December 2011
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FT: Old media champions turn on and tune in
One of the best stories to date on how WaPo Labs’ Social Reader is turning heads and making folks realize how innovative the Washington Post can be. The Washington Post Company was among the most experimental of the old media companies on Facebook this year, launching its Social Reader application. A news aggregator that features Washington Post content, as well as stories from other...
Dec 31st
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My favorite gift so far.
Dec 25th
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Social Media Today on Washington Post Social...
Here’s a link to a fun interview I did last week with Robin Carey, founder of Social Media Today.
Dec 18th
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November 2011
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My review of the Kindle Fire →
My review of the Kindle Fire in the Washington Post’s Innovations blog.
Nov 17th
October 2011
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August 2011
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betashop: The Fab.com Social Design Commerce... →
From Washington Post Company investment Fab.com… betashop: Here at Fab.com we’re compiling some awesome data on the design industry and consumers’ tastes and interests with regards to design. Our goal over time is to publish a regular “Fab.com Social Design Commerce Index” with data on what’s trending. Here’s a manual version as a first step towards…
Aug 12th
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July 2011
4 posts
Life after iPad...
My review of the Asus Transformer made the cut and is now a blog post on Washington Post. And has the accompanying video:
Jul 13th
Introducing FP for iPad | FP Passport →
The app looks great! Congrats to the Foreign Policy team!
Jul 9th
One of these brands is doing its own thing...
The Trove Windows Phone 7 app is now out, and it was really nice to see it get coverage on WP Central alongside some brands that have a little bit more history than our 2+ month old personalized news initiative. Thanks again to Microsoft and PushButton who’ve been great partners for us to work with. More news soon on this front…
Jul 2nd
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June 2011
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SocialCode, Facebook and the GOP horserace →
Great to see SocialCode utilizing their Facebook platform in a completely new and innovative manner in politics!
Jun 15th
Shel Kaphan interview on Geekwire
Really happy to see Shel get some (virtual) ink. He did amazing things in the early days of Amazon, and I don’t think I’d be where I am today if he didn’t help me as much as he did during my first year at Amazon. http://www.geekwire.com/2011/meet-shel-kaphan-amazoncom-employee-1
Jun 15th
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May 2011
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http://www.benzinga.com/generallifemisc/movers-shak... →
Fun audio interview and write up of Trove by Benzinga. Thanks for the coverage!
May 22nd
Pardon the self-promotion, but since I know Modern DC Business, a fledgling local business magazine, isn’t a common read (yet), I figured I’d link my little profile interview in this quarter’s issue. In truth, I didn’t know what to make of the publication, but then I saw Tim O’Shaughnessy’s profile there, and I knew it must be for real. Thanks to Hulya Aksu...
May 22nd
Trove: Troving Reporter: Technically Speaking →
trove: The most-viewed channel over the past 24 hours is the iPhone channel, and that got this reporter to thinking: What are Trove’s most popular technology channels? Here’s the answer to that question. If you’re an inspector of gadgets, here are a few channels you might want to add: » Apple »
May 14th
Trove: Troving Reporter: Hardball and Fastballs →
trove: Maybe it’s all the talk of President Obama’s poll bump since the death of Osama bin Laden, or maybe it’s the flurry of excitement (kinda) over tonight’s Republican presidential debate, but politics appears to be on the minds of Trove visitors today. Our U.S. Politics channel is today’s…
May 7th
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Stiff Jab.: Stiff Jab Goes Mainstream →
Congrats to Gautham on his piece hitting The Atlantic! stiffjab: Today is an exciting day for us, and not just because we’re less than a week from Pacquiao v. Mosely. Head over to The Atlantic to get our editor’s list of “5 Reasons Boxing May Go Mainstream Again (And 5 Reasons It Won’t)”: Despite the excitement over this weekend’s upcoming fight, many…
May 5th
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Trove: Now on Trove: Channel Recommendations →
trove: We’ve heard some great feedback about Trove’s Channel Finder: the set of boxes at the top of the page, programmed by our editors, that helps to highlight new and (hopefully) intriguing channels on the site. Now, we’ve added another layer to help you, the user, discover channels to add to your…
May 4th
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April 2011
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Milo Milovanovich and I wrote the following piece in Slate on the Amazon Cloud outage. The team did a great job insulating itself for the most part from the outage. 
