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Peter Bhat Harkins
Choose Your Candidate
Biz: 2008 presidential campaign, politics, Washington Post, WashingtonPost.com
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I haven’t posted a work update in a while, because mostly I’ve had a lull between projects and a new coworkers, so we’ve been cleaning out the bug and minor feature list. There’s a really neat project I want to link to called
Choose Your Candidate that I was only peripherally involved with (I gave advice for how to do the ranking math).
Post: Politics and Blogs
Biz: 2008 presidential campaign, blog directory, blogs, Clinton, donations, endorsements, Obama, politics, Romney, search, search engine, WashingtonPost.com
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The Politics team has kept me busy the last two weeks at the Post, so I’ve got plenty to mention here. The 2008 Campaign Tracker has gotten some big new features. Pull up Barack Obama (my former-hometown’s hero) and look at the column on the right side.
Post: The Moby Quotient
Biz: Washington Post, WashingtonPost.com, work
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On Friday I put up an app to let folks calculate and share the Moby Quotient of songs — a measurement of how much an artist sold out by allowing their work to be used in a commercial. The app is a companion to a story in the Post.
The article ran in the Sunday paper and we were hoping folks would take it in to work and argue with coworkers about what numbers to assign to which band and we’ve been happy with how much traffic we saw. And a few hours ago a Metafilter story went up about it, which is pretty dang cool.
Post: Politics Glossary
Biz: politics, Washington Post, WashingtonPost.com, work
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Today the first project I built launched, the Politics Glossary. It’s a small site cataloging political jargon and all the writing is done by the Politics department. Actually, one of the best things about this job is getting to meet folks at all levels and departments in the Post.
WashingtonPost.com
Biz: Washington Post, WashingtonPost.com, work
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Today I added code to the Washington Post’s 2007 Presidential Field to show campaign events by type. I’ve joined Washington Post/Newsweek Interactive as a web developer (Python with Django) and this is my first code to go live.