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Phillip Smith

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Covers:  data journalism, news and innovation, journalism, technology, hacking, data visualization, publishing and innovation
My passion is helping: 💰 1. Newsrooms make more money; 📈 2. News startups grow their audience; 🔥 3. Journalists succeed as entrepreneurs. Let's talk 📩
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Jim Jennings: Canadians should be "scared shitless"

Jim Jennings: Canadians should be "scared shitless"

phillipadsmith.com — Whether you believe it's one of the most exciting times to work in journalism, or one of the scariest times, one thing is clear: the conceptual divide between new media and traditional media continues to grow wider.
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Responsive vs. Adaptive Design: Mobile Strategies of Top News Sites

Responsive vs. Adaptive Design: Mobile Strategies of Top News Sites

PBS Idealab — Responsive vs. Adaptive Design: Mobile Strategies of Top News Sites After a short hiatus to focus on the Provincial election in British Columbia (shameless self-promo!), it's time to get back to work unpacking the technology stacks of the world's leading news organizations. Last time, the investigation focused on the speed of some of the world's top news sites, and proposed ways that sites can improve their performance. This time, we're going to continue to focus on performance, while looking at two different approaches to serving mobile traffic: responsive web design and adaptive web design.
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Ranking the Slowest-Loading News Sites and How They Can Speed Up

Ranking the Slowest-Loading News Sites and How They Can Speed Up

PBS Mediashift Idea Lab — I present your winner (or loser?) for slowest loading feature article, the Chicago Tribune, at 16.68 seconds, almost 6 megabytes of data, and with more than 300 requests for resources to display the page in question. In fact, the Tribune was the slowest out of the 15 sites tested three out of five times. How can this be? The Chicago Tribune, ranked as one of the most trafficked U.S.
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How Journalists Can Think Like Programmers

How Journalists Can Think Like Programmers

PBS Mediashift Idea Lab — I'm working on a fun little project at the moment that involves pulling data out of a Google Spreadsheet that is being curated by a team of journalists. The interesting thing about this project is that it so clearly illustrates the difference in thinking between people who regularly work with databases (herein called programmers) and those who use them less frequently (herein called journalists). In this particular case, the spreadsheet was initially developed by a more technically inclined editor, but -- nonetheless -- it exhibits some humorous and illustrative shortcomings, which we'll explore here.
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Investigating the Technology Underlying Top News Organizations

Investigating the Technology Underlying Top News Organizations

PBS Mediashift Idea Lab — What I’ve decided to try is an experiment: a structured investigation into the technology behind some of the Web operations that are generally considered to be “top news organizations,” something that I’ve been following casually for quite a while. The experiment is to see if I can bring some thoroughness to this line of investigation, and not simply cherry-pick the good technology stories that advance my own views.
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The Tyee - Idea #10: The Reinvention of Nearly Everything

The Tyee - Idea #10: The Reinvention of Nearly Everything

The Tyee — How open ideas, venture collectivism and the hacker ethic are changing the world.
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Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them

Comments Are Dead. We Need You to Help Reinvent Them

PBS Mediashift Idea Lab — Let's face it - technically speaking, comments are broken. With few exceptions, they don't deliver on their potential to be a force for good.
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Idea Lab

Idea Lab

PBS — Ranking the Slowest-Loading News Sites and How They Can Speed Up I present your winner (or loser?) for slowest loading feature article, the Chicago Tribune, at 16.68 seconds, almost 6 megabytes of data, and with more than 300 requests for resources to display the page in question. In fact, the Tribune was the slowest out of the 15 sites tested three out of five times. How can this be? The Chicago Tribune, ranked as one of the most trafficked U.S. news sites, is also one of the slowest sites on the Internet (well, not quite, but in the context of these tests is really, honestly, objectively, "dog slow").
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The Tyee - Idea #8: The Web Revolution That Started in Your Pants

The Tyee - Idea #8: The Web Revolution That Started in Your Pants

The Tyee — It's not porn. It's called 'responsive design,' the new wave of web development. There is a web revolution underway. And it all started in your pants. Specifically, in your pants' pocket. If you're anything like the 80 per cent of Canadians who use the Internet, you own at least one mobile device: a so-called "smart phone," a tablet computer, an e-reader, an Internet-connected video game console or a netbook. If you do, you're part of a growing technology evolution that's impacting the future of the web. Where the makers of the web once asked, "Should we concern ourselves with the small number of people that visit our sites on mobile devices?"
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