Quick hits

Congrats to DeVigal
One of the coolest people I have had the pleasure to meet is Andrew DeVigal, who talked to a class I was in at the Poynter Institute.

Now DeVigal, who has been an assistant professor at San Francisco State, will be he New York Times' new multimedia editor. Jonathan Dube has the details from the Times' memo.

(And, of course, I should have noted DeVigal is the founder of interactivenarratives.org, one of my favorite sites on the Web.)


This is just cool
Mindy McAdams points to a YouTube video from the TED 2006 conference that showed off a new "multitouch" computer interface. It's intuitive and scalable (imagine a projected keyboard on the screen that you can size to fit your hands. And you thought it was already easy for "civilians" to create content ...