May 23rd, 2013
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May 22nd, 2013
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And I am not advising younger women (or any woman) to tough it out. You can lash back, which I have done too often and which has rarely served me well. You can quit and look for other jobs, which is sometimes a very good idea. But the prejudice will follow you. What will save you is tacking into the love of the work, into the desire that brought you there in the first place. This creates a suspension of time, opens a spacious room of your own in which you can walk around and consider your response. Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a certain dignity, an angry dignity.
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May 22nd, 2013
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May 16th, 2013
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After Apple booted Google Maps from iOS last year, Daniel Graf led the development of a beautiful, refreshed mapping experience that shot to number one in the iTunes store and kicked Apple’s ass on its own turf. Here’s how Graf made it happen—in his own words:

We have a very successful Android version of Google Maps, so the easiest thing to do was to say, this is super-successful, users love it, so why don’t we just port it over to iOS? But I wanted to challenge the team. While the Android version is a great product, you can also tell it’s been around for a while. You have to access everything via menus—it’s not really best-use-case driven anymore. I said, let’s take a step back—what if we could start from scratch and forget anything we’ve ever done? We have the foundation—the Google data, the mapping data, the local business data, the imagery, the navigation algorithms—it’s a dream to start with.”

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May 16th, 2013
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Nearly 100 people joined us last Saturday for ONA dCamp at the Washington Post, which focused on using human-centered design to improve workflows and projects.  

We’ve pulled together a ton of photos, gifs and Vines from ONA dCamp to show you what design thinking means and how folks applied it to the problems they wanted to solve in their newsrooms. 

May 16th, 2013
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The New Yorker has introduced Strongbox, a tool for users to submit documents and correspondence without fear of being traced. Amy Davidson notes in her description of the tool that readers and sources have sent materials to the New Yorker for decades, but now, more than ever, it’s easier to trace where they came from. She writes, “[A]s it’s set up, even we won’t be able to figure out where files sent to us come from. If anyone asks us, we won’t be able to tell them.”

The tool was created by Aaron Swartz and Kevin Poulsen. The image above, created by the New Yorker, demonstrates how it works. 

Read more: Introducing Strongbox, a Tool for Anonymous Document-Sharing : The New Yorker

May 15th, 2013
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At Bloomberg, reporters could sit at their desks and use a keyboard function to see the last time an official of the Federal Reserve logged on. And the Justice Department obtained the records of The Associated Press from phone companies with no advance notice, giving it no chance to challenge the action. The absence of friction has led to a culture of transgression. Clearly, if it can be known, it will be known.
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May 15th, 2013
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In mid-April, we went live with a half dozen articles which we call “stubs.” The idea here is to plant a flag in a story right away with a short post—a “stub”—and then build the article as the story develops over time, rather than just cranking out short, discrete posts every time something new breaks. One of our writers refers to this aptly as a “slow live blog.

This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code community

The results of Fast Company’s experiment with “stubs” — which allowed them to gradually create long-form journalism — pleasantly surprised the team when it brought a lot of traffic. Learn more about their strategy and check out snapshots of their site analytics from Chris Dannen.

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