Author: Ryan Sholin
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Relative readability / Wilson Miner
Wilson’s notes on redesigning with much larger type. I’m increasingly going this route. Relative readability / Wilson Miner
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Yes, I’m still talking about Twitter
Three links about Twitter you should see if you haven’t yet: Guy Kawasaki on How to use Twitter as a Twool. Katherine Boehret writes YASEOT (yet another simple explanation of Twitter), but it’s at the Wall Street Journal’s AllThingsD site, so your editor and publisher will read it this time. Old Media New Tricks has…
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Sometimes, robots just aren’t enough
TechMeme adds a human editor to make adjustments when the algorithm fails: “Any competent developer who tries to automate the selection of news headlines will inevitably discover that this approach always comes up a bit short. Automation does indeed bring a lot to the table — humans can’t possibly discover and organize news as fast…
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You are the future of journalism. Aren’t you?
Without much preamble, I highly recommend you enter Publish2’s “Are you the future of journalism?” contest, wherein you can WIN A JOB. Considering how many journalists lost their jobs today, and how many likely will lose their jobs tomorrow, and how many have lost their jobs this year, I’m betting there’s a pretty big pool…
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Dear Blogosphere, There’s more to newspapers than The New York Times
I’ve been holding back on this for a long time, and I write enough about the Web development team at nytimes.com enough to be held to this as well, but really, I’m incredibly tired of reading media and technology bloggers debate the future of news as if the only existing newspaper in the world is…
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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