I taught a WordPress class tonight and was stymied by a simple question that I should have known the answer to. So Austin, this one’s for you: To create a page that lists all of your blog posts, in the event that you want your homepage to be a static page, do the following: Go […]
I am working with the Washington State Jewish Historical Society to help them build a digital museum and history portal. I’m chronicling my direction and strategy for the project as I go along. Now that I’ve gotten more comfortable in the office and have an idea of where to find the bathroom and emergency exits, […]
In late February I began a project to build a digital museum for the Washington State Jewish Historical Society. This is a new initiative for them — they have long had a website to represent what the organization does, and put together a project-based site a few years back based on famous and not-so-famous Jewish […]
Today, January 27, is the 71st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. How am I supposed to feel about that? Happy? Relieved? Upset that we have to commemorate the end of such a horrific era in our world’s history? I know about this day because a friend posted a link to an article about it […]
White paper originally published June 2015. Sample datasets can be found here. The question: “In an age of social media, do comments sections still have value?” This is the question posed by Chantal Braganza in J-Source.ca, the Canadian Journalism Project, regarding the ongoing problems news sites have had with vitriolic comments and flame wars […]
Originally published June 2014 I bought a bourgeois house in the Hollywood hills With a trunkload of hundred thousand dollar bills Man came by to hook up my cable TV We settled in for the night my baby and me We switched ‘round and ‘round ‘til half-past dawn There was fifty-seven channels and nothin’ on […]
If you’re in Seattle, and you’ve been interested in learning how to lay out things like brochures, posters, menus, websites – anything, really – you’d benefit from learning InDesign. Adobe InDesign is the industry standard in layout for both print and online, and as flexible as it is, people often need a little help to […]
Let’s say, just for the heck of it, hypothetically of course, that a local TV station contracted with me to figure out their content strategy across a multitude of devices. Wh at would it look like? What are the challenges that news stations face today that have kept them from realizing their potential to reach […]
This is Part 2 of a series on bringing TV news into the modern age. See Part 1 here. Now that we’ve established where the industry is, let’s talk about making it better. And what does that mean to make it better? Let’s admit it. We wouldn’t have to do much to make incremental improvements. […]
This is Part 3 of a series on bringing TV news into the modern age. See Part 1 and Part 2 here. TV news is TV-focused. A legacy product like the 11 O’Clock news has a lot invested in its brand. And stations get a lot in return from advertisers and viewer loyalty, which has […]