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Apr 5, 2018
The Best Training
Feb 24, 2017
For John Goldsmith
Feb 6, 2015
For Grandma
Nov 28, 2013
A Voice of Thanksgiving
Sep 12, 2013
That Morning
Mar 19, 2013
Steve Coll
Feb 16, 2013
The Ink-Stained Wretch's weblog: Your new baby is ugly
Feb 4, 2013
The One That Mattered
Feb 4, 2013
Sacramento Bee
Feb 4, 2013
Fresno Bee
Feb 4, 2013
The State
Feb 4, 2013
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Feb 4, 2013
Arizona Republic
Feb 4, 2013
Lexington Herald-Leader
Feb 4, 2013
Chronicle of Higher Education
Feb 4, 2013
Dayton Daily News
Feb 4, 2013
Boston Globe
Feb 4, 2013
Birmingham News
Feb 4, 2013
Times-Picayune
Feb 4, 2013
The New York Times
Feb 4, 2013
Anthea Watson Strong: Some Thoughts on Investing in Infrastructure for Civic Technology
Feb 3, 2013
The best internship rejection letter
Jan 24, 2013
Magic Removal
Jan 14, 2013
On Aaron Swartz
Dec 17, 2012
no title
Dec 15, 2012
On Vengeance
Dec 10, 2012
We make plans based on our ideas, but we obey our pain.
Dec 3, 2012
Thoughts on NewsFoo
Nov 27, 2012
How I Got Here
Nov 9, 2012
What I've Been Up To Lately
Oct 22, 2012
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Sep 17, 2012
Uninvited
Jul 26, 2012
Would Have Voted Present
Jul 23, 2012
daniel sinker: OpenNews: Why Develop in the Newsroom?
Jul 11, 2012
As someone who worked extensively with data from the Census Bureau during my 11-year career as a journalist, and who continues to tinker with it today purely for my own amusement, $33.3 million seems like an APPALLINGLY LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO WASTE ON THE USELESS BOONDOGGLE THAT IS THE AMERICAN FACTFINDER, WHICH, AS ANYONE WHO HAS TRIED TO USE THE THING WILL NO DOUBT ATTEST, NO DOUBT WHILE SHOUTING OR TYPING IN ALL CAPS, NO DOUBT WHILE WAVING THEIR ARMS ABOUT IN A MANNER THAT COULD BE DESCRIBED AS COMICAL IF NOT FOR THE CRAZED LOOK IN THEIR EYES, IS A USELESS BOONDOGGLE THAT IS USELESS AND A BOONDOGGLE.
Jun 21, 2012
Knight News Challenge Round 2: VOTER: The Versatile Online Tabulator for Election Results
Jun 19, 2012
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Jun 15, 2012
It’s entirely possible that Sally Quinn no longer understands that what she’s writing is read by America, that the Washington Post is not—despite its primary function—one of those inter-office novelty papers circulated in giant law firms that tell everyone how the softball team is doing. It’s probably impossible to produce something more tone deaf to human beings—short of re-shooting the opening of 48 Hours with Eddie Murphy in the amputee wing of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, wearing headphones and screeching out Country Joe and the Fish’s “Fixin’ to Die Rag.”
Jun 13, 2012
Knight News Challenge Round 2: The Mapping L.A. API
Jun 13, 2012
no title
Jun 12, 2012
Knight News Challenge Round 2: OpenElections
Jun 9, 2012
That night, as England floundered, many of us felt emotionally distant. It is a dangerous game the FA have played, engaging on such a powerfully human level. It cannot be predicted how an individual will react. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/euro2012/article-2156188/Martin-Samuel-This-Auschwitz–Van-Persie-Italy-Germany-come-England-trying-right-thing.html#ixzz1xIw829Tg
Jun 7, 2012
daniel sinker: OpenNews: Source comes into focus
May 17, 2012
Matt Langer: this could have been like ten tweets or one blog post so here's to economy i guess
May 10, 2012
Regulate This
May 7, 2012
storyboard the morgue lives it is a cramped
May 3, 2012
The Mountain Top
Apr 29, 2012
all in a row
Mar 11, 2012
NYT @ SXSW: Getting a decent data connection at SXSW can be a challenge, given...
Jan 27, 2012
cjchivers a few minutes ago i was skimming
Dec 8, 2011
the last word
Oct 24, 2011
gis analyses of dr snows map
Dec 25, 2010
Where Joy Lives