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Posted by Chris on November 06, 2008 at 09:21 AM

Turning Indiana Blue

StarFiles: Obama in Indiana - More IndyStar Galleries View this gallery at IndyStar: StarFiles: Obama in Indiana I woke up...

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Posted by Chris on May 19, 2008 at 03:27 PM

Finding somebody's Google Reader shared page

So, after attending the Interactive Media Conference last week (and picking up an Eppy for Indy.com, natch), I found myself...

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Posted by Chris on May 15, 2008 at 11:59 AM

A clarification

My last post might have been a little too bombastic, so allow me to backtrack a bit and get to...

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Posted by Chris on May 09, 2008 at 01:58 PM

F--- video*

Newspapers everywhere are falling all over themselves to do web videos. It’s a goddamn waste of time and counter-productive to...

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Posted by Chris on July 27, 2007 at 10:54 PM

Volume is the future

I switched from print design to online development a year and a half ago because I was frustrated with the...

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Posted by Chris on April 30, 2007 at 06:52 AM

Introducing IndyPaws

From the people what brung you IndyMoms.com, comes IndyPaws.com: Central Indiana’s one-stop shop for all your pets’ social networking needs.I...

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Posted by Chris on April 11, 2007 at 08:58 AM

endless_pageless: An unobtrusive pageless pagination in Rails plugin

NOTE: Whoa, that’s an old entry here folks. Give me a little bit to get it squared back away (like...

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Posted by Chris on March 23, 2007 at 06:07 AM

Widgetize your world

I had this idea with the first photo system I built, but today I managed to make it a reality...

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Posted by Chris on March 19, 2007 at 08:56 AM

Unobtrusive Pageless Pagination in Rails

Inspired a lot by a keen dislike of pagination and more than a little by Unspace’s starting point, I started...

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Posted by Chris on March 12, 2007 at 10:00 PM

The trunk for the branches

It might have something to do with my current project at work, but I’ve been thinking a lot lately about...

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Posted by Chris on March 01, 2007 at 11:02 PM

The path of least resistance

When building ”Steve,” one of the ways I wanted to stretch the photo gallery concept I’ve been fiddling with and...

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Posted by Chris on February 27, 2007 at 12:18 PM

Search the metadata, not the photo

In newsrooms across the country, we’ve already figured out how to quickly search and manage copious amounts of photos. Photo...

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Posted by Chris on November 06, 2006 at 09:54 PM

Going Indy

I'm sitting in a cheap hotel off Interstate 70 inside the 465 beltway surrounding Indianapolis, IN, with a stack of...

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Posted by Chris on September 22, 2006 at 10:56 PM

Database Journalism in the darkroom

Database journalism, it's a big word (or two actually) and all the rage these days. Everybody's abuzz about storing stories...

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Posted by Chris on June 27, 2006 at 08:30 PM

Zenphoto goes (relatively) big time

I reviewed a release of Zenphoto a while back, and I never really forgot about this little gem of a...

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Posted by Chris on June 15, 2006 at 02:10 PM

Open-ing wider

After a near-constant blur of work over the past few months, the U.S. Open is here and our not-100-percent-ready-for-primetime website...

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Posted by Chris on May 12, 2006 at 10:43 AM

The Open's opening

I've been at the new job for nearly a month now and it's been pretty much everything I expected it...

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Posted by Chris on March 02, 2006 at 07:18 PM

You already are a blog ...

And it's time to start acting like one. I've mentioned this offhandedly before, this idea that newspaper websites are already...

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Posted by Chris on February 17, 2006 at 05:45 PM

Simplifying print URLs

Let's say you produce a print product (be it newspaper, magazine, zine or newsletter) and a web product. Sometimes in...

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Posted by Chris on January 30, 2006 at 08:39 PM

Newspapers and the search game

Jason Kottke's ad-hoc research on the search-engine ranking of New York Times articles doesn't really surprise me. Newspaper websites, as...

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Posted by Chris on January 29, 2006 at 05:16 PM

Set it and forget it

One of the fun things about setting up my sister's website is using her site as an excuse to hack...

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Posted by Chris on November 22, 2005 at 05:15 PM

Making Movable Type fluid

Movable Type, the publishing engine that (used to run) this site, comes complete with a fixed-width layout (much like the...

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Posted by Chris on November 11, 2005 at 04:09 PM

Getting it right

So, I've talked a lot so far about what newspaper companies do wrong when they stumble toward the digital age....

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Posted by Chris on November 07, 2005 at 04:08 PM

The Technical Details

I'd like to think that most people who design websites professionally or even semi-professionally would already know about web standards...

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Posted by Chris on November 02, 2005 at 01:36 AM

The Big Picture

As I've mentioned on my bio page, my night job is with a daily newspaper. I design newspaper pages for...

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Posted by Chris on September 12, 2005 at 04:59 PM

The limits of MT

The more I work with Movable Type, the more I am becoming frustrated with certain parts of it. It's a...

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Posted by Chris on August 31, 2005 at 06:53 PM

Commented simple template

Okay. I managed to sneak away from my wife's family long enough to comment up a file of the simplified...

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Posted by Chris on August 29, 2005 at 05:00 PM

Simpler Movable Type templates

So, as Pam and I still slog away at laying the groundwork for our business idea, I've been signed up...

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