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Recommended links for the weekend: Columbia Daily Spectacle (UPDATED) – Details on what went down at the Columbia Spectator over last weekend. Frustrated with the leadership of the Editor-in-Chief and Managing Editor, the Online Editor decided to take the site offline until a list of demands had been met. WordPress 2.8.5: Hardening Release – Minor [...]

When hacking the student newsroom, you need a safe sandbox with which to experiment. That’s why this Thursday — at 4 PM Pacific/7 PM Eastern — we’re going to show you how to set up a WordPress instance solely for development purposes. If interested, you should RSVP to the Facebook Event as space will be [...]

For years, both The Chronicle’s staff and our readers knew we had a pretty nasty Web site. But like most college newspapers back in 2007, we didn’t have a robust online department and we treated our site with a level of respect even Rodney Dangerfield would have been surprised to witness. That all changed when [...]

Recommended links for the weekend: Lessons in journalism entrepreneurship from the ONA - Best advice from Om Malik: “Just do it.” Doing it is where you learn. A quick primer on making software – best practices, tools and further reading - Version control and defect tracking are probably going to be the newest concepts to the average [...]

Last year, as part of my day job, I helped relaunch the Whitman Pioneer with a new design. This year we wanted to keep innovating and decided to try an online-first workflow at the beginning of this semester. This means that we are now having reporters write all of their posts in WordPress and then copying [...]

That’s right: we’re rebranding our flagship podcast, This Week in CoPress. Henceforth known as College Media Lab, the new feature will broaden our show’s focus and modify its schedule. (We’ve got a new bump, too!) The synopsis of this week’s episode is as follows: The rise of Twitter has been the talk of the tech [...]

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Recently, the Minnesota Daily launched a new version of its Web site, mndaily.com. We launched our first version last year, and that was the first time we had used Drupal, a powerful open-source content management system (CMS). Although this new version is still built on Drupal, we have made significant improvements by taking much more [...]

Recommended links for the weekend: On value and valuation - Interesting discussion of the difference between a company or tool’s value and its valuation. Hint, it’s those with the higher value that will have a greater effect on the world (tks Andrew Spittle) In the forum, Brian Manzullo introduces an experiment at CM Life to contextualize [...]