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Re: Is Apple Quietly Assembling an SMB Trojan Horse?

Morisy — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 12:43:01 -0000

Really interesting idea, but how much data does Apple actually have in this equation? My understanding was they kept pretty minimal data from Apple Pay (one of its selling points is less tracking), and Square is the one collecting and keeping the data with their product ... so still remains a pretty big blackhole for Apple, no?

Re: Ghost 0.4.2 Maintenance Release

Morisy — Tue, 01 Apr 2014 00:54:16 -0000

Wasn't expecting touch editing anytime soon based on support messages, but really glad it's here. Great to see such rapid development. Great work and kudos to the Ghost team. The software is simply delightful to use.

Re: FOIA Machine: What comes after Kickstarter success

Morisy — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 16:03:43 -0000

Those interested might also want to check out MuckRock, which has been operating for a few years and helps file and track requests in all 50 states as well as hundreds of cities and towns:

http://www.muckrock.com/

We even have the overdue list you suggest!

An example agency page:

https://www.muckrock.com/ag...

An example jurisdiction page:

https://www.muckrock.com/pl...

Re: If you love storytelling and public records, MuckRock has the podcast for you

Morisy — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 14:35:45 -0000

I'll also humbly note that we're looking for underwriters, if anyone is interested! Michael@MuckRock.com

Re: Truth about Beyonce's inauguration performance can't be published until 2122

Morisy — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:35:15 -0000

Thanks for the thoughts. Yes, that's our policy: Release the full request trail, or keep it private.

I'm happy to provide direct links to all the public domain files, but our lawyers have informed us that fair use would *not* cover releasing the full tracks for compositions not in the public domain. Didn't try to suggest a conspiracy or ill intent, just an odd quirk of copyright law: The government will give you music tracks, but if you share them, you open yourself up to legal repercussions.

Re: The newsonomics of signature content

Morisy — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:14:38 -0000

Great post, but I'd love to hear what's changed between now and when the Times tried this strategy in 2005 with Times Select: Are the media organizations getting better about packaging premium content, have consumer habits changed, has purchasing technology gotten easier, or is something else at play?

I'd tend to think it's a mixture of both, but just investing in signature content without understanding what can make it actually sell seems like repeating the mistakes of yesteryear, while these early efforts are too nascent to provide a real road map.

Re: Scripting News: OnSwipe

Morisy — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:03:05 -0000

Rebooting the News' page is OnSwiped, now that you bring it up. It's not too bad except for an unnecessary "cover". Speaking of which, is the show coming back?

Re: Using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to find an image for a presentation

Morisy — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:21:38 -0000

Which picture did you use? I like the use case, but it seems like non were suitable for a presentation, and only one matched your description. Was the $1.65 really worth it if it didn't help you out?

Thanks for sharing, it's really helpful to see others' experiences.

Re: SXSW: 5 Great Sites for Progressive Media Types

Morisy — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:17:50 -0000

@DrFood They're very similar, except Readability doesn't currently have a web app, has a monthly subscription cost ($5, I believe), and gives 70% of the proceeds to the authors whose work you save to read later. They're both based on the same basic tech, though.

Thanks for spotlight MuckRock, Laura, and nice pic with the penguin!

Re: Social Reporting Tool Storify Raises $2 Million

Morisy — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 15:55:34 -0000

Congrats to the Storify team. Bert's an incredibly passionate individual in this space, and it's great to see his team will have the opportunity to take this idea to the next level.

Re: Journalism Warning Stickers Bookmarklet – Help?

Morisy — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 15:33:03 -0000

I assume you've seen how these guys do it? http://baconize.com/

Like Michael said, it just forwards them to the other page, hosted on your server. Love the idea.

Re: Scripting News: Why I like comments

Morisy — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:35:31 -0000

I kind of liked the proposal. I'd been considering the opposite on a new news site I'm running: After 24 hours, comments start to fade, meaning the area below the content is more like slow-motion chat room than ongoing forum.

I don't think it's really a good idea, but maybe a combination of what you and some other people suggested might work: For 24 hours, comments can be made, upvoted, downvoted, edited, etc. After 24 hours, the best is frozen, the rest discarded.

In the end, we decided to just scrap comments altogether and make really nice trackbacks: If you have something worth saying, fire up your own site or Twitter or Posterous and say it there. If we like it, it'll get automagical link love. If it stinks, that poo's on your own site and your own reputation, and we're scrapping it off ours.

