The Yale Daily News hosted the “Conference for Newspaper Business at Yale” Friday and Saturday, gathering the student leaders of the business sides of a bunch of college newspapers. Representatives from Yale, Brown, Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, Tufts, Duke, Georgetown, Boston College gathered, including myself representing CoPress and Penn. Over the two days, we heard from [...]
January 31, 2010
Recap: College Newspaper Business and Web Conference at Yale
January 25, 2010
Introducing Courier 0.3
Courier, my open source e-mail newsletter plugin for WordPress, is now an official product of CoPress. Although this change won’t mean much to the everyday user, for CoPress clients, it means guaranteed support for any technical issues related to the plugin. The everyday user will notice improvements to the latest version of the plugin. A [...]
January 19, 2010
We’re making distributed collaboration the phrase for 2010
First, a bit of history. CoPress started in August 2008 when I wrote a post calling for an open source alternative to the dominant proprietary content management system in the student media market. Greg Linch and I had our first conversation right before my flight down to San Francisco for WordCamp 08, and the discussion [...]
January 14, 2010
Mark Johnson: Failing faster
For today and Friday, I’m hanging out at the 2nd annual ICONN conference in Knoxville. ICONN is a “set of individuals, academic programs and professional organizations dedicated connecting student web journalists and campus news websites and to advancing education in web and online journalism” and, from what I know, has a very similar set of [...]
