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Monthly Archives: April 2009

Not How You Start

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17th Hole, Quail Hollow
Pulling into the (wrong) parking lot, I was already nervous. I, like one of our playing partners Chris, have no problem speaking to a thousand people. But I’d never hit a golf ball in front of a real gallery, and certainly I’d never been introduced to do so.
As I chatted [...]

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Finalist for EPpy

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From Editor & Publisher, this year’s nominees for Best Website with over 1 million unique users per month:

The Charlotte Observer, charlotteobserver.com
The Globe and Mail, globeandmail.com
The Wall Street Journal Online, WSJ.com

Winners announced May 7, and I’m working on being there in person.
Our team feels a lot of things… mostly thankful and excited to be in such [...]

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ThatsRacin.com v3.1

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One might consider us ADD if you think that we just did a major release on thatsracin.com about two months ago. But that’s not the whole story.
Our parent company, McClatchy, helped us with a user study that showed our racing readers wanted more images and a more entertainment-looking site. So we dove in.
Visually, [...]

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Slow Death of Media Site Registration?

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Subtitle: How Facebook (and/or Other Connect Platforms) Can Help Remove Anonymity in Comments
Not speaking for my parent company on this, but I think having to register for site commenting — at least on media sites — is likely doomed to the internet archive of old practices.
Historically, there were two main reasons to require registration. They [...]

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