Dive into the archives.
- The McGwire Brothers
Deadspin posted about Mark McGwire’s brother shopping around a book proposal, showing the truth about his use of steroids and how his brother, Jay, was the first to inject him.
This is pretty weird for me because I played football with Jay when he was a senior and I was a junior. There was always [...]
- The New Marching Orders
Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions — who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
Such [...]
- National Day of Service
Somehow I missed Monday is being changed from just a holiday to a day of service. Unfortunately, I have to work but perhaps I can still figure out a way to get involved.
Seth Godin put together a great list of possible ways to make an impact in the world.
Obie and the crew at Hashrocket [...]
- Flow Chart for Data Visualization
When you are wondering how best to show data, use this flow chart. [via]
- 2009: The Year of LinkedIn
In the current economic struggles, I think a site like LinkedIn is going to become more and more important. Sarah Lacy posts about this with the view of how LinkedIn’s engagement is going to up since more people will be looking for work and using their social contacts to find work.
- Starting a Newspaper
Seth Godin writes about he would start a newspaper with roughly six people or so. What about the institutions that have many more people already writing for publication?
When I was at The Times, a few of us had this idea, trying to capitalize on everyone’s belief that focusing on local news is [...]
- New Year, New Hope and New Challenges
Tomorrow I start employment at YellowPages.com / AT&T Interactive. Though I’m very excited and can’t wait to get started, there is still plenty of sadness and disappointment about leaving The Times.
If someone were to ask me exactly why I was leaving, I couldn’t do much better than pointing them to this post by Jeff [...]
