A lot of talk about platforms for news these days, no?
A sampling:
Joey Baker at CoPress defines one of the many things that “newspaper platform” could mean to a local news site:
“…taking lessons from Gawker, Slashdot and the New York Times, and aggregating everything. If there’s a story online that’s relevant to your community, link to [...]
All about software
Be the platform, use the platform, syndicate the platfom
February 24, 2009
Check out my online news toolbox
September 8, 2008
I finally finished a basic Tools page to start a list of some of the basic, mostly-free, mostly-embeddable applications that I recommend for quick and simple Web production.
It’s not intended to be all-encompassing; it’s just a short list of things I find useful. You might find them useful, too.
But if you have any suggestions for [...]
Dealing with the elephant: Build the software you need, then sell it.
August 21, 2008
This is the fourth post in a short series I’m pretty much done with about the business model for online news before I go back to my usual routine of pointing out the obvious to people wearing dark glasses. The starting point, the givens in the equation, are listed here. Suggest which windmill I should [...]
Modernize your newsroom today
January 14, 2008
Many employees at news organizations have a very easy time blaming out-of-date computers, front-end print publishing systems, and Web content management systems on such faceless, amorphous entities as “Corporate,” or perhaps “The Budget.”
Nevertheless, there are plenty of free or not-completely-expensive ways you can modernize your newsroom today.
Here are 5.
Use Google Documents (or any one of [...]
Five ways to innovate today
November 28, 2007
A colleague looking for a few new ways to integrate free Web services into his newsroom asked me to chip in with a list of five, so here they are. A note to student journalists: These are all free and easy ways to get something new and different online, and they probably serve a [...]