NFL Playoffs start today

Most of you might already know that but the New York Times have put together a nice site which breaks down the various pieces in the games. Looking at the Pro Football section of the site though, you don’t see any mention of it. I found out about it because I follow Jacob Harris on Twitter. He’s one of the developers at the NY Times.

As I mentioned, the site is very impressive and I really like the fact it is running Rails 2. I keep track of the things the NY Times is putting out because I hope it spurs us to keep trying new things, not always look for the home run but instead get some singles and doubles with little projects that can still make a large impact.

One very little thing but I found it cool was our Vote Cloud which you can see on the Campaign ’08 page. It was put together by our new database journalist with some data from AP. I helped a bit just in getting him access to servers and the like. It’s things like that which brought me to the Times and I’m hoping you’ll see more of them soon.

Becoming Digitally Savvy

Howard Owen gives a great list of things non-wired journalists can do to become digitally savvy. I think it’s awesome and I’m trying to think of how to pass it along to folks without it being viewed as some sort of slam.

Beyond that though, I think the list is something everyone should work on. Blogging, creating videos, posting pictures to Flickr, these are things that more people will be doing.