As you can see, I’ve implemented a new WordPress theme on ye olde weblog. It’s a custom-built layout, with a fair amount of typography from the open-source “Alibi” theme, supplemented with some fancy font faces from Google’s font api. I think it looks cleaner and more modern. What’s your opinion?
A fine, fine piece of work.
Happy new year, friends. Cheers to you all.
This video is great. I particularly love it that it zeros out in Chicago, just south of the Loop, by Lake Michigan. Full-screen this baby, and sit back and enjoy.
So tomorrow is December 1, which is the deadline for entries into the Knight News Challenge, an annual contest for innovative ideas for the intersection of technology and news, funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. I (along with my buddy Eric Marden) have an entry in this year’s competition. It’s a … Read more
This post is an amalgam of several emails I sent to a private journalism-related listserv. I’ve got a project brewing in the ol’ noggin relating to journalism, objectivity, and transparency. I figured I’d post this publicly, in the hopes of soliciting more opinions, so please feel free to post in the comments. So, one of … Read more
You can tell that winter is coming soon, as evidenced by all the sailboats coming down the Chicago river today, headed for milder climes until the spring thaw. On a related note, downtown drawbridges are in use today, so traffic beware.
So, this is kind of interesting. I noticed a story on Utne Reader about some great visualizations that a gentleman named Eric Fischer made, using demographic information from the 2000 Census to map out which ethnicities lived where, to demonstrate the kind of de facto segregation that still happens in cities in the US. That, … Read more
See, folks, this is why October in Chicago is so great. Just look at this list! So many horror movies! So little time! Oct. 1 Chain Letter, wide release Let Me In, wide release Case 39, wide release Hatchet II, wide release 13 Ghosts, Facets Cinematheque Ed Gein, The Musical, Music Box Oct. 2 Satanico … Read more