washingtonpost.com’s new Facebook app
May 24, 2007
Back in late April, I was asked by my bosses at The Washington Post and Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive if I could meet with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. At the time, it was pretty hush-hush as to why.
In very short order, I was on a plane headed to Palo Alto — along with WPNI “new products team” colleague and programming genius Deryck Hodge — to meet with Mark and a bunch of other really cool and smart folks from Facebook. What they showed us was amazing. And ground-breaking.
Facebook was working on a new API that would allow others to …
Holovaty stepping out on his own
I first met Adrian Holovaty when he was still a student at the University of Missouri and I was at The Topeka Capital-Journal. It was Steve Klein who set up the introduction, and I’ve thanked Steve numerous times since!
From the first day I spoke with Adrian, I really wanted him to join our development team because he was one of the brightest people I had ever met.
And even in those earliest discussions, it was obvious he had really great ideas.
The best way to build a great web team is to surround yourself with people who are about a …
Thoughts on outsourcing “local” reporting
May 21, 2007
Over the last week or so, there have been a ton of stories about Pasadenanow.com’s impending use of journalists based in India to cover local politics in suburban Pasadena.
I know I’m coming really late to this party, and part of the reason I’m even posting something about it is because a column by C.W. Nevius that ran in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle mentioned our team’s work, and even had a quote from my friend and co-worker, Levi Chronister.
Just in case you don’t know anything about this story, I’ll try to boil it down to syrup: …
Heading to the West Coast again
May 18, 2007
I’m going to be back in the San Francisco area next week for two or three days.
On Tuesday, May 22, I will be speaking at Berkeley for a Knight New Media/UC Berkeley conference. I normally speak at this event about once a year or so, but this will be my second time in just a few months!
My session will be from 7:15 p.m. to 9:15 p.m. at the North Gate Library, located at the intersection of Hearst and Euclid Avenues on the northern edge of the UC Berkeley campus. (At my session back in March, I was there …
Either the Internet is changing, or my wife is turning into a total nerd … and what exactly does this mean to the newspaper industry?
May 16, 2007
When I first started my corporate job at Morris Digital Works back in 1998, my wife (the lovely and irreverent Betsy Curley) bought her first computer — one of the old Mac clamshell laptops.
Though she had used computers in her professional and academic life, this was her first personal computer.
I now watch how she uses her computer all the time because I love to see how “regular people” use the web. You don’t even want to know how many ideas have come to me after watching my family members use their computers — enough that we should probably …
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