Over at the Knight News Challenge blog, I’ve contributed a short list of tips on dealing with developers and choosing a platform for your project:
“3. Hire human beings, not a programming language or Web framework. Unless you’re doing the programming yourself, stay focused on your end goal and steer clear of mandating how the humans [...]
All about web development
Notes on managing technology decisions
September 11, 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 [...]
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 [...]
I forget useful code, but Snipt remembers.
December 8, 2008
If you’re anything like me, you’re not really a Web developer by trade, but you push around a little bit of code on an extremely regular basis. And often, it’s the same little bits of code over and over again. And every time you need to use it, you go flipping through text files, Google [...]
Howard Weaver’s exit interview
December 4, 2008
I was struck by a few things in Howard Weaver’s post announcing that he’s leaving McClatchy — and journalism — at the end of the year.
For one thing, Howard’s a damn fine writer.
I haven’t agreed with everything he’s said or done as I’ve followed his blog for the last couple years, but I recognized that [...]