September: Newspapers that use Twitter

@import url("http://graphicdesignr.net/docs/table.css"); Forget the chit-chat, let’s get right to it: Greatest increase in followers The Charleston Gazette @gazette_opinion 875 percent Chicago Sun-Times @suntimes 588.06 percent Seattle Post-Intelligencer @bigblog 351.85 percent Chicago Sun-Times @cst_couch 320 percent St. Louis Post-Dispatch @gostl 300 percent Atlanta Journal-Constitution @bestofthebiga 257.14 percent New York Times @vindugoel 193.33 percent Chicago Sun-Times @cst_marin 190 percent Washington Post @thefix 183.81 percent USA Today @usatodaylife 173.68 percent 10 accounts with the most followers New York Times @nytimes 8,251 followers USA Today @popcandy 2,665 followers Wall Street Journal @wsj 2,544 followers Washington Post @thefix 1,771 followers Austin American-Statesman @statesman 1,559 followers New York Times @nytimesbusiness 1,361 [...]

Inspirational designer shares new projects

Back in July, I talked to designer/artist-extraordinaire Amy Martin. She had been laid off from The Los Angeles Times and was offering to help her job-seeking co-workers redesign their résumés. That was incredibly inspiring. Amy sent an update on Saturday: Two exciting things happened this week: 1) the poster I designed for Manifest Hope is now hanging in [...]

Obama vs. McCain: What they said at the 2nd debate

Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain were at it again — their second debate was at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn. CNN has the transcript of the debate; I took who said what and, using Wordle, created word clouds. The clouds represent the 150 most frequently used words; the larger the words, the more [...]

Tonight we’re playing President Bingo!

I’m behind on posts. I will soon have September’s numbers for newspapers that use Twitters — data collected, mostly crunched, just needs some finishing touches. I’m also a little behind on updating layoffs and buyouts. (My bid to get newspapers to stop laying off people is not working.) But in the meantime, just in time [...]

Biden vs. Palin: What they said at the debate

Democratic Sen. Joe Biden and Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin debated at Washington University on Thursday night. CNN has the transcript of the debate. From the transcript, I separated what Biden said vs. what Palin said and, using Wordle, created word clouds. The clouds represent the 150 most frequently used words; the larger the word, [...]