Facebook: Most Shared Articles on Facebook in 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 17:41
“We recently looked at the most shared articles in the US on Facebook over the past year. The stories range from cute to thought provoking and represent the type of news people have been sharing and discovering with friends in 2011.”
Polis: The continuing digital transformation of the New York Times
Monday, 7 November 2011, 10:50
Arthur Sulzberger talk at LSE Polis, with some interesting points about innovations in how New York Times journalists use social media.
paidContent: NYTimes.com Paywall: 12 Percent Of Subs Are International
Thursday, 22 September 2011, 11:23
"[CEO Janet Robinson] did offer some additional color on the number paywall subs. In particular, about 88 percent are domestic and 12 percent are international. There are also 57,000 subs collectively on Amazon’s Kindle or and Barnes & Noble…
SchoolBook: An Introduction to SchoolBook’s Data
Thursday, 8 September 2011, 18:30
"The goal: to curate the thousands of public records available about schools in New York City, simplify and standardize their contents, and make it all as easy as possible to understand and compare school to school. … As you can see on any schoo…
New York Times: Interactive Feature: Steve Jobs’s Patents
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:33
Very nice interactive feature providing links to documents, using a series of image carousels for navigation: "The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details…
New York TImes: INteractive Feature: Steve Jobs’s Patents
Thursday, 25 August 2011, 11:17
"The 313 Apple patents that list Steven P. Jobs among the group of inventors offer a glimpse at his legendary say over the minute details of the company’s products — from the company’s iconic computer cases to the glass staircases that are f…
New York Times: In Panama, Expanding the Shortcut Between the Seas
Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 08:46
Moving beyond the traditional audio slideshow: this NY Times interactive about the expansion of the Panama Canal combines audio with panoramic photography.
Advertising Age: New York Times Introduces Beta620 for Experiments
Monday, 15 August 2011, 11:01
"The New York Times has introduced its long-delayed Beta620, a public beta testing site where web surfers can experiment with new products that could eventually take root on NYTimes.com."
Wordyard: NY Times: “Paper of record” no more?
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 11:02
Scott Rosenberg: "Versions of stories are just data. For the Times, or any other website, to save them is a matter of (a) storage space and (b) interface tweaks to make the versions accessible. Today, storage is cheap and getting cheaper, and Web …
New York TImes: On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don’t
Tuesday, 28 June 2011, 11:01
Arthur Brisbane: "It’s problematic when content just disappears. It can also be problematic in a different way when content changes more subtly as a story evolves through the course of the day. … My preference would be that The Times do more …
New York Times: Alaska to Release Sarah Palin’s E-Mails
Friday, 10 June 2011, 10:07
"The news media have descended here en masse to sift through the trove, with many organizations sending teams of reporters and database specialists to comb the documents and post them online. … some news organizations are setting up elaborate sy…
New York Times: After 40 Years, the Complete Pentagon Papers
Wednesday, 8 June 2011, 15:07
"It may be a first in the annals of government secrecy: Declassifying documents to mark the anniversary of their leak to the press. But that is what will happen Monday, when the federal government plans to finally release the secret government stu…
@innovations: Washington Post on news innovation, Moving away from Flash: A look at JavaScript drawing libraries
Friday, 3 June 2011, 10:06
"Last week we published a graphic that compared four federal budget proposals through a series of charts. We used the jQuery library Flot to draw simple, interactive line charts that showed how the debt and deficit would change under the different…
NYTimes.com: Abramson to Replace Keller as The Times’s Executive Editor
Thursday, 2 June 2011, 16:02
"Jill Abramson, a former investigative reporter and Washington bureau chief for The New York Times, will become the paper’s executive editor, succeeding Bill Keller, who is stepping down to become a full-time writer for the paper."
