Theresa Badovich was laid off from the Times of Northwest Indiana on Monday. She was the managing editor for new media, and has previously served as the marketing director and design director at the paper. To say I was shocked would be an understatement. Theresa is one of journalism’s most creative, and one of the [...]

A couple of friends have launched new blogs. You should check them out. Up first: Christopher Ave. You know his work from the “Gimme the Truth,” the Politifact song (video at left). He’s also the political editor at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His other job is Music for Media, which creates music for all sorts [...]

Tuesday’s inauguration of President Barack Obama was utopia for geeks. Sure, it was streaming online, but that’s been done since President Bill Clinton’s 1997 inauguration. (I know my inauguration trivia.) And it was big on Twitter, of course. But beyond that: whitehouse.gov was relaunched before the oath of office was stumbled over. See what the [...]

Source: Looking for Lincoln Back in July I posted a tutorial on how to create a Google map from a spreadsheet without messing with code. You can now create a map with tabbed map windows — still without messing with code. Click on the markers in this map of places President Abraham Lincoln lived and [...]

It’s time for a little shameless self-promotion. My latest little project is on the history of presidential inaugurations. Good timing, too, since the next one will be sworn in on Jan. 20. It’s got everything you could want to know about each inauguration and swearing-in ceremony, word clouds of the speeches (and the speeches), photos, [...]