My new sidebar, or how I integrated Publish2 and Google Reader

You can talk all the smack you want to about link journalism and its related buzzword, curation, but Publish2 is a convenient service. Case in point: The new sidebar on this blog. From now on, it will display 10 links to articles or blog posts I’m reading. All I have to do is save the [...]

Video: Spokane woman, 60, conquers Everest

Co-workers Colin Mulvany and Rich Landers teamed up again to produce this story about 60-year-old mountaineer Kay LeClaire’s conquest of Mount Everest. Watch through to the end; it’s worth it.

Rescued puppies and a quick slideshow

It’s about 4 p.m. on a Friday in the newsroom. We’ve got a reporter and a photographer back from the arrival in Spokane of 50 American Eskimo dogs from a puppy mill in Kennewick, Wash.
We’ve got about eight photos and some audio. I’m asked to put it all together in a slideshow. And I couldn’t [...]

Photos from Prague and Budapest

I’ve got a lot of catching up to do on this blog.
I spent the first half of May traveling in Central Europe. Pleasure, not business. So I think I’ll ease back into this with some photos from my trip. I recommend clicking the full-screen button in the lower right of the player.
Prague
I spent about six [...]

Links for December 15th through December 16th

Links for December 15th through December 16th:

Detroit’s big news as seen from a key design insider – SND Update – Matt Mannsfield gets some extra dirt on Tuesday's big newspaper shakeup in Detroit.
Spot.us – Story: Bay Area Cement Plants and Global Warming – A good example of package reporting and entrepreneurial publishing ideas. Let's hope [...]