Doc Searls Weblog→ TGI Fly Day
2026-02-20 Naturally, I'll talk about MyTerms It's off to California, where I'll speak (and listen!) at the Summit on Human Agency. …›
Category Archives: News-tech
Doc Searls Weblog→ Tornado Spotting
2026-02-20 I left dinner at the Uptown to stand at the corner of Kirkwood and College in downtown Bloomington, Indiana, to shoot the tornado my phone just told me had formed eight miles west of there. That’s where I was facing when I shot this video, f …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Thens Day
2026-02-19 Be there Surveillance-based pricing (just for you!) will be the subject of this talk at 4pm Eastern today. Register and attend at that link. …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Webless Day
2026-02-18 Perspective 10 Largest Things in Nature That Will Make You Feel Incredibly Small. The only one I didn't know about was Salar de Uyuni, the world's largest salt flat. It covers 4,086 square miles. And the Internet caused Obama and Trump. Also, …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Remembranes
2026-02-17 Never too late for the late Today is Ron Phillips' birthday. He died five years ago, but his absence remains constant and heart-wrenching. I'm also sad to note that I haven't written a proper remembrance for him here. So that's now on m …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Where Are We?
2026-02-16 Extra points if you can say where this is. What you’re reading is written and posted on the Web. While the Web isn’t a place, we know it as one. The language we use to describe it is concrete and structural: domains at locations, with s …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Moan Day
2026-02-16 Cycloptery Seventy-two hours since my cataract surgery and nothing is better. The cornea of my left eye is still swollen and I'm essentially blind (meaning my vision is 20/infinity. It also feels better closed than open, which I'm not sure is …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Some Day
2026-02-15 Now, let's try that with a human body part Tom's Hardware: In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Love
2026-02-14 The first thing my wife heard me say was “I’m a Leo, so I don’t believe in astrology.” She’s a Scorpio, and that’s her constellation, above another of my affections, the Walnut Grove tower farm in California’s …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Eye Day
2026-02-13 Cyclops time. Thirteen years ago, when I was just entering the final demographic, I had the cataract in my right eye replaced. It was a quick and easy procedure that left me with 20/10 vision when I walked out the door of the surgery center. It's s …›
Storybench→ Inside the Files: The Reporting That Rewrote Uvalde’s Story
2026-01-15 As the school day started on May 24, 2022, students and families at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Texas were celebrating the end of the school year with trophies, friends and family. Many of those parents would never take their kids home. Hours later, 18- …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Using Provocations to Shake the Status Quo
2025-07-22 The bold approach NYT Cooking used to define a strategy for recipe cards.Illustration by Ben DenzerBy Jayne LeeIn The New York Times Cooking, “cards,” or the containers that represent our content, are the first impression of our brand. They’re …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Developing an Internal Tool for Our Puzzle Editor
2025-06-02 How we developed a dashboard tool created to help ease the workflow of managing puzzles for our Connections editor.Illustration by Su Yun SongBy Shafik Quoraishee and Wyna LiuIn the game Connections, every puzzle is a meticulously crafted challenge d …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Game Designer Heidi Erwin Creates Variety Puzzles
2025-05-27 An in-depth look at the process of making the weekly “Brain Ticklers” for The New York Times Gameplay newsletter.Illustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Heidi ErwinMost of my work as a Senior Game Designer at The New York Times is oriented around the …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Accessibility: Requirements, Not Features
2025-04-25 Shipping fast often means shrinking scope — but accessibility deserves permanence, not compromise. At The New York Times, product managers embedded it into how our teams think, build, and deliver using the power of the three P’s: People, Proces …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times systematically migrated from Enzyme into React Testing Library
2025-03-03 How we navigated the shift from Enzyme to React Testing Library at The New York Times.Illustration by Iris LeiBy Felipe BuenañoAs part of our efforts to maintain and improve the functionality and performance of The New York Times core website, we r …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Incorporates Editorial Judgement in Algorithms to Curate Home Screen Content
2024-10-02 A look into how editorially-driven algorithms assist content curation on The New York Times home page.Illustration by Vivek ThakkerBy Zhen YangWhether on the web or the app, the home page of The New York Times is a crucial gateway, setting the stage …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Enhancing The New York Times Web Performance with React 18
2024-06-26 How upgrading to React 18 energized The New York Times website — and how we tackled some of the challenges we faced along the way.Illustration by Ben HickeyBy Ilya GurevichAs software engineers at The New York Times, we place a high value on p …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Milestones on our Journey to Standardize Experimentation at The New York Times
2024-03-26 Illustration by Henri CampeãBy Kathy YangExperimentation is an important part of product development at The New York Times — it helps us measure the impact of our changes, ship features safely, and gain insight into user behavior. Experiments …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Rethinking How We Evaluate The New York Times Subscription Performance
2024-03-08 An exploration into The New York Times Growth Data team’s process of designing and building a new subscription reporting model.Illustration by Giulio BonaseraBy Amir MalekThe New York Times digital subscription offering is a complex service that ha …›
Articles and Investigations - ProPublica→ Visualizing Toxic Air
2022-08-22 by Lylla Younes and Al Shaw ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigate …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Look Up Nursing Home Staff COVID-19 Vaccination Rates
2022-04-21 by Ruth Talbot On Thursday, ProPublica added staff COVID-19 vaccination data to the Nursing Home Inspect project. The virus has killed more than 150,000 nursi …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ New: View an Organization’s Employees and Officers on Nonprofit Explorer
2021-05-14 by Andrea Suozzo On Friday, we updated our Nonprofit Explorer database in two big ways. First, we’ve added the ability to view key employees and officers right on an orga …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ She Photographed Police Abuse at a 2014 BLM March Then Watched the Image Go Viral During Capitol Riot
2021-01-11 by Lisa Larson-Walker In the midst of Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol, Twitter user @thejuliacarter gave voice to the outrage many felt at the stark difference be …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Meet the Baconator
2020-10-02 by Frank Sharpe As a member of the team responsible for keeping ProPublica’s website online, there were times when I wished our site were static. Static sites have a simp …›
INN Labs→ Pym.js Embeds version 1.3.2.3: Now with AMP ⚡️ support!
