Doc Searls Weblog→ Rollday
2026-07-26 Well, two of us know With Apple Is the King of AI and Nobody Knows It, Limited Edition Jonathan does a better job of saying what I've been saying about where Personal AI is going, most recently here. …›
Category Archives: News-tech
Doc Searls Weblog→ Local radio lives in Burlington and Graham
2026-07-26 WBAG’s callsign stands for Burlington And Graham: two adjoining towns between Greensboro and Durham in North Carolina. I have many kinfolk in the hood, and have been living or visiting here all my entire life. As it happens, WBAG and I were …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Earth to Southwest (and every other service company): make your surveys about your service, not just personnel facing customers
2026-07-25 Here is what I wanted (and got) from Southwest: a clean window on a comfortable plane that i could find, board, and fly in easily. Most of that is not about flight attendants. Here is the survey hook that came in an email after a Southwest flight: …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ No body day
2026-07-25 Goldie Boone is a “digital country artist” who looks too good to be real. So I’m betting she’s not. (I wouldn’t have brought this up if she hadn’t appeared in one of my Facebook doomscroll reels.) …›
Storybench→ The Power of Words: Trump on Twitter
2026-07-24 Social media is a powerful tool that can be used to bring people together, but it can also incite violence. Public figures wield social media as a weapon to influence people’s behaviors and beliefs. Twitter is particularly effective in inciting viole …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Cryday
2026-07-24 Haven't figured out lighting yet, but I like the idea After struggling for days to make my new Epson FF-680W photo scanner, which does a much poorer job of scanning photos than my iPhone 16, I'm ready for one of these. Welcome to New York AeroX …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Thurbsday
2026-07-23 It didn’t happen in 2010, but it will in 2016. It’s still a bubble In May of 2018, I posted GDPR will pop the adtech bubble. It didn’t. The bubble is now bigger than ever. My mistake was assuming that there was a policy answer to a m …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Verilies
2026-07-22 The continuing end of broadcasting Jason Lewis: It's Over—Talk Radio (as well as traditional media) has run its course. A newer beginning Nitin Badjatia has been laying out more and more reasons—and ways—that enterprises will adapt to c …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Twistday
2026-07-21 As of 4 PM today Uh oh Tornado watch for all five New York City boroughs. How the radar & lightning map looks now. And here are planes not landing at Newark (EWR): And the last center that holds Mediapost: Sports Is The Last True Mass Medium. …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ Intelliday
2026-07-18 How about mintelligence? We need different words for human and machine intelligence. The human kind is a quality, like empathy, anger, or contentment. You can't measure it, as if with a ruler or a dipstick. If you could, you'd get the same me …›
Doc Searls Weblog→ InOrOutDay
2026-07-17 From today’s New York Times This is the first morning since I arrived in Baltimore on Wednesday that stepping outside in the morning didn’t feel like walking into an oven. It was 76° F (24.4° C), which isn’t bad. I also couldn’ …›
Storybench→ Does your next data story need a social media bot? Here’s how to build one.
2026-06-17 The age of AI chatbots is upon us, but news innovators have been experimenting with the idea of chatting to get your news for decades. Social media bots, accounts that post automatically, are an intriguing option to explore in an era of vibe-coding and …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Building the Crossplay Board
2026-06-08 How We Made a 15X15 Game Surface Feel at Home on AndriodIllustration by Lehel KovácsBy Shafik QuoraisheeWhat Is Crossplay?The New York Times Games team has been building daily puzzles for quite a while: Wordle, Spelling Bee, Connections, The Mini. T …›
Storybench→ Whose Quotes Get Cleaned Up? How News Orgs Normalize Some Voices and Scrutinize Others
2026-05-13 In mid-February, The New York Times ignited a storm of criticism with a piece about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a security conference in Munich.The article was critical (the headline included the phrase “with some stumbles”) but the …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times Games Team Delivered Accessible, Cross-Platform Dark Mode
2026-04-16 Bringing accessible, brand-consistent dark mode to life in The New York Times Games app through cross-platform design and engineering collaboration.Illustration by Allie SullbergBy Vanessa Johnson, Daniel Falokun, Michael Ingber and Oleksandr Zabiiako …›
NYT Open - Medium→ The Right Team for the Job: From Engineering to Product: A Superpower for Developer Platform…
2026-02-11 The Right Team for the Job: From Engineering to Product: A Superpower for Developer Platform StrategyIntroducing Danny Cassidy, Senior Technical Product Manager, Developer Productivity in Developer PlatformsIllustration by Claire MerchlinskyBy Geethu …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Building The New York Times Product Team: The Right Team for the Job
2026-02-11 Illustration by Giacomo BagnaraBy Nikki Larson, Erica Vendetti and Michael BeachOur mission is simple: We seek the truth and help people understand the world. Accomplishing that mission requires each of us to build trust, seek out different perspecti …›
NYT Open - Medium→ How The New York Times is scaling Unit Test Coverage using AI Tools
2026-01-13 How AI tools are helping our software engineers write better tests at scaleIllustration by Nick LittleBy Eric Chima and Leonardo QuixadáAt The New York Times, we’re all excited to build fresh new experiences that delight our users. Our product ma …›
NYT Open - Medium→ Designing a Digital New York Times Museum
2025-10-15 How five product design interns created an award-winning virtual museum experience for employeesIllustration by Lucas BurtinBy Nuoran Chen, Mina Chung, Frannie Ello, Christina Su, and Bella RinneA key element of The New York Times Product Design Inte …›
NYT Open - Medium→ The New York Times Games’ Path to Dark Mode
2025-09-25 How we designed a deceptively complex featureIllustration by Alessandro GottardoBy Joel Urena, Jenna Kim, Kenneth Ofosu, Shaka Clark, Raven Adaramola, Dylan CampbellAt least once a day, our players requested a Dark Mode feature for The New York Times …›
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 …›
Source→ Product manager diary: What I learned taking an intro course in web development
2024-09-03 By Madison Karas (Photo by Pankaj Patel on Unsplash) A few months ago, I wrote in SOURCE about learning to work with development teams and software vendors as a new news product manager. My next step at the time: taking an introduction to …›
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 …›