I don’t really see any patterns, but take a look at the recent circulation information compared to the number of layoffs/buyouts at those papers during the same time period. The top U.S. circulation gainers: The Times of Northwest Indiana, Munster, Ind.: 3.01 percent Layoff/buyouts: None The Cincinnati Enquirer: 2.93 percent Layoffs/buyouts: 30 announced in October [...]

The Grand Island Independent found a clever way to use CoverItLive, a Flash-based liveblogging tool. They’re chatting with folks about the redesign of their Web site. It’s a genius use of the tool. The conversations are public (That whole transparency thing that we love, right?) and, as Grand Island learned, allowed them to immediately fix [...]

Did you see Google’s election map coverage? I’m not sure how I hadn’t seen it before, but I love it. It’s very similar to the map I want to do for Missouri’s next election.

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Friday’s earthquake shook up a few people, for sure. Did you see the Chicago Tribune’s map mashup? It was fantastic! I created a user-enabled map for the Post-Dispatch — no coding necessarily thanks to Zee Maps. But it doesn’t have the same fanciness that the Trib’s map has — next time, I need to figure [...]