Don DeLillo books. (I remember picking up my hardcover up off the clearance shelf at a Barnes & Noble years ago.) But I guess stranger things have … Read moreNew ‘Cosmopolis’ teaser
Entertainment • Syfy debuted their trailer for “Blood and Chrome,” the new “Battlestar Galactica” prequel project, which may be a Web series or a pilot/TV movie. My first impression from this trailer is that it’s all action and “Immigrant Song,” so I worry that they’re trying to overcompensate for “Caprica” ditching outer-space dogfights for character … Read moreBreakfast Links: a BSG trailer, a ‘Doctor Who’ companion and the NYT paywall
Being that this is the first year I’ve been able to catch Washington’s cherry blossoms in full bloom, I took the camera along over the weekend and added a few cherry blossom photos to my Flickr account. I also did a little research before hitting up the Tidal Basin and National Mall, because, as with … Read more5 Washington cherry blossom facts
Being that this is the first year I’ve been able to catch Washington’s cherry blossoms in full bloom, I took the camera along over the weekend and added a few cherry blossom photos to my Flickr account. I also did a little research before hitting up the Tidal Basin and National Mall, because, as with … Read more5 Washington cherry blossom facts
After finishing Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story a few weeks ago, I was struck by how intimately he had thought through the impact of technology on human relationships. His book anticipates the evolution of Facebook, as well as the descendants of devices such as the iPhone and yet-to-be-released Google glasses. The novel also … Read more5 technologies explored in Shteyngart’s ‘Super Sad True Love Story’
Unfortunately, my work did not take me to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this year. I’ve been forced instead to keep up with announcements and displays through CNET, GigaOM and the Chicago Tribune’s Wailin Wong on Twitter, as well as a few other places. As I touched on a few weeks back, the … Read moreCES 2012 highlights that matter
Since Christmas, I’ve taken a 24-hour Amtrak ride out to Washington, D.C., upped my freelance output and generally been on a wild ride (which has even included red pandas!). Here are a few other items of importance. • It has been somewhat of an annual gig for me the last few years to contribute to … Read moreThe best comics of 2011 and other links
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, my team at Medill recently completed our project with The Chicago Reporter, developing digital solutions and recommending business strategies to help the magazine be more effective online. It was a real pleasure to work on. We conducted user research, talked to journalists at news sites and mapped out … Read moreInterviews and digital solutions from my team’s project at Medill