The human side of work often gets lost in the race to be best, first and profitable.
A simple but compelling ad by Fairly Painless Advertising tells potential employees why design firm Herman Miller might be the right place for them to work.
Can the news outlet you work for say this?
Categories: One For Fun, video
Tagged: advertising, Communication design, Graphic design, Herman Miller Inc., Marketing
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- August 18, 2009 – 12:06 pm
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- By Chrys
The latest Ricochet news contest gives you the chance to show off enterprise reporting on a tight budget.
Show a story borne of the pursuit of an original idea and crafted for the Web and you’ll be entered in this round’s random drawing. The prize? We’ll donate $40 to the community-funded reporting project Spot.Us in your [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: contest, enterprise, reporting
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- December 17, 2008 – 10:43 pm
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- By Chrys
Vlad Studio has created a free typography map wallpaper that also works as a clock.
Whether you need to know the time, or need to know where Morocco is, this handy, free download can help you out. Enjoy.
Categories: Data + Graphics, One For Fun
Tagged: clock, Maps, Vlad Studio, wallpaper
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- December 17, 2008 – 8:46 am
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- By Chrys
By most reported accounts, Barack Obama won Wednesday’s faceoff by not losing to John McCain.
The unfortunate thing about these televised events it that they sounded a lot like stump speeches and talking points, rather than any real discussion of plans and intentions.
Impressions are all the voting public is left with, so I thought I’d publish [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: election, politics
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- October 16, 2008 – 1:19 am
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- By Chrys
NBC may have a death grip on the U.S. broadcast of the Summer Olympics, but that hasn’t stopped other outlets from coming up with different ways to cover the Beijing Games online. Here are a few medal-contending approaches you may have missed.
“Soaring Over the Bar” from the New York Times
American gymnast Justin Spring explains the [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, General Journalism, One For Fun, video
Tagged: blogs, graphics, interactives, olympics, video
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- August 15, 2008 – 6:00 pm
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- By Chrys
Pulitzer prize-winner Gene Weingarten wrote a funny ode to copy editors in his Sunday column for the Washington Post.
From start to finish, it’s an entertaining frolic that defends the craft. Editors and management should read it and think twice about slashing entire copy desks when layoff time comes around.
Weingarten won acclaim for his 2007 profile [...]
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: editing, fun, humor
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- June 27, 2008 – 6:06 pm
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- By Chrys
While election coverage may be on hiatus, speculation on who will be our next president is about to run wild.
Sean Connelley of the Los Angeles Times created an interactive, embeddable map that lets you test different electoral vote scenarios.
Think Wisconsin will go to McCain? Click and the state turns red. Believe the die-hard Democrats and [...]
Categories: Data + Graphics, Games, One For Fun
Tagged: election, fun, Games, politics
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- June 7, 2008 – 9:09 am
- Author:
- By Chrys
Is This What Cable News Has Been Reduced To? 0
A friend who loves news but isn’t in the news business forwarded this to me. It’s a pretty dead-on, yet sad commentary on the state of cable news.
Categories: General Journalism, One For Fun
Tagged: broadcast, cable, commentary, fun, humor