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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 [...]

March 15, 2011: Yes, it’s intentional

This year’s Final Four logo might seem a bit familiar to you. That’s intentional, someone from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration tweeted today. Follow the NASA twitter feed here.

Feb. 3, 2011: How NOT to promote your company or product on Twitter

It’s simple. Find a news event that everyone is watching on TV and reading about online. One in which people are oppressed and suffering or even dying. And then try to hijack the hashtag: Oh, that’s despicable. To give Kenneth Cole credit, it came back 90 minutes or so later and apologized. But still. Find the original article — and [...]

Nov. 3, 2010: An early-bird look at Wednesday’s election fronts (6)

Our forecast for today: Sunny skies, chilly air and a huge dose of headlines and nameplates reversed out of red. For any of you who happen to be up at this hour and are anxiously awaiting the day’s front pages from the Newseum, here’s a preview from folks who have posted their overnight labors via Twitter. Colin Smith of the [...]

Oct. 11, 2010: Join us tonight for a visual journalism chat

I feel a little strange calling it a “VizEds” chat, since this blog is no longer affiliated with the wonderful folks at VisualEditors.com. However, that’s what they’re calling it. A VizEds chat. And they’re planning another one for tonight at 9 p.m., EDT. The chat is headed up by Jim McBee, assistant news editor of the Star-Tribune of Casper, Wyo. [...]

Sept. 6, 2010: Gotta be a first: Reporter live-tweets his own heart attack

The patient-journalist (not to be confused with a “patient journalist,” which would be another thing entirely) is Tommy Christopher, who is a media writer and White House correspondent for Mediaite.com, Asylum.com and DailyDose.us. Late Saturday, Tommy tweeted: Ate dinner at the Mos Eisley Cantina. Enjoyed the pasta, but the wookie was chewy. Very funny. Sometime around 6 p.m. EDT Sunday, [...]

Sept. 2, 2010: The power of online first (1)

If anyone out there still had doubts about an “online first” breaking news strategy, then surely yesterday laid those doubts to rest. Because the new online-only D.C.-area news site TBD kicked ass yesterday in a big, big way with its coverage of the Discovery Channel hostage situation. I spent some time yesterday clicking around, looking for the latest on that [...]

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. [...]