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Jacob Harris    October 13, 2011
Word clouds considered harmful
The New York Times senior software architect would like the newest “mullets of the Internet” to go back from whence they came.
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Vadim Lavrusik    July 25, 2011
Vadim Lavrusik: Five key building blocks to incorporate as we’re rethinking the structure of stories
How is the Internet influencing the core elements of narrative and storytelling?
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Megan Garber    July 20, 2011
Webs and whirligigs: Marshall McLuhan in his time and ours
He can’t be reduced to a handful of pithy quotes, but McLuhan has something to say about our new world of frayed ends rather than neat endings.
Instapaper, Read It Later, Byliner
Lois Beckett    July 20, 2011
Instapaper, Read It Later, Byliner: Platform founders on the pageview economics of time-shifted reading
A generation of tools make articles more readable by stripping away ads — but is it at the expense of publishers’ underlying economics?
Megan Garber    June 28, 2011
Knight News Challenge winner Spending Stories wants to bring context to fiscal information
Lois Beckett    June 3, 2011
The news/analysis divorce: Who gets custody of the cash?
Megan Garber    April 18, 2011
“People remember stories”: Meet Anil Kandangath, the winner of Google’s Data Viz Challenge
Lois Beckett    March 1, 2011
A hive of long-form journalists: Gerry Marzorati and Mark Danner on a new model for long form
Justin Ellis    February 24, 2011
Metro after midnight: How The Washington Post tapped night owls to make a transportation story social
Andrea Pitzer    January 10, 2011
The year ahead in narrative: Little piggies, extraterrestrial life, and how we’ll tell each other stories in 2011
Joshua Benton    October 12, 2010
Kindle Singles: A new potential home for in-depth news?
Megan Garber    September 30, 2010
Meta! Here’s how Storify looks telling the story of Storify
Joshua Benton    September 29, 2010
Margaret Atwood on Twitter-as-performance, and why you should keep your Kindle in a lead-lined box
Megan Garber    September 14, 2010
Twitter queen Susan Orlean on the mini-medium, the interactive narrative, and the writing persona
V. Michael Bove, Jr.    June 18, 2010
MIT Media Lab research scientist on the future of storytelling, from augmented reality to cross-platforms
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