CoPress

Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):

• 2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets – Daniel: New version of WordPress! Includes improvements to themes, adds multiple widgets, and offers more flexibility with taxonomies.
• Rise of the Data Scientist – Joey: The responsibilites of a data-journo.
• Product v. process journalism: The myth of perfection v. beta culture – Joey: Journalism shouldn’t strive for perfection before publication, but perfection through publication.
• The Future of Local Newspapers: Product vs Platform – Daniel: A new voice in the discussion with a few interesting ideas, such as having the community could buy into the ability of determining editorial voice and what gets covered.

Around the network

Daniel offered suggestions for redesigning a homepage in preparation for this week’s Design Camp session. Joey added his opinion,

• There’s tons of student groups that want attention and market that on facebook through events and groups – why can’t you take that info and post it on your site? Facebook is constantly updating and it’s just what you’re friends are doing. If 5% of the info from the whole school is good for general consumption, you’ve got a lot of info to present.
• A hefty chunk of groups want alumni support (monetary) give them an ad package that includes updating you with any event they do. You don’t have to write an article, but that data can be presented well.
• There are always events happening on campus. Everyday nearly. You just need to know about them. At a minimum, I bet you can add one new, “event on campus” to your homepage everyday.
• Do what you do best, link to the rest: pull in content from your local newspapers, publish2, ESPN for sports news, relevant articles about college in general (use Publish2!)

On the wiki, Lauren added updates to the Summer 2009 Projects page.