2020-03-06 It's hard to do truly custom interactives work within WordPress. INN Labs' Pym.js Embeds plugin is built to make it easier for your newsroom to embed your latest data project, with help from NPR's Pym.js library. Other solutions often involve p …›
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The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ I Spent Three Years Running a Collaboration Across Newsrooms. Here’s What I Learned.
2019-12-13 by Rachel Glickhouse ProPublica’s Documenting Hate collaboration comes to a close next month after nearly three years. It brought together hundreds of newsrooms around th …›
INN Labs→ WordPress vs. Drupal: Which CMS is Best for You?
2019-12-03 WordPress and Drupal are both powerful Content Management Systems (CMS’s) and two of the most popular ones in use today. There are several key differences between the two, and selecting the best fit has more to do with the specific goals an …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Building a Database From Scratch: Behind the Scenes With Documenting Hate Partners
2019-10-23 by Rachel Glickhouse For nearly three years, ProPublica’s Documenting Hate project has given newsrooms around the country access to a database of personal reports sent to …›
INN Labs→ Do’s and Don’ts of WordPress Security
2019-10-04 With a great WordPress site comes great responsibility. WordPress offers journalists a distinguished platform to publish and distribute their content, but keeping your site safe and secure can seem like an overwhelming and daunting task. Luckily, …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Making Collaborative Data Projects Easier: Our New Tool, Collaborate, Is Here
2019-09-11 by Rachel Glickhouse On Wednesday, we’re launching a beta test of a new software tool. It’s called Collaborate, and it makes it possible for multiple newsrooms to work …›
INN Labs→ NewsMatch Pop Up Best Practices
2019-08-30 There have been some changes since our last blog post around Pop Up best practices for NewsMatch and other special campaigns, so we're releasing an updated guide. Here are some general recommendations and best practices for using popups as part of …›
INN Labs→ Introducing our newest Largo redesign: Workday Minnesota
2019-08-16 Workday Minnesota began publishing in 2000 with support from Minnesota’s labor community and was the first online labor news publication in the United States. Since then, Workday has won many awards and has grown to be a trusted source for news …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Working Together Better: Our Guide to Collaborative Data Journalism
2019-08-14 by Rachel Glickhouse Today we’re launching a guidebook on how newsrooms can collaborate around large datasets. Since our founding 11 years ago, ProPublica h …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ Making Sense of Messy Data
2019-08-07 Angeliki Kastanis, Associated Press I used to work as a sound mixer on film sets, noticing any hums and beeps that would make an actor’s performance useless after a long …›
INN Labs→ Announcing Largo 0.6.4
2019-07-19 This week's release of updates to the Largo WordPress theme is all about improvements for images, pull quotes, and media. It also brings improved compatibility and editorial functions for the WordPress Block Editor. This release includes: An exa …›
INN Labs→ SRCCON 2019 – A first-timer’s recap
2019-07-15 Miranda with Jonathan Kealing (INN’s Chief Network Officer) and INN Members Candice Forman from Outlier Media and Asraa Mustufa from Chicago Reporter. We had a blast meeting and chatting in person! I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect going in …›
INN Labs→ Largo site wins Cleveland Press Club magazine website award
2019-06-21 Ben Keith and Lucia Walinchus with Eye on Ohio's first-place award for magazine website. The award plaque. We're happy to relay the news that INN Member Eye on Ohio won First Place Magazine Website in the Press Club of Cleveland's ann …›
The ProPublica Nerd Blog - ProPublica→ “Your Default Position Should Be Skepticism” and Other Advice for Data Journalists From Hadley Wickham
2019-06-10 by Hannah Fresques and Meg Marco So you want to explore the world through data. But how do you actually *do* it? Hadley Wickham is a leading developer of open …›