August 2010
2 posts
July 2010
1 post
WatchLast week I was on a panel at the Council on Foreign Relations. It was probably the most fun I’ve had on a panel to date. The other panelists were terrific, Vivian Schiller (CEO of NPR.org) and Bill Nichols (Managing Editor of Politico), and the crowd asked great questions.
The highlight of the night however was at the pre-panel reception where someone asked if I had just graduated from...
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
2 posts
WatchManoj sez:
Falling asleep in my swing rocks.
April 2010
3 posts
Newsweek's 100 Places to Visit
Newsweek is running something launched as part of Earth Day that everyone should check out. It is called 100 Places to Visit Before They Disappear and the pictures are stunning both in the visual response they elicit, as well as the emotional response to the fact that they are all under seige. You can see the special online here:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/236064
The Labs team used the Peeps...
Washington Post Peeps
A lot of what the Labs team I’ve hired up since joining the Post Co has worked on has been behind the scenes. There are a few exceptions like Reach for the Wall and All Met Sports’s HS Basketball wiki, but by and large our contributions have not been scene stealing, which is fine. But every now and then you have to do something fun, and producing the Peeps iPhone app definitely...
Equality Myth: NPR Asks Self: "Where Are All the... →
newsweek:
Big-ups to NPR for this piece today, in which the org’s ombudsman (who is actually an ombudswoman) asks, Where Are All the Women Sources? NPR compiled a list of regular commentators over the past 15 months, who are not NPR employees but paid to appear on air, and found that only 26…
Interesting. Though Starlee Kine is so good her voice should count twice…
March 2010
11 posts
Peeps vs Chick-fil-a cows: http://bit.ly/dp7fcF
Talk about buried lede. Story contains nugget that Yelp accused of offering to reorder reviews if restaurant buys ads: http://bit.ly/bnssKP
RT @SoonerSportscom: Sam Bradford’s workout leaves observers “speechless”: http://blogs.nfl.com/category/pro-days/
Acy technical ended up being huge, big difference being 3 or 5 down in those final seconds. What a season for Baylor, amazing job by Drew
Next years UK team will look nothing like this year, but I still prefer 1 & done to someone like Wall skipping college: http://bit.ly/cqbRce
Why I Tumbl?
I just finished migrating my Blogger blog over. I am excited, Tumblr should feel less onerous to update, I can do it from my phone, I can do it with a photo. I use Twitter and Facebook a lot, but both have their limitations when I want to persist something for future updates, so that’s the big reason I am Tumbling. In particular, I am excited about some of the innovation occurring in...
Birth of Manoj
[this post originally ran on December 24th, 2009]
On December 14th, 2009 we welcomed our son Manoj to the world. We’ve set up a Tumblr page for Manoj for those interested.
Political Infrastructure
[This post originally ran on December 24th 2009]
I’ve been meaning to write a post ever since the Virginia and NJ races concluded. As feared, momentum is potentially swinging to the opposition. I wrote an op-ed that published in the Post in July on the importance of infrastructure behind the scenes. I am still hoping to see more process stories on the investments the Republicans are...
My Camaro saga comes to an end
[This post originally ran on September 19th, 2009 on my previous blog]
As many of my friends know, I’ve had a big love for the new Camaro. Rumors that this was solely due to my love of Transformers were greatly exaggerated. If anything, the Michael Bay POS almost turned me off completely. However, I still liked the car, and Vibha and I had been talking about buying American next, so I...
Using Digit Distribution to Signal Fraud
[This post originally ran on June 20, 2009 on my previous blog]
Today’s Washington Post Op-Ed page has a great op-ed from two statisticians regarding the controversial Iran elections. Their analysis is similar to something the IRS uses to detect tax filing fraud called Benford’s Rule. In it they write the punchline:
The probability that a fair election would produce both too few...
RIP Wayman
[This post was originally posted on May 16, 2009 on my previous blog]
Every kid who becomes a sports fan has a first crush. An athlete that opens up the world of sports and competition in a way that seems like fantasy. For me, that athlete was Wayman Tisdale. A prodigious recruiting coup for Billy Tubbs, who arrived in Norman the same time my family moved there in 1982. In his first game, a...
December 2009
1 post
Manoj's Kodak album →