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Recommended links for the weekend: According to Mathew Ingram, Communities Editor for The Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto, there are things commenters can actually be useful for: fact-checking, new angles to stories, and market research. “The surest way to improve the tone of the debate in forums or comments is to get involved in them.” [...]

Recommended distractions for a Sunday of homework for those of you already back in school: The Center for Innovation in College Media is now accepting applicants for their fall internship. We’ve worked extensively with Bryan Murley, one of CICM’s directors, and can assure those considering the position that you’ll learn a tremendous amount. The work [...]

Recommended links for the long weekend: Make sure your WordPress site is up to date with 2.8.4, the most recent version. Yesterday afternoon, Lorelle, a significant voice in the WordPress community, reported that older versions were under attack. There are two reported signatures of a hacked blog: funky permalinks including the keywords “eval” or “base64_decode,” [...]

Recommended links for the weekend: The New York Times is leveraging the communication skills of their journalists in an entirely new way: by having them teach. It’s a first-time experiment for the publication that hints at the importance of area expertise for the 21st century journalist. (tks Brian Manzullo) Need ideas for reinventing your J [...]

Recommended links for the weekend: It’s the season of new sites. On Wednesday, we helped Brian Manzullo take the new CM Life live. He has since written a thoughtful post to the community, as well as a more detailed post about the new features of the site. Late last night, a new, more Drupally Daily [...]

We announced the first iteration of our turnkey hosting solution last December, and launched our first client by the end of January 2009. Now we’re announcing round two. We call it Managed Hosting. The first version of our strategic development roadmap [PDF], a fancy name for a document with big ideas for the future of [...]

The best links of the last two weeks (I’ll do this on a weekly basis beginning next week, I swear) via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup that you’re more than welcome to join: Rob Curley at the Las Vegas is looking for fall interns that know the latest and greatest of the web and can “write their [...]

The best links of the past two weeks (yes, I missed last week) that you probably should read over the weekend (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup which you can join and contribute to if you’d like): Needed: Real-Time Auction System for Citizen Media – An idea for a better way of compensating the “citizen journalists” [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]