Year: 2008
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Notes on getting serious about staffing for online news
Mark Potts on what it takes to shift a news organization’s focus from print to Web: “How many newspapers have a sizable staff responsible for managing print circulation? All of them of course. Now, how many have even one staff member responsible for managing online distribution via RSS, e-mail or Facebook? Damn few. How many…
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django-batchadmin – Google Code
Delete a batch of models in Django admin. Example: batch delete tags, comments, posts, etc. django-batchadmin – Google Code
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Technology is easy; labor is hard
Aron Pilhofer of nytimes.com on the hardware, software, and costs associated with building the best interactive data projects in the news business: Everything we use is free and open-source. Our platform is Ruby on Rails backed by Mysql databases running on Ubuntu servers. The cost here isn’t software, or even hardware, which is relatively cheap…
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Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter
Another Twitter-clone, but this time, create your microblogging network as one piece of a larger network of microblogging networks. Think: Ning. Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter
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Catering to information obsession
The moment that launched years of overzealous information consumption, filtering, sharing, and engagement, for me, was seeing Scoble’s feedreader on a screen in 2005. He was subscribed to 1200 feeds. Since then, he’s shifted his information production and consumption around from stream to stream as necessary to stay at the absolute front of the curve…
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Sunday morning links: Data, DocumentCloud, and the Obama Bounce for news
A few things I haven’t had time yet to dig deeper on, but maybe you will: Eric Ulken offers of 10 pieces of advice at OJR, based on his experience building the data desk at the LA Times: “4. Go off the reservation: No matter how good your IT department is, their priorities are unlikely…