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Danny DeFreitas 650 days ago
We’re very excited to bring our users a new sports section. msnbc.com and NBC Sports have partnered to create the new NBCSports.com. It can still be found by clicking on "Sports" in the left-hand navigation of msnbc.com, but once you do, you'll find a redesigned section that builds on the quality you're accustomed to. What's new? More sports videos in a new video player, NBC Sports personalities including John Madden, Bob Costas, Al Michaels, Jerome Bettis and Johnny Miller, and special content from NBC Sports’ marquee coverage of NFL’s Sunday Night Football, Notre Dame, NHL, the PGA Tour and the USGA. We'll also have more fantasy sports coverage from Rotoworld. We know changes like this can be hard to get used to, but we also know change is necessary to make improvements. We hope you agree that's what we've done, and we hope you'll tell us what else you'd like to see. So fire away, let us know what you think!
Phil Zepeda 652 days ago
About a week and a half ago we published an investigative report on bridge inspections. I was part of the team that worked on the related Bridge Tracker, an interactive map tied to a database that provides specific information on bridges that you would cross along any given route within the continental U.S. For you geeks out there, we had a proxy specially built to pass info from Virtual Earth to MapPoint, which contained a bridge database that we got from the government through a FOIA request. And yes, it’s all harder than it sounds. Three months of blood, sweat and tears went into this project. I realize that’s a long time, especially in the news business, but we’re still learning how to do this kind of reporting effectively and efficiently. We’re still learning how programmers and reporters (two very different breeds) can work together to create compelling journalism. Anyway, we think the Bridge Tracker is useful (of course!), but what really matters is what you ...Ben Tesch 658 days ago
There are plenty of ways you might find out about breaking news: you might happen to visit a website just as something is happening, you might be watching TV or listening to the radio, maybe you get a call or instant message or email from a friend, or find out through our breaking news RSS feed or Windows Live Alerts, or hear about it from us or another person on Twitter (have I mentioned we have several accounts on various topics on Twitter?). I found out about 9/11 from eavesdropping on a phone conversation while waiting in line for coffee. Like I said, plenty of ways. Hearing about it is one thing. Finding out more about it might be another. If you hear about it on the web, maybe you turn on your TV to be up-to-the-minute. If you see it on the TV first, maybe you call a friend to tell them about it, or go to the web to read more about it. Needless to say, there are plenty of ways to hear about something, and plenty of options to learn more about it. ...Tony Patino 661 days ago
I'm hyped about the election process. Seriously hyped. If you asked my family, my girlfriend, my friends, my imaginary friends, and my pet goldfish, they'd tell you that I talk about it pretty much every day and they're ready for me to shut up about it already. Much to the dismay of all the aforementioned people, I have found myself thrust into a project here that has only fueled my polit-intoxication: Politics Widgets that you can embed on your blog, your Facebook account, or any other website for that matter. Many of you are already familiar with our Candidates + Issues Matrix that allows you to rate your level of satisfaction with the positions of the presidential candidates. Another application that will become increasingly interesting as the primary season heads into Super Tuesday is our Elections '08 Leaderboard. This contest could very easily come down to delegate count if multiple candidates refuse to concede before the end of the race, and totals could ...
Lisa Wilkins 669 days ago
I’ll admit I’m not the biggest sports fan. I know that the Super Bowl is coming up (football, right?), at hockey games you watch the puck, and that Safeco Field has the best views of the Olympic Mountains and Puget Sound (only because I wasn’t watching the Mariners game I attended). But when msnbc.com’s Whine of the Week article plays the world’s smallest violin for well-paid sports-babies, I can’t get enough! So how did I become a Whine junkie in a section I rarely tread? Well, admittedly, I do work here in site UI design, so I sort of need to know where everything lives. But as I said, I’m not a sports fan, so where would a non-sporting, design-geek type find the very entertaining weekly Whine? This is where you, our esteemed readers, come into play. What drives you to crossover into a topic you would have never gone before? Did you discover the Answer Desk by John Schoen accidentally or are you savvy with our business section? How about accessing yesterday’s Nightly ...
