Over at the PBS IdeaLab blog, where I write about the development of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project, I just posted something that starts to get into what Phase 2 of the “back channel for your beat” is going to look like.
Well, not what it’s going to *look* like exactly, but how it’s going [...]
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On IdeaLab: ReportingOn, rephrased in the form of a question
March 26, 2009
On IdeaLab: DIY development, design, community management, and marketing isn’t for me (this year)
December 12, 2008
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted an update on what’s going on with ReportingOn, which is to say, there’s not much going on with ReportingOn. For now.
My Knight News Challenge-funded project to connect journalists on the same topical beat with their peers launched on October 1. I continued development work on it through the month of [...]
IdeaLab: Microblogging tools for your newsroom
October 16, 2008
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted a rundown of some of the internal Twitter for Enterprise type services that are out there at the moment, from the Prologue theme for WordPress (free!) to Backpack Journal from 37signals (not free!).
Plus, there’s a bit about the feature inspiration I picked up yesterday at blip.fm.
The evolving list of features [...]
IdeaLab: One week of ReportingOn, international style
October 8, 2008
Yes, yes, I know I haven’t written much here lately, but my reading and blogging time is mostly getting happily occupied with development on ReportingOn, which has been open for a week now in a public beta.
The most noticeable thing about ReportingOn so far is the strong Spanish- and Portugeuse-speaking turnout. Seriously, North America, where [...]
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 [...]