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Good question on awareness. I don't know. I think a lot of people see it, but I'd guess far fewer study it.
Another thing I'll say about Sunlight (both the main foundation and the Labs): They seem to have committed to the…"
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Chris Amico replied to Saleem Khan's discussion Innovation outside journalism that we should bring inChris Amico replied to Saleem Khan's discussion Innovation outside journalism that we should bring in"A couple from the Sunlight Foundation (which, I should say, does partner with news organizations):
- The influence of foreign lobbyists: This is a partnership with ProPublica. They built an app to track lobbying on behalf of foreign governments,…"
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A group to discuss Web site content management systems from Ellington to Drupal to College Publisher to Expression Engine to WordPress and everything else. What do you use? How is it working out for you? What would be your ideal CMS?
Greg Linch commented on Chris Amico's blog post More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers."I understand why the XML import sounds so attractive to many college news orgs, but I think it represents a step backwards. I don't think college media should be shoveling (automatically or manually) your print edition online. Ideally,I think…"
David Molloy commented on Chris Amico's blog post More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers."The single greatest advantage of Drupal at the moment is that there are efforts being made to integrate it with InDesign's XML abilities, as noted above. The downside is it's highly technical. ExpressionEngine is another promising route…"
Chris Amico commented on Chris Amico's blog post More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers."Greg, you guys did well with Wordpress all around. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Daily Tar Heel does, too.
I think the lesson still stands: Building on an open source platform will get you farther for cheaper than a proprietary CMS."
Greg Linch commented on Chris Amico's blog post More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers."The e-mail notice for the latest comment reminded me about this post. As a follow-up, The Hurricane ended up using WordPress and it's been very successful.
There has been some more Drupal news in the college realm in the past year, with orgs…"
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Tools for News, one week in
A week ago, I opened up Tools for News, my Django-powered database of software and web applications journalists* can use to make our lives easier and do our jobs better.
The site is pretty simple (and if I can make it more so, I will): Browse through the categories and look for what you're trying to do. Find what you need. Go use it. If you get stuck on the site looking for something and can't find it, I did something wrong (… Continue
The site is pretty simple (and if I can make it more so, I will): Browse through the categories and look for what you're trying to do. Find what you need. Go use it. If you get stuck on the site looking for something and can't find it, I did something wrong (… Continue
Posted on January 5, 2009 at 9:05pm
There must be a better way
I've been pouring over government budgets today, trying to find something interesting in the California Department of Justice outlays in the May Revise. Thrilling stuff.
Part of what makes this so mind-numbing is the way information is packaged. Nearly everything is in PDFs. So when I'm trying to crunch numbers, the fastest way I found to do it is
Part of what makes this so mind-numbing is the way information is packaged. Nearly everything is in PDFs. So when I'm trying to crunch numbers, the fastest way I found to do it is
- Copy and paste a long list of line items into a plain text editor
- manually turn that into a CSV, using find/replace…
Posted on May 15, 2008 at 9:20pm
Future Newsrooms, sort of
I was at the Future of Newsrooms panel in Berkeley the other night and noticed a couple other people from this group in the audience. Love to hear reactions from anyone else who went.
Here's the description:
Here's the description:
Everyone is talking about the future of the newsroom in this new digital world where young people get their news from YouTube and Facebook, and traditional print journalists have seen…Continue
Posted on February 22, 2008 at 1:50pm
More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers.
Cross-posted in part from Eyes East
This might sound odd coming from someone learning Django, but bear with me. Kevin Anderson of Strange Attractor posed an interesting question the other…
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