Greatest hits: writing
Here are some posts I've written on this site that I'm particularly proud of, either because of the topic matter or the high-quality discussion in the comments.
2012
- April 28: Moving Django to GitHub: the postmortem
2011
- November 28: Back in the Django saddle
- October 16: Introducing the YouTube Insult Generator
2009
- May 21: The definitive, two-part answer to "is data journalism?"
- May 18: Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering
2008
- December 4: Goodbye hyperlocal, hello microlocal
- May 2: Request: Headless HTML rendering engine?
- January 31: In memory of chicagocrime.org
2007
- July 6: Introducing templatemaker
2006
- October 2: J-schools, computer science and the bigger picture
- September 6: A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change
- May 15: Missouri j-school commencement speech
2005
- August 3: Job change
- May 18: Announcing chicagocrime.org
- March 18: Microformats could describe online news intelligently
2004
- December 5: 'Links via Feedster' on Washington Post and New York Times sites
- July 19: Site-specific browser extension: All Music Guide
- January 5: Give online news stories a relative importance rank
2003
- December 1: Tagging quotes in a news story
- October 26: Wanted: Browser filter features
- October 14: Mailinator changing '1 e-mail per person' mentality
- July 13: Lawrence weather site in all CSS
- June 17: Why news sites don't need specialized blog systems
- June 9: Wrapping up Find The Web Editor's Name And E-Mail Address Week
- March 27: Guidelines for fair, accurate online candidate chats
- March 25: Registration forms make it too easy to cheat
- March 17: A review of Web NCAA bracket interfaces
- March 10: Interview with Web optimization expert Andy King
- March 10: Standing up for standards
- February 24: Covering elections on LJWorld.com
- February 5: FOXNews.com advertising should be labeled in all browsers
- January 2: The need for archives by citation
2002
- December 20: Using 'smart' dates, today
- December 17: How HTML acronyms and abbreviations can help online journalism
- December 9: Trade it on Trodo
- November 28: The Case of the Mysterious Date
- November 25: A career move
- October 31: Pull-quotes on Web pages
- October 30: Link abundance gives false illusion of completeness
- October 25: Page titles on news article pages
- October 24: A follow-up on nytimes.com ad placement
- October 24: Advertising placement at nytimes.com
- September 19: Google News smarter than ever
- August 27: A blind computer user's thoughts on news Web sites
- August 26: News on the Semantic Web
- August 23: Chicagotribune.com strike countdown
- July 11: Auto-refresh on news home pages
