On Monday we drive to Columbia, Mo. where I am joining the Missouri School of Journalism faculty as a professor and Knight Chair in Digital Editing and Producing. The official announcement is here. I can’t begin to describe how exciting this opportunity is. Mizzou is the oldest journalism school in the country. (Also the best […]
How is that for a niche SEO headline? When I migrated to a new MacBook Air – for some reason EndNote would not open citation files (.enw) by default. The trick is supposed to be ‘right click on the document to select and set the default app.’ EndNote would seem to be set as default, […]
My first-day advice to new members of the team boils down to, “Don’t worry, you are going to be totally miserable in about three months.” We all know the excitement of that first day at work. There are new people to meet, new projects to learn and new roles and responsibilities to master. Part of […]
The challenge of personalizing the news is the heterogeneity of our personal interests and the weakness of the signal we expose to the recommendation engine. As an example, below are four stories from around the country I was interested in today, for reasons ranging from ‘possibly obvious’ to ‘unknowable’ by an algorithm. And by ‘unknowable’ I mean how likely would […]
I can’t remember the first (or last time) I heard this proverb but I am convinced it is an allegory for product management and technical debt. For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; For want of the shoe, the horse was lost; For want of the horse, the rider was lost; For want of the rider, the battle was lost; For want […]