In a search for projects to work on this summer, Will Davis, incoming EIC of The Maine Campus which migrated this summer to WordPress MU, has decided to build a better email newsletters plugin for WordPress. A free option available right now is MailPress but the feature set offers a lot of room for improvement. [...]
July 28, 2009
Better email newsletters for WordPress
July 17, 2009
WordPress, DjangoCon and a few summer project updates
There are oh so many wondrous things for you to click on this weekend (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):
Is Crowdfunding the Future of Journalism? – Crowdfunding may or may not be the future of journalism, but crowdlinking is one way of determining which stories are hot. Everyone who’s anyone linked to this story on Twitter. [...]
July 14, 2009
Design Camp Session Six recap: The feature’s on features
This past Thursday was the last session of the summer for the Design Camp. Jackie Hai from the Amherst Wire led Daniel, Joey, Lauren, Greg, Kevin Koehler, Ben Leis, and myself through some of the different considerations that go into designing pages for special features.
Designing Special Feature Pages
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July 11, 2009
Wiki and structured data galore
Here are the top links you should check out over the weekend (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):
AP, Media Standards Trust Propose News Microformat – Just announced yesterday, the microformat means a markup specifically for the type of metadata in news articles. They want to make the content even more machine-readable such that more data is [...]
July 3, 2009
Projects to play with over the summer
Yes, we missed last week. Here are the top links for the last two weeks that you should check out over the holiday weekend (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup):
Two Knight News Challenge projects have been open-sourced: EveryBlock and ReportingOn. With the right developers and the right ideas, both of these code bases could be the [...]
July 1, 2009
Design Camp Session Five recap: It’s wiki time!
This last Thursday’s session of the Summer Web Design Camp was all about what goes into creating, designing, and coding a news wiki. Daniel and Will led Lauren Rabaino, Max Cutler, Mo Jangda, Greg Linch, and myself through a discussion of how to set up and effectively deploy a news wiki.
News Wikis
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