@import url("http://graphicdesignr.net/docs/table.css"); Forget the chit-chat, let’s get right to it: Greatest increase in followers The Charleston Gazette @gazette_opinion 875 percent Chicago Sun-Times @suntimes 588.06 percent Seattle Post-Intelligencer @bigblog 351.85 percent Chicago Sun-Times @cst_couch 320 percent St. Louis Post-Dispatch @gostl 300 percent Atlanta Journal-Constitution @bestofthebiga 257.14 percent New York Times @vindugoel 193.33 percent Chicago Sun-Times @cst_marin [...]

Back in July, I talked to designer/artist-extraordinaire Amy Martin. She had been laid off from The Los Angeles Times and was offering to help her job-seeking co-workers redesign their résumés. That was incredibly inspiring. Amy sent an update on Saturday: Two exciting things happened this week: 1) the poster I designed for Manifest Hope is [...]

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain were at it again — their second debate was at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. CNN has the transcript of the debate; I took who said what and, using Wordle, created word clouds. The clouds represent the 150 most frequently used words; the larger the words, the more [...]

I’m behind on posts. I will soon have September’s numbers for newspapers that use Twitters — data collected, mostly crunched, just needs some finishing touches. I’m also a little behind on updating layoffs and buyouts. (My bid to get newspapers to stop laying off people is not working.) But in the meantime, just in time [...]

Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin debated at Washington University on Thursday night. CNN has the transcript of the debate. From the transcript, I separated what Biden said vs. what Palin said and, using Wordle, created word clouds. The clouds represent the 150 most frequently used words; the larger the word, [...]