Freedom of speech, just not on my dime.

Re: Now You Can Follow Twitter Users Without an Account

Morisy — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:44:26 -0000

The flickr link is broken.

Re: Scripting News: My Scripting2 to-do

Morisy — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:50:17 -0000

Re: #15. I always thought "Tweet This" buttons were dumb: If someone wants to Tweet, e-mail, Tumblr, or whatever my content, that delights me but a) They probably want to do it how they do it and b) I don't need to advertise a service that may or may not have my best interest in mind as a blogger and that may or may not be passe in a few years.

Then we put in a simple "Tweet This" link on the blog network I run, and usage jumped up some huge percentage: People actually liked it. While I'd hate for something like that to be hardcoded for all the reasons you outlined, it'd be nice and relatively simple to make it easy to add in and remove bits from the template files, particularly if you already want to make them user editable with a click (#4).

Overall, seems like a great plan!

Re: Please fix WordPress for podcast feeds. (Scripting News)

Morisy — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 09:09:59 -0000

And here I thought I was just subscribed to the wrong RSS feed the past few weeks. Glad to know I'm not alone.

Re: Random NY notes. (Scripting News)

Morisy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 14:24:28 -0000

Almost all of Google's new features produce some sort of public RSS feed, but they've done an incredibly good job of hiding them this rollout (accidentally, I believe/hope). I imagine that'll be fixed, but yes, you should be able to use your own RSS aggregator if you poke around.

Google is the home of the Data Liberation Front (http://www.dataliberation.o... after all.

Re: danieltenner.com — The questionable value of the real-time web

Morisy — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:14:31 -0000

Excellent post!

It really captured a lot of the problems with the early real time feed frenzy. And a lot of the problems you point out were *immediately* obvious when services like Twitter, FriendFeed and Facebook Feed launched, but the signal v. noise wasn't bad ... yet. Now the problems are becoming hard to ignore as they do cost us attention, time and productivity.

I've found myself checking Twitter, RSS, etc. more and more through Feedly rather than real-time clients because it sorts, ranks, categorizes, and makes intelligible the real-time sea of information, and I imagine Google is hard at work on real time Page Rank to ensure that more critical real time data peaks up to the top.

But does "Real Time" matter? I think it can beyond the entertainment factor you mention. It matters in buying and selling, for example: Recently when apartment hunting, for example, I was reminded that within a matter of hours, one place you considered a steal was actually $300 more/month than an equally great place that just came on the market.

Or the age old question, "What should I do tonight?", is influenced by dozens of real-time data inputs:
* Where are my friends?
* What's my budget?
* What's the weather like?
* Is the line long at Jake Ivory's?

Right now, not much of this is available in a real time feed, but more and more is coming, and the ability to mash that data up and present it in real time can improve decision making. But in the end, it's all about getting the relevant real time data *when* you need it, not necessarily as it happens.

Re: What's the root list of Twitter? (Scripting News)

Morisy — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:19:51 -0000

The root disk of your PC is C:\. The root disk on my PC is C:\, but it's a different C:\ than yours.

Why can't the "Twitter root list" just be the individual user's list? Though obryan's idea doesn't sound like a bad idea for creating an un-logged in default.

Re: An open reboot on Saturday (Scripting News)

Morisy — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 16:36:23 -0000

Just bummed it's on the gorgeous west coast, and not here in beautiful, drizzly Cambridge. On second thought ... Hope it goes well for all the lucky attendees.

Re: How to keep visual design consistent while A/B testing like crazy

Morisy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:17:42 -0000

Fascinating post. The modular approach often leaves something left to be desired, particularly visually, but the A/B testing gains probably more than likely make up for it in an e-commerce situation like Amazon.

Re: A hard day here at The Star-Ledger

Morisy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:23:30 -0000

I second Chris's sentiments. My best wishes to everyone at Star-Ledger; Watching your multimedia and web efforts have been inspiring to me and a lot of other young journalists.

Re: Newspapers Be Warned

Morisy — Fri, 23 May 2008 22:54:49 -0000

Love the post Chris, though I'm a bit late to commenting on it :)

I don't know how many major papers are doing this, but it's something several college papers are doing, and something Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Hassell has been heading up in a big way at the New Jersey Star-Ledger (http://www.theexplodingnews....

Even the trade pub I work at has tentatively been dipping our toes into Facebook!