I’ve been busy. And that’s what this post is about.
So lets get to the new job first — read below the jump.
Note: The following will only be interesting to my parents (Hi Mim, Hi Dad). But I want to blog them for future nostalgia purposes (and because this blog is all about my ego). Plus one joke that professor Porter made in his evaluation just made me drop on the floor and laugh: He got the last word.
Last week I was in New Media hell. This week I can bask in that glory. Me and my fellow co-horts have re-started NYC24.
The homepage design is sleek and cool. Inside each issue you will find seven stories that revolve around a specific theme.
The theme for this issue is heights.
So me and my partner Ahmed Shihab-Eldin (a great multi-media journalist who was also my editor on the story about Digg for CJR) did our piece on the High Line — an unused railway in New York.
I really prefer working online. I’ve always been a fan of working with text. But on these projects text seems to fall in the background while we run around like chickens without a head trying to finish the flash interactives, photoshop files and dreamweaver layout.
It’s a lot of work. But all in all, well worth it.
I love the New York Times. So I’ll try and put a positive spin on this.
"The Alarm Clock as a Moving Target. Catch it if You Can"
WAY TO GO GUYS! — You are only about two years late on this one (and the positive note: A Columbia J-Student wrote about this in April of 05′.
Here’s my new editorial voice coming out: It’s okay to be a little late covering breaking news. It happens to me too at NewAssignment.Net (although I can’t pay my writers — so I have to work with their schedule), but why would you be two years late to tout something like a moving alarm clock? It must have been a slow news day.
