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Jan. 18: Washington Business Journal’s Timothy Wong moving to Washington Post

Timothy Wong, design editor of the Washington Business Journal in Arlington, Va., is moving to the Washington Post, where he’ll join the digital design team working on mobile products, reports Eddie Scarry of MediaBistro‘s FishbowlDC blog. Scarry quotes Tim as saying: The position seemed like a unique opportunity that would give me more exposure to the digital side of the [...]

Nov. 28, 2011: Another view of the newsroom of the future (5)

Here’s what a typical pod might look like in the nnewsroom of the future, according to Juan Señor of Innovation Media Consulting Group and formerly with PBS, CNBC and the International Herald Tribune. This doesn’t look so alien at first. Until you get into the details. Standing at the upper left is an iPad editor. He or she needs technical [...]

Nov. 9, 2011: Flash finally dies 19 months after it was mortally wounded by Apple

Jack Shafer of Reuters said it best, perhaps, today via Twitter: [Steve] Jobs wins one from the grave. Adobe Systems announced today it was abandoning development of a Flash player for mobile devices. This comes after announcing Tuesday the company will lay off up to 750 employees.     Flash runs on neither Apple’s iPhone nor iPad, thanks to decisions [...]

Oct. 3, 2011: But was it damaged by the earthquake?

I got this little beauty this afternoon, along with my daily dose of e-mail spam: Given the issues lately with the Washington Monument (go here, here and then here) I question the timing of this particular campaign. Coming next: Ads that compare the Washington Post‘s app to the U.S. manned space program. And President Barack Obama‘s poll numbers. And the [...]

Sept. 21, 2011: San Diego’s Yuri Victor to join Washington Post (2)

Yuri Victor — digital content and design manager for the San Diego Union Tribune — announced this morning via Facebook: Excited to announce I’m heading back to DC to work at The Washington Post. Yuri tells us: I’ll be designing news applications for washingtonpost.com. The position is a chance to move back into the newsroom in full and focus on [...]

July 8, 2011: Space shuttle media gaffes… and more wonderful shuttle graphics (3)

We’ve seen the last launch of the U.S. space shuttle program. As you can see from this photo posted today by Tom Burton of the Orlando Sentinel. Read more about the launch in the Sentinel. Despite the iffy weather, the launch went off pretty smoothly except for a one brief, nerve-wracking moment. With just over 30 seconds to go, there [...]

June 9, 2011: Feel free to text someone about this graphic (3)

Here’s a cool — and fun — little graphic from today’s Wall Street Journal: The story itself — by the Journal‘s Anton Troianovski — is here. My take on the data: Verrrry interesting. A real game-changer for the mobile-first crowd. And perhaps not unexpected at all. My take on the graphic: Y’know, it’s funny. Seems like the Wall Street Journal [...]

April 5, 2011: William Couch to leave newspapers and join Twitter

William Couch — an interactive designer who played a huge, huge role in building USA Today‘s uber-successful apps for the Android, iPhone and iPad — announced tonight he will be leaving USA Today and joining Twitter as a software engineer. He made the announcement earlier today on Twitter. Of course. William writes today in his blog: Twitter has witnessed phenomenal [...]

Feb. 21, 2011: Free to SND members: Classes on mobile design

The Society for News Design is offering a two-day class in news design for mobile devices. The class is being offered twice: March 25 and 26 at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., and April 8 and 9 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The instructors will be Jeremy Gilbert — of Northwestern U. and former design director of the Fort [...]

Oct. 14, 2010: Ew.

News isn’t the only thing you can get via your mobile device. You can also get cooties. A lot of ‘em, evidently. Bobby Caina Calvan of the Sacramento Bee reports today: British researchers provide some stomach-churning data: Mobile phones harbor 18 times more bacteria than a flush handle in a typical men’s restroom. According to [a study on viruses, co-authored [...]

Sept. 13, 2010: Knight Foundation offering class in interactive census data presentation

Len De Groot – longtime Fort Lauderdale graphics whiz who left last year to join the Knight Foundation at the University of California Berkeley — tells us his organization is offering training later this year. Training in which you might be interested. Len writes: The Knight Digital Media Center is holding an Interactive Census Workshop Dec. 12-17 at the UC [...]

July 19, 2010: Gannett ContentOne’s Joey Marburger joins the Washington Post

Joey Marburger is leaving Gannett’s ContentOne team to join the Washington Post, he announced a week ago on Twitter. Dennis Brack confirms for us: Indeed, The Post‘s design team is expanding. Joey Marburger joined us last week as our mobile design guru. His expertise will be invaluable as we develop a number of new products targeted at various mobile platforms. [...]

July 16, 2010: Download your %$#*ing Rod Blagojevich ringtones here

Here’s the most clever thing I’ve seen in a long while… The State Journal-Register of Springfield, Ill., has found a way to leverage the filthy-but-bleeped audio recordings of disgraced former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich. They’re handing them out as ringtones: Wow. Clever, clever, clever. What are you waiting for? Get off your #%&* @$$, head over there and download your [...]