jimray + vanity   56

The Hacker Journalists
I stood onstage with Mediashift's Mark Glaser a couple weeks ago and talked about what I do at my day job. This is a great rundown of what we talked about.
work  vanity  tumbl  media 
august 2009 by jimray
Mike D drinks the rainbow Kool-Aid!
Man, ever since Newsvine got bought, that guy has been in Microsoft's pocket! (A joke, of course).
design  msnbc  vanity  work  redesign07 
november 2007 by jimray
Lost Remote on the msnbc.com relaunch
Come for the love, stay for the blistering comments
vanity  work  msnbc  redesign07 
november 2007 by jimray
Now more open to everyone
It's with no small amount of pride that I got to write the mea culpa inviting Firefox, Safari and, yes, even Opera users back to msnbc.com
webdev  design  work  msnbc  tumbl  vanity  redesign07 
november 2007 by jimray
Rising from Ruin wins "Natural Disaster Multimedia Package" BOP
"These entries would make great photo gallery entries." Damn photographers.
vanity  awards  photography  msnbc  work 
march 2007 by jimray
Super fans: Readers' top fan photos
Shiny UGC thing, I built the frontend (still a few bugs, nothing critical)
ugc  work  vanity  media 
january 2007 by jimray
2006 Online Journalism Award winners
MSNBC.com takes home General Excellence in Online Journalism and Outstanding Use of Multiple Media (for the Rising from Ruin package). Rock.
vanity  awards  work  msnbc  media 
october 2006 by jimray
MSNBC Photoblog launches
I'm only tagging this so Evann wil stop bugging me about it!
vanity  work  msnbc  photography 
september 2006 by jimray
Rising from ruin virtual tour
The 360 videos are now working! I had almost nothing to do with the final version of this, congrats to all my colleagues who worked really long hours getting this out for the 1 year anniversary.
hurricanekatrina  work  vanity  maps 
august 2006 by jimray
Online Journalism Awards: 2006 Online Journalism Awards - Finalists
General Excellence in Online Journalism (Large), Outstanding Use of Multiple Media (Large). Also, go UNC!
vanity  awards  media  work  unc 
august 2006 by jimray
Jim Ray's Bookmarks on Ma.gnolia
I'm linkblogging work-specific stuff over here. We'll see how it goes.
work  vanity  socialsoftware 
july 2006 by jimray
Independent Study: The Coup - MSNBC.com
Every time I write one these, I swear it's gonna be my last
vanity  music  work  hiphop 
may 2006 by jimray
Antonin Scalia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Holy shit, I have the same birthday as Antonin Scalia. That sort of freaks me out.
vanity  politics  scotus 
april 2006 by jimray
2006 EPpy Awards
Rising from Ruin nominated for "Best Special Feature in an Internet Serv - News or Event, over 1 million unique monthly visitors"
vanity  awards  media  work 
april 2006 by jimray
UNC J-school wins best of "magazine" category from Horizon Interactive Awards
Students beat out a bunch of professionals in this category - I'm constantly proud that this is my alma mater
awards  vanity  multimediajournalism  media  unc 
april 2006 by jimray
Dictionary.com/Word of the Day Archive/crapulous
"Crapulous old reprobate" - how awesome is it that this is the word of the day on my birthday? Well, it's kinda awesome.
funny  vanity  language 
march 2006 by jimray
Chronicle didn't honor bet with DTH as they should've - Letters to the Editor
My baby bro (with some editing from me) sends in a letter to the DTH. They butchered the hell out of it, but he had a chance to set things straight on the website.
unc  media  family  vanity 
march 2006 by jimray
jimray.newsvine.com
Mike hooked me up with my Newsvine account
media  news  vanity 
december 2005 by jimray
MSNBC.com: Rising from ruin - HUGE in Germany
"And multimedia producers who look like Flash Gordon"
vanity  multimediajournalism  media 
november 2005 by jimray
MSNBC - Harry Potter
A cheatsheet for Friday. You know you're going to see it, don't try to deny it. Also, Duane Hoffman is the man.
