Our friend and former colleague Charles Blow has joined the blogging brethren with a discussion on all things statistical. A visual Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times, Charles served as the paper’s graphics director and as Design Director for News prior to leaving to become Art Director of National Geographic. Back in the day, [...]

As news industry conferences go, this is the good one. The right-brainers who attend SND’s annual designfest have managed to make newspapers and websites around the world more interesting and accessible, even as their left-brainer publishers screwed up a coupla good mediums. Somehow, the creative class has remained enthusiastic about the future.
SND is sharing the [...]

Just when you or your favorite school teacher thought there was no way in hell the English language could survive the abomination of text message shorthand, aka textese, a British linguist has thrown a bucket of cold water on the world’s SMS malcontents. David Crystal writes in his new book, Txtng: the Gr8 Db8, that [...]

Adrian Holovaty is the news industry’s favorite techie, even as he develops a kind of news that is changing the newspaper game.
EveryBlock, his latest project funded with a $1.1 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, enables citizens to create a profile of their own neighborhood by utilizing the [...]

And you thought editors are jerks. ValleyWag celebrates the ten terrible tyrants of technology. Somehow Oracle’s Larry Ellison was left offt. But the Michael Arrington video makes up for it.

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One of our partners, LaunchBox Digital, is an early-stage Internet startup incubator fund. It’s similar in structure to TechStars in Boulder, Colorado. Startup companies - or founders with ideas that could become companies - apply to participate. The projects selected for the fund commit to spending the summer working with the fund’s founders and their [...]