by Chris Snider | Nov 5, 2009 | Digital information
The Yankees won the 2009 World Series last night. So let’s take a quick look at pages from a couple national sports sites and the New York newspapers. ESPN Sports Illustrated New York Times New York Post New York Daily News I like what the Post did with the...
by Chris Snider | Sep 11, 2009 | Digital fun, Digital ideas
We don’t have pro sports teams in Iowa. We don’t host Superbowls or NCAA Final Fours. But every year we do get one game that captures our local sports audience like no other. Iowa vs. Iowa State in football. We call it the “Big Game.” (Clever,...
by Chris Snider | Sep 4, 2009 | Digital ideas
I stumbled upon a great resource from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel the other day. Their Packers bar map helps readers find a place to drink with other Packers fans (almost) anywhere in the world (apparently not South Dakota). Naturally I wanted to do the same for...
by Chris Snider | Jun 22, 2009 | Digital information
I am teaching a weeklong class on visual communication at the University of Iowa this summer, and in doing a little research for the class I discovered that the UI journalism school has a new director – David D. Perlmutter. What’s perhaps most impressive about...
by Chris Snider | Apr 19, 2009 | Digital fun
OK, maybe we don’t have it all figured out quite yet.