harrypotter  fantasy  vanity 
november 2005 by jimray
Rising from ruin citizen diaries
We set up a blog for victims of Hurricane Katrina, I couldn't be more proud of the content we've gotten already
vanity  weblogs  hurricanekatrina 
november 2005 by jimray
Jim Ray, Wal-Mart apologist
You gotta read the comments, they're pretty awesome
walmart  vanity  hurricanekatrina 
november 2005 by jimray
A band that’s anything but broken
Probably my last indie study for a while
vanity  music 
october 2005 by jimray
Rising from ruin - MSNBC.com
Kevin Sites may be prettier than us, but we got better content, yo
vanity  hurricanekatrina  weblogs 
october 2005 by jimray
The Daily Nightly - MSNBC.com
One of our first "weblogs" to move to an actual blog platform. And this one finally works correctly on non-IE browsers, a personal mission of mine.
media  weblogs  vanity  television 
october 2005 by jimray
SNDies multimedia winners
Joe's far to classy to mention it, but I'm linking to his site because the official SND winners site BLOWS (it's designed by a UNC kid! For shame!) Also, nice work on that gold medal, Joe!
multimediajournalism  design  vanity 
october 2005 by jimray
Join the Mockracy
An interactive experiment in voting
vanity  multimediajournalism  voting 
october 2005 by jimray
Flash journalism: Professional practice today
Wow, Mindy McAdams managed to talk to just about every single person doing multimedia journalism for this article. I got to say "you're walking into the tar pits." Heh.
flash  multimediajournalism  media  vanity 
september 2005 by jimray
How do I keep my cat from shredding my furniture?
We're getting a new couch soon and I'll be goddamned if the cats destory THIS piece of furniture. I heart AskMeFi.
pets  home  vanity 
september 2005 by jimray
Browsing the Site, Not Watching the Show - New York Times
"Why is MSNBC.com doing so well if its parent perennially trails other TV news channels?" The answer is simple: all cable news sucks and there's simply not enough room for three 24-hour news channels amongst such a small, simple-minded audience.
cablenews  vanity  media 
september 2005 by jimray
MSNBC.com Katrina Blog
It's got a few issues we need to deal with, but this is MSNBC's first *real* blog
vanity  weblogs  hurricanekatrina  media 
september 2005 by jimray
Blondfire ambition
My latest indie study. I'm kinda disappointed with how this one turned out, but that's my own damn fault and deadlines are what they are. It's a great band, you should check them out.
vanity  music  indiestudy 
august 2005 by jimray
AOL News: Space Shuttle Launch
AOL's space shuttle video doesn't work on Firefox, doesn't work on a Mac and has a much less polished interface
vanity  multimediajournalism  aol  science 
july 2005 by jimray
MSNBC - Discovery's Liftoff
See the shuttle liftoff from just about any angle you want
vanity  multimediajournalism  space  science 
july 2005 by jimray
If we were picking the best albums
MSNBC staffers cop Spin, pick the best albums of the past 20 years
vanity  music  media 
july 2005 by jimray
Keep your cool
Drinks for summer, including my own sweet tea
vanity  summer  food 
july 2005 by jimray
Lazy lovers, listen up!
My Indie Study on The Brazilian Girls
vanity  indiestudy  music 
june 2005 by jimray
MSNBC 10 redesign live
Focus is on cleaner design, contextual ranking
media  vanity  design 
june 2005 by jimray
2005 NBA Mock Draft
Serially updated NBA draft simulator - pick who should go to what team
vanity  multimediajournalism  media  sports 
june 2005 by jimray
Big Picture: Civil Rights
Because I can never seem to find this when I use MSNBC's craptacular search engine
vanity  education  multimediajournalism  media 
june 2005 by jimray
2005 EPpy award winners announced in New Orleans
Two for MSNBC.com - best overall cable affiliate site and best special feature for the Civil Right Big Picture
vanity  media  awards 
june 2005 by jimray
Moby Checks in with 'Hotel'
I really wish I could write music review this well
music  npr  brilliant  vanity 
june 2005 by jimray
Pop tunes that will make jaded indie kids dance
My latest Indie Study, featuring NYC band Pitty Sing, is live
vanity  music  indiestudy 
may 2005 by jimray
The mixtape for your flying-car road trips - Independent Study
I'm published! I seriously have no idea why I'm so stoked about this, since I used to have a blog where I did this all the time...
music  vanity  indiestudy 
april 2005 by jimray

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