The blog has been a bit quiet lately (to the disappointment of very few, I’m sure) — but we’ve been releasing apps and blogging furiously over at our team site. Here’s a roundup of our recent posts:
Tools we love to use
Quick-install Python/PostGIS geo stack on Snow Leopard
Deploying ProPublica’s awesome table-setter tables to S3 using Fabric
Quickly [...]
Cross-posted from the Chicago Tribune news apps team blog…
Join our team!
Requirements:
A passion for the news
An understanding of the inner workings of the web
Attention to detail and hatred for inaccuracy
A genuine and friendly disposition
Position one: User experience designer / information architect
Our team is in need of someone who will lead the design conversation. Someone who will [...]
UPDATE: We’ve filled the position, but may be hiring more soon. If this looks like your dream job, please send an email anyway.
Cross-posted from our new team blog:
We’re looking for a great hacker to join our team at the Chicago Tribune.
Requirements:
A passion for the news
An understanding of the inner workings of the web
Attention [...]
Required qualifying statement: if you’re a sex offender, you’ve likelypossibly (as pointed out by Asim, a recent piece in The Economist suggests that sex criminals in the U.S. are often victims of our screwed-up laws) done something very bad, and of which I do not, in any way, approve. That said, I’m pretty sure you [...]
Invisible airwaves, crackle with life…
I don’t write about it much here, but I love the radio. NPR is my primary daily news source. So, I was totally geeked when Here and Now asked me to be on their program. And through the magic of editing, I think I managed to sound pretty alright!
(You know how, [...]
Next week, my internship at ProPublica will end. The chance to work here was an extraordinarily lucky break, and I can say without reservation that this is the best job I’ve ever had. Never before have I worked with so many brilliant, interesting, and damn nice people.
I love living in New York, and am disappointed [...]
The Tribune announced this week that they will begin printing the fat Chicago daily as a tabloid! Huzzah!
The Tribune’s move, replacing its broadsheet edition with the tabloid version at the retail level, is an aggressive bet that a switch in size will improve sales. There are no plans to make the tabloid-sized edition available for [...]
I just had an interesting chat with Daniel X. O’Neil, EveryBlock’s People Person, and he confirmed my suspicions…
Two (maybe three) *totally amazing* things happened on chicagotribune.com today.
They silently released a new “(beta test)” feature, an EveryBlock-enabled police blotter. Gaper’s Block got the scoop, from, get this, a tweet by the Tribune’s twitter persona, according to [...]
Joel Spolsky from Inc. Magazine (via SVN):
Watching nonprogrammers trying to run software companies is like watching someone who doesn’t know how to surf trying to surf. Even if he has great advisers standing on the shore telling him what to do, he still falls off the board again and again. The cult of the M.B.A. [...]
“The WWW world consists of documents, and links.” — Tim Berners-Lee, in alt.hypertext, 1991.
red light district, by SMN
Why do newspapers publish AP articles online? Why not just link to them? David Cohen says “Stop buying Associated Press articles.”
They are called hyperlinks. They are blue. They are useful. Look Ma’ - here’s an AP [...]
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