I’ve been a nomad for a few days in the middle of a short-by-my-standards 300+ mile move from the suburbs of Rochester, NY to the suburbs of Washington D.C. and boy are my legs tired.
But I’m catching up on my reading, and found a few things to share with you on the theme of catching [...]
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Catch up or get left behind
September 2, 2009
Announcing: ReportingOn 2.0 is live
July 2, 2009
ReportingOn 2.0 is live and ready for your questions. And answers.
It’s still the backchannel for your beat, but it’s an absolute re-imagining of the network.
For those of you who haven’t been keeping score, ReportingOn is a project funded by the Knight News Challenge, and it’s a place for journalists of all stripes to find [...]
IdeaLab: DIY Django development at ReportingOn
October 3, 2008
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted a bit of background on why I ended up building ReportingOn in Django instead of Drupal. Frankly, to the users of the site, it shouldn’t matter which platform I chose, but to me, and to the future of the project as an open source basis for news organizations, I think [...]
Launching ReportingOn 1.0
October 1, 2008
This is an experiment.
I launched what I’ll call ReportingOn 1.0 this afternoon, as an unfinished application to help journalists of all stripes make connections based on their beat.
It’s the word “unfinished” that’s the most experimental part of this right now.
I guess it’s my translation of “iterative.”
The premise is this: Launch what you have ready, knowing [...]
Cross-pollinate or shrivel
September 19, 2008
I’m profoundly enthralled by things like rapid news-driven development in Django, and building a CMS that can switch from a beautiful feature layout to a Drudge-like breaking news linkbomb on a dime, and of course, leveraging the steady stream of free embeddable tools showing up online every day for your own newsy purposes.
But none of [...]