My latest projects

Patchwork Nation is a collaboration between the Christian Science Monitor and the Online NewsHour. It's a way to bring local context to national issues with a strong statistical backbone.

It's a framework to talk about demographic issues--race, class, religion--and explain how those issues affect our understanding of the ...

Journalists need new tools to work online. I started building this online database of such tools as a personal project, just a way to keep track of everything I was using. It has since grown into something I intend to launch publicly at some point.

A table of contents for my projects, wherever and in whatever state they may be. Yes, this is what you're reading now.

TwitBlog (working title) gathers tweets based on search parameters and orders them chronologically so they can be easily inserted into a blog post. It uses the Twitter Search API to do all the heavy lifting and parses the resulting ATOM feed.

This is a prototype timeline application I'm building for a potential employer. This version uses a simple Django back end (relying on the bundled admin app) that feeds into a Simile widget to organizes events.

The timeline pulls data from an XML feed generated from a generic object_list view.

Bookmarks allows logged in users to save objects within a site. It uses Django's generic relations convention and requires user registration of some kind.

This application grew out of my toolkit project and is on its way (slowly) to becoming a full-fledged standalone app.

This art and literature magazine launched online in 2006 and recently published its first print edition. I’m building a custom Django-powered content management system for the site, set to relaunch in December 2008.