The Washington Post To Create WPNYC, a New York-Based Design and Development Office

March 03 Comments Off on The Washington Post To Create WPNYC, a New York-Based Design and Development Office Category: Feed, Tumblr

The Washington Post To Create WPNYC, a New York-Based Design and Development Office:

The Washington Post is building a NYC-based Tech/Design unit. Why? No apparent good reason. 

Speculation: Either they’re planning on expanding their Markets/Business (difficult) or NYC (near-impossible) coverage or they’re planning to roll out web- or mobile-based tools as stand-alone products (or a product line) and are finding the ‘start-up community’ insufficient in the DC area to support, staff and publicize such an endeavor.

There is an additional alternative, but one I think truly unlikely, that they simply can’t find the quantity and quality of tech/design staff they need in the DC Metro Area. By my knowledge, this is impossible. The people are all there, the only difference I can think of is that tech people get paid less in NYC than DC, and that’s why I’m maintaining this as a remote possibility. 

WaPo has been increasingly becoming a local paper and political focus-publication. There’s unlikely to be a space in the market or industry for it to turn that around. So what’s the reasoning behind this?

NOTE: They aren’t moving into a new office, apparently they still are in the Slate office, thus this makes a whole lot more sense. Via.

EDIT: I’d forgotten that Trove is not part of the Bezos owned WaPo.

‘Dear Dylan’: The Wonkblog advice column for everything

August 17 Comments Off on ‘Dear Dylan’: The Wonkblog advice column for everything Category: Feed, Tumblr

‘Dear Dylan’: The Wonkblog advice column for everything:

“In the future, basically the only criteria for names will be, ‘Will my son or daughter be the first Google hit for this name?’ and ‘Will I able to buy TheirFirstNameAndLastName.com?’”

I read that and laughed and laughed and laughed. 

56 worst/best analogies of high school students

January 24 Comments Off on 56 worst/best analogies of high school students Category: Uncategorized

URL:  http://www.losteyeball.com/index.php/2007/06/19/56-wors…  Hilarious! Read these for a good laugh.