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I'm Stijn Debrouwere. I help people create news websites that encourage exploration, tease out the context behind every story and have the rich structure and metadata that's needed for repurposing across platforms.

Latest writing

post Waarom onderzoeksjournalistiek?
post Simple, good things
post The importance of being informed
quote Civic apathy
post In defense of pageviews
post Metrics are for doing, not for staring
post Your metrics suck
quote How the NYT paywall is working
comment The death of online advertising
post Local newspapers, news deserts and simple stuff
post On punditry
post The news industry and its problems
quote If technology looks like a black box
quote This Tech Bubble Is Different
review The E-Myth Revisited
quote Journalistiek en grote democratische principes
comment What happens?
comment News articles as assets and paths
quote Crimes against social
comment Baseline of knowledge
post Fungible
quote Young Traditionalists
post A hard-knock life
quote Paywall logic
quote Just passing through
post Return of the Brands
post Taxonomies don't matter anymore
quote Journalists' right
post Battling banner blindness
quote Advertising
quote Who we enable
post Frictionless
quote Eye-opening
quote Paralysis
comment Gaat politiek over feiten?
post 37% there
post Give me a strategy and I'll show you a success
post Lesgeven in Ethiopië
post Getting it
post Prototyping with Draughtsman
post Designers need engineers
quote Reading is for suckers
comment Day-old news
post A wild success and an utter failure
post The Five-Minute News Break
comment The Rise of the Internet (Anti)-Intellectual?
comment Just a matter of time
quote Great Expectations
post On bundles and blobs
post Making money with media
quote Anti-patterns
comment Designer languages and incidental complexity
quote What Your Old Graphing Calculator Says About Technology
post Philosophy
post Filosofie
post Macho programming
post Real names and the golden mean
comment Trends, crack and special sauce
post A consultant's lament
post Git in the newsroom
comment On APIs, vanity and loose coupling
comment The Andy Rutledge Debacle
post A culture of coders
comment Making the news fun again
post Machine Learning Fairy Dust
quote Don't worry about what the world needs
post Pimp My Reader
quote Metadata
post The post-CMS CMS
quote Other People's Papers
post Dataviz and beauty
comment What is hyperlocal?
post Django modules looking for new maintainers
post About Apture, and getting a free lunch
post When websites stopped being things
quote The Imperfectionists: A Novel
post Schrijven zoals grote mensen
post Giswerk
post Het draait om meer dan visie alleen
post The trouble with usability experts
quote Meetings
post Het Hawthorne-effect
quote A jab at J-schools
post A noble sacrifice
post Lobbying for open data
post Ter nalezing
comment Weltschmerz about higher education
post Context is not a bolt-on
quote Nobody likes their CMS
quote Perfect
quote If I care enough about your content
quote Where do you get your money?
post Wat open-source was, wat open-source is
quote A sad anachronism
post A sudden realization about NoSQL
post Expertise
quote I just realized something…
comment A Digital Future For News
comment Async
quote Underhype
post django-revisions 0.3
post The Semantic Web, again
comment Geen error 404 pagina bij Google?
comment 2011 Skill of the Year
post A much-needed poison
comment TurboGears joins the Pylons Project
post Happy birthday, CoffeeScript
post Looking for a co-conspirator
comment The Knight News Challenge, from One Judge's Perspective
post Buildout
post Introducing Extendables
post There's more to i18n than meets the eye
quote Construction
review A Practical Guide to Information Architecture
comment What is a (news) CMS
comment What is a (news) CMS?
post De wereld volgens Karl
post The interoperable web
post Better reader comments through priming
quote Debugging
post Denk twee keer na voor je non-profit gaat
talk Sprinkles on top — live from the DDJ
post Two cultures in media criticism
quote The Bimodal Theory Of News
quote Economic Models Are Background Noise
comment External links from news sites - what should the user experience be?
post Koning Middelmaat
comment Follow-up journalism? Timeless journalism? It is the tyranny of chronology that gets in the way...
post Are information architects UX designers?
comment Top 10 'schoonheidsfoutjes' nieuwssites
quote Commodities Hold No Profit
quote Admitting You Have Competitors
post The WWTDD effect
guestpost The WWTDD effect
post Curation is boring
quote Wij Komen Naar Jullie
quote A Bunch Of Grapes
post Wie heeft nog journalisten nodig?
post Change is hard
quote The Stuff Of Everyday Life
quote The Psychology Of Getting People To Pay For Stuff
comment Innovatie bij mediabedrijven verloopt in kleine stappen
comment Professional Silos
post Geef je primeurs weg!
post C3
comment Kwaliteit versus pulp
comment Empathie
post The business plan *is* the plan
comment Sociality and Search
post Hack de overheid
post Wie geeft nog een moer om recensies?
comment Launching a site
post The future of investigative journalism
guestpost The future of investigative journalism
post Generic views suck
comment Obstakels voor een context-gerichte nieuwssite
post Clueless
comment Public Parts
comment Now served with Slicehost
post Conversational journalism
post Journalistiek is een gesprek
quote Digital Sharecropping
comment Text Classification for Sentiment Analysis
quote Treating Print Poorly
post Hoe ik het nieuws graag zou lezen
comment The Newsonomics of simplicity
post IA for news websites: a link dump
comment Journalism is access
quote Send People Away
quote See What We Can Do
quote Programming
quote Entrepreneurs Are Farmers
quote Average Quality
comment How much computer science does a journalist really need?
comment Getting kitted up (again) for video journalism
post Findability and Exploration: the future of search
comment BCNI Notes: Design Roundtable “News Sites Still Suck”
quote Unhospitable Environments
post The Basic Unit of Information
comment Interrogating data
post We're in the information business
quote Every Interaction Might Be The Whole Thing
post Navigation headaches
post Ik stop ermee
comment Don't mistake your CMS for a development platform
post There's nothing wrong with apps
post Themes and topics
post Tags don't cut it
post Information architecture for news websites
post An identity team for Python
quote The Math Is Magical
quote Django And Bike Shedding
quote Pageviews
post Coder happiness in Drupal and Django, part II: putting together a project
review The Dip
guestpost Abolish tags, say hi to relationships
post Don't reward broccoli journalism
post Context!
post Broccoli-journalistiek
guestpost Overheidssteun en broccoli-journalistiek
quote A Tent In The Desert
quote A Lot Of Business Models Are Based On Scarcity
quote The Most Complicated Thought You Can Think Is One Sentence Long
quote It Does Not Switch Off
quote Unfinished Magic
comment The first rule of coding for Drupal
post Coder happiness in Drupal and Django, part I: hacking away
post Geef inspraak aan nerds
post Een blog, dus
post A rumination on blogging
quote Keep Feature Ideas In The Freezer
comment Eindredactie bij The New Yorker
comment De technologie van ‘Titanics’ versus The Huffington Post & Talking Points Memo
quote The Ink Stained Wretch
quote Here Is A Vision For You
quote How To Save Journalism
guestpost Schamper, our student newspaper on Drupal

You can see what I'm bookmarking and reading on my delicious page.

Projects

All my contributions to open-source software live at GitHub.

Work

I work with information. I think about how information gets created, stored, how it travels around, is categorized, found, managed and how to meaningfully present all that information to users. So my work fits somewhere in between UX design, software architecture, taxonomy and process management.

Stuff

Photos on Flickr. An infrequently updated tumblog with jazz and random noise called Dr. Livingstone, I presume? A profile on Dopplr. I'm @stdbrouw on twitter. I love to chat with like-minded people, so feel free to just drop me a line over email, if 140 characters just won't do.