Author Archives: Danny Sanchez

About Danny Sanchez

Danny Sanchez is the Audience Development Manager at Tribune's Sun-Sentinel.com and OrlandoSentinel.com. Danny has been with Tribune since 2005 in a variety of editorial, digital and product development roles in Hartford, Orlando and Fort Lauderdale. He has also previously worked in the newsrooms of the Tampa Bay Times and The Miami Herald.

Yahoo! strikes down message boards

Posted on December 21, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

Is there a possible trend brewing here? Yahoo! News announced it has nuked its message boards because they have been causing “a small number of vocal users to dominate the discussion.” The Arizona Daily Star recently zapped ts boards as … Continue reading →

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Should newspapers follow the MySpace example?

Posted on December 18, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

As newspapers increasingly ramp out Web 2.0 features, Ryan Sholin ponders whether we should be following MySpace’s example and start ramping out our own social networks. I’d argue that, if we were to prioritize our efforts, we should be emulating … Continue reading →

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‘You’ is Time’s Person of the Year

Posted on December 17, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

Well this is a lot cooler than “The Whistleblowers” or the Ayatollah. TIME magazine has decided that Web users, or “You” are this year’s Person of the Year, thanks to the emergence of blogs and YouTube as a political and … Continue reading →

Posted in citizen journalism, web 2.0 | 3 Comments

Instamatic rounded corner CSS boxes

Posted on December 16, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

Dear readers, this is perhaps as wonderful as the previously mentioned Table Tango. I’ve just stumbled across Roundedcornr.com, a Web site that quickly creates the code and images for those nifty little rounded boxes you see all over the place … Continue reading →

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Quick HTML bar graphs with Excel, Table Tango

Posted on December 14, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

Stop using those annoying spacer GIFs or using weird CSS tricks, and try out this awesome technique for creating wicked cool online bar graphs in 5 minutes or less: INGREDIENTS: Microsoft Excel A pinch of math Table Tango (you’re going … Continue reading →

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Daily Star zaps reader comments

Posted on December 13, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

The Arizona Daily Star, apparently fed up with the army of trolls on its message boards, has delivered the online equivalent of capital punishment: it has shut down several of its boards. The reason, from executive editor Bobbie Jo Buel: … Continue reading →

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Yahoo gets all shook up

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

The AP reports that Yahoo is going through with its long-awaited restructuring. The changes come in light of their struggling stock price and a notorious memo by one of its vice-presidents, which has been dubbed ‘The Peanut Butter Manifesto’ (read … Continue reading →

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Web design inspiration galleries

Posted on December 5, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

Thanks be to Angela Grant and Will Sullivan for drawing attention to this fabulous Flickr gallery featuring screenshots for design inspiration. All dried up for ideas? Here are some other good ones to bookmark: CSS-Galleries, Web Creme, CoolHomePages, and, in … Continue reading →

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Fort Myers News-Press works its mojo … yeah, baby!

Posted on December 4, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

Check out this Washington Post article documenting the efforts of the mojos (that’s buzzspeak for “mobile journalists”) at Gannett’s Fort Myers News Press. This hardy group of young journalists roams the city with Kevin Sites-like gear bags and reports on … Continue reading →

Posted in newspaper design, web 2.0, writing and editing | 1 Comment

Will users work for content and like it?

Posted on December 1, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

[UPDATE: 12-2-06, 11:28 p.m. — Some good discussion is going on in the comments.] Would making users jump through a few hoops make your content more valuable and more viewed? Amy Gahran from Poynter writes about an EmailWeb.us, an e-mail service that … Continue reading →

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Possibly the most overused word in sports

Posted on November 29, 2006 by Danny Sanchez

It’s used to describe “Jack Macpherson, a key figure in the 1960s Southern California surf scene,” a New York pizza maker and “Bo Schembechler, who became one of college football’s great coaches.” They’re all “legends” or “legendary.” With all due … Continue reading →

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They’re watching your edits (Part II)