Stories from my career at MarketWatch and musings on the media business. I recall dinner with former colleagues, share anecdotes about forecasting and describe the “Two Second Test” for news websites.
Today I’m closing a very long chapter in my career. This is my last day at Dow Jones/MarketWatch. This transition has been in the works for a while. It was announced in January and over the course of the following months I’ve been able to wrap-up some projects, transition others …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: MarketWatch, Dow Jones Chapter ClosingThere are a few points in the history of BigCharts and MarketWatch that I’m especially proud of. Perhaps one of the most prominent ones, and most public, is the inclusion of the BigCharts BigArchitecture (the name we retroactively gave the COM-infrastructure behind MarketWatch …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Flashback: MarketWatch in Windows 2000 LaunchI sent this tweet four hours ago. Your getting it now, in the future, from me in the past.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Why is it so predictable that the one button Mazie would be most obsessed with on my MacBook Pro is the POWER button.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
<?php echo get_avatar($comment, '50'); ?> and it does everything, entire IMG tag.One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
I wish time didn’t go so very fast when I’m jamming on my laptop in the evening.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
The question isnt if, but to what extent, I’m addicted to the Internet.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
Life Tip #845: Completely finish the electrical wiring work on your aquarium before filling it with water and putting fish in it. Ugh!
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.
I’ve been cleaning up some old, old files on my machine and have run into some really fun stuff. I’ll have a few posts with some of this stuff. Here is a fake homepage for MarketWatch that was created by our editorial team in San Francisco on the day that webfront died. You see, …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Flashback: The Day Webfront DiedAt a dinner with at least 10 doctors. Tempted to stab myself with a knife to see some action.
One of the tweets highlighted in my MarketWatch Farewell Video.