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Hot Type does NewsFoo

Chase Davis/
November 26, 2011

Both Matt and Chase will be in Phoenix, Ariz., next weekend for O’Reilly Media’s annual NewsFoo unconference. Among the many things we’re interested in talking about are the future of news applications as standalone products; the application of Big Data concepts MORE »

A (belated) congrats to the Armstrong team

Chase Davis/
March 17, 2011

A big congrats goes out to our friends at the Texas Tribune and the Bay Citizen for the open-sourcing of their Armstrong content-management system, a project funded by the Knight Foundation and announced last week at South By Southwest. Armstrong is close to MORE »

Hacking the core

Matt Waite/
March 8, 2011

These are ideas that have been bouncing around in my head for a while, but the Nieman Journalism Labs asked me to put my thoughts down about newsapps and programmer/journalists. The results were posted this morning. From the essay: “All MORE »

Finally! A real website!

Chase Davis/
February 19, 2011

We know: It took us long enough. Matt and I decided to consolidate our freelance work under the banner of Hot Type Consulting about two years ago, and I think it’s fair to say that neither of us expected things MORE »