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 | Mar 12, 2009 | Digital ideas
Here’s a fun little interactive that the Indy Star put together for the Big Ten men’s basketball tournament. It’s a good idea for any city that hosts some sort of post-season basketball tournament.
by Chris Snider | Mar 1, 2009 | Digital ideas
I’m sure you’ve heard stories about Twitter beating traditional news media on breaking news. Some of this can be attributed to the fact that traditional news media have certain standards for verifying news. But another factor is that we still feel the need...
by Chris Snider | Feb 28, 2009 | Digital ideas
If you work for a newspaper, please take the time to watch this: Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo. Obviously the Rocky was in a different situation than most newspapers (being in a two-newspaper town). But I hope this opens a few more eyes to the fact we...
by Chris Snider | Feb 15, 2009 | Digital ideas
Need some online inspiration? Just take a stroll through some other web sites and learn from what others are doing. With that in mind, here are five ideas that could benefit almost any news web site out there: The azcentral.com live module. Nothing complicated here....
by Chris Snider | Jan 12, 2009 | Digital ideas
What if our number one goal was to publish a great web site? How would we do things differently? Would our daily news meetings be structured differently? Would our planning budgets look different? Would people sit in different places in the newsroom? Would we still...
