CoPress

CoPress ended in the same way it started: a conference call. Wednesday evening, roughly 20 people joined us on a final debrief call as we explained our decision to terminate operations. Full audio of the hour-long call can be heard below. During the debrief, each team member wrapped up a significant takeaway that they’ve gained [...]

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After over a year of offering a unique approach to hosting and support for student news organizations, the CoPress team has decided to close down its operations. The decision to do so has been tremendously difficult, but we’ve come to realize that now is the best time for this to happen. First, we’ve struggled with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s been a couple of weeks since our last link roundup, but that doesn’t mean there’s been any shortage of news. Among all of the announcements made by Google this week, Living Stories struck me as by far the most interesting. This has serious implications the near future of news. Why? Because it’s experimenting with [...]

Recommended links for the weekend: What’s coming down the pike for Courier - New features in short order: ability to map Courier users to WordPress users, queuing support, and statistics on subscriber base changes. A brand new, Django-powered Harvard Crimson launched on 11/10/09 at 8:07 pm. In a stroke of amazing luck, Scott Bressler has a [...]

Recommended links for the weekend: A course idea pitched to the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University: a journalism entrepreneurship class with a twist. The school would create a corporation that invested in the student’s projects in exchange for 70% ownership. They’d help incubate the business with the eventual goal of selling the successful [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]