Gillian Reagan

The Cubicle Queue: Charlie Brown, Best Viral Videos, and a Sad Doc on Puppies

By Gillian Reagan | December 10, 2009 | 1:02 pm

Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.... MORE >

The Man at Google News Just Wants to Help

By Gillian Reagan | December 8, 2009 | 6:30 pm

Last week, Josh Cohen, Google News' senior business project manager, was in Washington, D.C., at a Federal Trade Commission-organized workshop titled "How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age?" He appeared onstage before a crowd of journalists, entrepreneurs and F.T.C. policy lawmakers in a slate-colored jacket, white shirt and black patterned tie. Heavy navy cur-tains and an American flag hung behind... MORE >

Time Inc.'s Squires Reveals Digital Consortium

By Gillian Reagan | December 8, 2009 | 12:07 pm

Time Inc.'s John Squires is making it official. The five-publisher strong alliance between Time Inc., Conde Nast, Hearst, Meredith and News Corp is starting work today on building the most comprehensive digital store for publishers.... MORE >

A Demo of the Future: Sports Illustrated on a Tablet

By Gillian Reagan | December 4, 2009 | 2:57 pm

Terry McDonnell, editor of Sports Illustrated, explains how their magazine will work in tablet form in this video... MORE >

The Cubicle Queue: Taxi Driver, Baby Johnny Depp, New Yorker 'Path Lights' and More!

By Gillian Reagan | December 3, 2009 | 1:57 pm

Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web. Taxi Driver on Hulu — Taxi Driver needs no introduction. Put one of Martin Scorsese's best in your Hulu queue for one of those dark, wintery nights. ... MORE >

Inside the Times' Blog World

By Gillian Reagan | December 2, 2009 | 3:06 pm

Which New York Times blogs are doing well and why? That's a question some members of the masthead are asking as preparations are made to reduce the newsroom by 100 bodies in the coming weeks. Here's a peek inside some of the Times' most popular blogs, as offered by the editors: Wendell Jamieson, deputy metropolitan editor for the Web who oversees City Room, the blog about New York for New... MORE >

Sorkin.

As Times Staff Shrinks, Blogs Will Be 'Pruned'

By Gillian Reagan | December 1, 2009 | 7:35 pm

Early last month, when Times executive editor Bill Keller hosted a “Throw Stuff at Bill” chat soon after announcing 100 newsroom job cuts, he assured staffers that executives would be proceeding carefully. “What you can do with less, is less,” said Mr. Keller. “But if you are smart and careful, you can limit the... MORE >

Drawing Gender Lines on the Web

By Gillian Reagan | November 30, 2009 | 1:20 pm

Women are more likely to be chatting it up on Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites you've probably never heard of, like "Bebo." According to data taken from Google's U.S. Ad Planner, a site that tracks popular Web sites' traffic, 84 percent (or 16 out of 19) of the sites they studied have more female than male users. However, social news sites, which rank news stories across the Web, were ruled by the... MORE >

The Cubicle Queue: Escape on Hulu, Learn to Cook a Turkey, and More

By Gillian Reagan | November 25, 2009 | 11:58 am

Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web. A Thanksgiving survival guide on Hulu - Admit it: You'll probably be spending at least some of your Thanksgiving vacation hiding away from family members in your bedroom or at least firing up the laptop to watch some movies on the plane. Let Hulu be your... MORE >

The Cubicle Queue: The New Yorker's Funny People, Everyday New Yorkers, and More!

By Gillian Reagan | November 19, 2009 | 2:54 pm

Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web.... MORE >

Anil Dash.

Dash to D.C.! Tech Guru Will Head Gov't Incubator, Digitize Democracy

By Gillian Reagan | November 18, 2009 | 7:00 am

Last February, Anil Dash; the co-founder and “chief evangelist” for Six Apart, the company that creates the most popular blogging software in the world; was visiting his family in India for the first time in 25 years, explaining what he does for a living. Mr. Dash, 34, is an influential tech blogger and consultant who coaxed business executives and newspaper editors into embracing social media long before every site from The New York Times... MORE >

Time's Techland: The Nerdy Wonderland

By Gillian Reagan | November 16, 2009 | 12:21 pm

Nerds, rev your browsers! Time Inc. has just launched a new site titled Techland. In his introductory post, technology editor Peter Ha writes: "Think of TECHLAND as the water cooler for nerds. Or, the way I see it, TECHLAND is the result of some weird orgy involving Jeff Albertson, a Cylon, Lev Grossman and Nikola Tesla. Weird, right? But it just... MORE >

The Cubicle Queue: Hitchcock Speaks, Lou Dobbs' Greatest Hits, and More.

By Gillian Reagan | November 12, 2009 | 3:33 pm

Tired of clicking around YouTube and iTunes for online videos of substance? Search no more! The Observer has your weekly handy guide to what's worth watching on the Web. How to draw a New Yorker cover - Speaking of the last magazine standing, artist Jorge Colombo sketched another one of his New Yorker covers with the iPhone Brushes application.... MORE >

Send the Google Street View Trike to Central Park (Or the Zoo)!

By Gillian Reagan | November 10, 2009 | 7:18 pm

Last month, Google announced that they had invented a "Street View trike." Their Street View car could roll down traditional roads and take pictures for their popular maps feature. But it couldn't document hard-to-access trails, parks, landmarks and sports venues.... MORE >

Esquire's Augmented Reality Issue

By Gillian Reagan | November 9, 2009 | 3:18 pm

A few weeks ago, Hearst Corp's Esquire announced that they'd debut a snazzy new "augmented reality" issue and be the first publication to take the relatively new technology into its pages. AR, the hot new trend in iPhone apps, layers data, images and video that users can interact with in real-time.... MORE >