On March 18, Dan Meth created a U.S. sitcom map. (That followed his popular New York map of sitcoms.) On April 2, Flowing Data issued a challenge to improve the U.S. map. Today I finished this interactive map of sitcom locations. (And by finished, I mean someone already mentioned two more sitcoms that should be [...]

Do you have a fierce portfolio? What is a fierce portfolio? I’m not sure. But the people behind “CMYK — America’s Top Graphic Designer” are looking for them. And clichéd “out-of-the-box” creativity. Grab your résumé, your fierce portfolio, fill out the application (Under Consideration has some great answers to their questions) and get to one [...]

There’s a reason newspapers aren’t doing so well: They’re not happy. (The people, not the newspapers, although you could argue both.) A 30-year University of Maryland study finds that unhappy people watch more TV and read fewer newspapers. To get more people to read they paper, more people must be happy! (Is this why so [...]

KTVI, the local Fox station, and KPLR, the local CW affiliate, will move to KPLR’s Maryland Heights offices and share a newsroom in an attempt to cut costs. Newscasts will not overlap. (We thought it strange when KPLR started an hour-long newscast at 7 p.m.) The new agreement goes into effect on Oct. 1. A [...]