September 29, 2005, 12:04 PM ET
Interview at Editor and Publisher
Jay DeFoore at Editor and Publisher interviewed me via e-mail and just published the Q&A on editorandpublisher.com. Check it out.
September 26, 2005, 2:41 PM ET
I've been podcasted
Andrew DeVigal over at Interactive Narratives interviewed me for a podcast. We talked about online journalism, Web development, interactivity, Django and some other stuff. It's also available as a plain MP3.
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September 20, 2005, 12:19 AM ET
Victory in search for Auto Wreckers
In my writeup about the Eagle Man commercial, I mentioned wanting a digitized version of the classic Victory Auto Wreckers commercial that has aired on Chicago TV since the early '80s. Well, whaddya know: It's available online!
And there's an excellent Sun-Times article all about the commercial.
Thanks to my friend Rob for these two treasures.
September 12, 2005, 11:10 PM ET
Batten winner!
Today, chicagocrime.org won Grand Prize in the Batten Awards for Innovations in Journalism.
I'm very excited, because it means I'll have more resources to add features to the site -- and to create more sites serving the people of Chicago.
I'd hoped to have launched my sequel to chicagocrime.org in time for the Batten Awards today, but it's not done yet. Soon.
September 1, 2005, 1:57 AM ET
I've got something for you
I've been generally bummed-out over the past couple of days about Hurricane Katrina and the devastation in and around New Orleans. But today I stumbled across something completely unrelated that made me genuinely ecstatic.
It might even be the best news I've seen all year.
A staple of Chicagoland television, the Eagle Man commercial, has been made available online.
This is, hands-down, the finest television commercial ever made. It has a cult following here, having been aired on local TV stations since (at least) the early 1990s. (Probably earlier?)
Off and on, I have been looking for this thing in digital format for years. Years. At one point I had even e-mailed Eagle Insurance to see if they'd send me a VHS copy of the commercial, all expenses paid. No response.
(Yes, I could have set my VCR to tape some random channels at random intervals. But I couldn't justify that much effort.)
Although it's been modified slightly from the original version -- it now includes slightly more advanced computer graphics, a different Eagle Man voice and a reference to a Web site -- it's still close enough to the original version to make me giddy.
Here's a direct link to the video.
Now, if somebody could Web-post the Victory Auto Wreckers commercial that has been airing on Chicago TV since the early 1980s...
UPDATE: I found the Victory Auto Wreckers commercial, along with a newspaper article about it.
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