Congrats to Jim, Ben, Tiff, Craig, Mike, and any other of my awesome friends at MSNBC who may have been involved in this site, which aggregates election stories, video, and data from all over the place into one beautifully-designed “dashboard.” Good stuff.
I’m obviously biased because I’m tight with several of the people there, but in my opinion, MSNBC.com has definitely proven to be the most innovative national news site over the past year or so. Visit site »
I’m a bit behind on this one, having been out of town and largely offline for a couple of weeks, but Mike and his awesome crew at Newsvine (now part of MSNBC) are looking for a PHP/JS/CSS sort of developer to join their team. I’ve known Mike for years and have watched Newsvine grow into something really special, so you know this is a killer position. I’ve met most of the members on the team and am buddies with some of them — they’re really, really good at what they do, and super-nice people. And, the Newsvine office is literally a stone’s thrown from my apartment (you can actually see my building right behind the ‘Vine building in the photo Mike includes), so I can say without question that it’s a great building in a great location right in the middle of everything that’s going on in Seattle. If you’re a PHP/JS guru, you’d be crazy not to be interested in this gig. Visit site »
Big congrats to my old cronies at the Lawrence Journal-World (Best News Web Site with fewer than 1 million unique monthly visitors), as well as my friends at MSNBC.com (Best Community Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors), and The New York Times (Best News Web Site with over 1 million unique monthly visitors and others). Visit site »
Since I’ve been in Seattle, I’ve gotten pretty familiar with several members of the MSNBC.com team, and I can say with a great of confidence that these guys are super-smart and are definitely on the cutting edge of the online journalism world. This is definitely a great position for some lucky candidate out there. Visit site »
MSNBC.com’s new video player is pretty damn awesome. Visit site »
Jim Ray (a helluva guy, for the record), explains why the new MSNBC.com pages don’t have a DOCTYPE leading off their source. What you’ll learn from reading it is that the people currently at MSNBC.com care deeply about standards and doing things the right way, but are handcuffed by some legacy code and tools. They’re working on it, and they’ll get their eventually.
As you know if you read this site regularly, one of my biggest pet peeves is people getting attacked for less-than-perfect HTML when its obvious they’re trying. One look at MSNBC.com’s source will show a marked improvement from the past, and a clear attempt at doing the best they possibly can. The fact that anyone would direct their standardista wrath and folks who are trying their best when there are still people not trying at all really irritates me. Visit site »
Craig Salia is moving to Seattle and joining our friends at MSNBC.com. It’s a great company, great position, and great team — and a great move for Craig. Congrats! See you in Seattle! :) Visit site »
Ashley Wells, creative director at MSNBC.com and all around good guy, posting an interesting look at the progression of designs his team went through as they inched closer and closer to the finished product, which everyone has probably seen by now. It’s an interesting insight that we usually don’t get for products like MSNBC.com — check it out. Visit site »
The new MSNBC.com design is really brilliant. More whitespace, great typography, and easy to find what you’re looking for. I love how the team in Redmond has managed to keep MSNBC’s signature use of a rainbow of colors (A Fuller Spectrum of News, they say) without making it cheesy (it’s not easy to use this many colors well). I got a sneak peek of this new direction several months ago and have been excited to see it go live ever since.
Congrats to Ashley, Rex, Jim, Ben, Tiff, and all my other friends on the East side. Visit site »
Having lived in Seattle just long enough to know a handful of the guys from both of these great media companies, I can truly say: this is a perfect match. Congrats to Rex, Mike, Ashley, Calvin, and everyone else involved. I’m so anxious to see where this goes! More coverage:
Huge win for Seattle, this. Visit site »
A really nice interactive infographic by my friends over at MSNBC.com (why haven’t I seen you guys yet since I moved here?!). Visit site »
My design on national TV. One for the ego files (Quicktime video). :) Visit site »