Apr 29th
First Impressions of Trove, WaPo’s News... →
Great thoughtful review of Trove on Media Bistro. Critique is totally fair and exactly pointing the in the direction we’re going.
Apr 23rd
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“Washington Post Co. launched its venture into social media on Wednesday with...”
–  The L.A. Times. We’re not sure about “most amazing,” but mom always told us not to turn down a compliment. (via trove)
Apr 22nd
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http://trove.tumblr.com/post/4665485108 →
I swear I had nothing to do with the robot reference, but I am quite proud of the Trove editorial team! trove: popculturebrain: Lady Gaga OFFICIAL “Born This Way” ALBUM cover | ONTD Also born this way? Cy-Kill of the Gobots. They’re both mighty vehicles.  » Get the latest on the Haus of Gaga at Trove’s Lady Gaga channel.
Apr 17th
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At Washington Post and Register Citizen,... →
Excellent detailed write up on a great innovation done by the Post. As we move faster and faster in this digital age, copy editing is one of those things that inevitably gets slackened, and it is great to see us innovating our way to improve this rather than just accepting our fate.
Apr 10th
Metrics and the newsroom →
Great write up by Ken Doctor of the amazing changes led by Raju Narisetti within the Washington Post newsroom as we move to a more metrics driven culture.
Apr 10th
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Still working in climbing steps at Wheaton Mall playtown.
Apr 9th
The Hackers Who Keep the Washington Post Running -... →
Great story on some of the super-talented folks at Washington Post working on new forms of story telling.
Apr 7th
February 2011
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The Washington Post’s Trove targets news... →
Poynter has a great detailed story on Trove.
Feb 21st
With the story in the Wall Street Journal, the Trove project is now in the open! The first public facing project of the corporate WaPo Labs team is worthy of real attention. For now, we’re handing out private beta invites, and are a few weeks from lifting that into a public beta. But the site looks good as is, feedback has been tremendous, and I definitely am addicted to it which is a...
Feb 13th
January 2011
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Haiti - 1 year later in Pictures
Foreign Policy continues its great tradition of having powerful photo essays with one on Haiti One Year Later. This also reminds me, if you haven’t downloaded the excellent Foreign Policy iPhone photo app , FP Wide Angle, you should. It sends notifications once a new essay is up (which is about once a week or two).
Jan 12th
Our little Facebook venture, SocialCode, got its first real plug in the Wall Street Journal this week.  You can become a fan of SocialCode and keep up with our exciting new initiative!
Jan 5th
December 2010
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iPad vs Galaxy Tab: the ultimate face-off
I got Vibha a Samsung Galaxy Tab for a holiday gift this year. She’s been wanting a new tablet but wasn’t keen adding another iPad to the household. So our home now has an iPad and a Galaxy Tab which means every person in our house is now qualified to expertly comment on the pros and cons of both devices. However, Vibha is pretty biased in preferring non-Apple products, so despite her...
Dec 31st
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November 2010
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What's your legacy?
I got an email yesteday from an old colleague at Amazon. He had forwarded an email that announced the “worldwide” deprecation of a set of software that I had led the delivery of in 2002 and rolled out over 2 years to replace software built in 1996.  At the time we developed the software, we were the smart guys. Using cutting/bleeding edge open source tools, thinking we were doing a...
Nov 25th
September 2010
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August 2010
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Aug 22nd
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July 2010
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Last 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...
Jul 11th
June 2010
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May 2010
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May 23rd
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Manoj sez: Falling asleep in my swing rocks.
May 15th
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...
Apr 30th
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...
Apr 3rd
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…
Apr 3rd
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March 2010
11 posts
Peeps vs Chick-fil-a cows: http://bit.ly/dp7fcF
Mar 30th
Talk about buried lede. Story contains nugget that Yelp accused of offering to reorder reviews if restaurant buys ads: http://bit.ly/bnssKP
Mar 30th
RT @SoonerSportscom: Sam Bradford’s workout leaves observers “speechless”: http://blogs.nfl.com/category/pro-days/
Mar 29th
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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
Mar 29th
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
Mar 28th
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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...
Mar 28th
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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.
Mar 28th
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