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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 [...]

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 [...]

A few days back, Max Cutler posted a hefty spec for the administration side of Courant News, code named “Nando.” I’ve finally had the time to start reading through it and boy am I impressed. Most notable thus far are: the pitch system, a genuine workflow based around statuses and user roles, and a heavily [...]

Two big milestones over the weekend for newspapers interested in switching from College Publisher to WordPress: William P. Davis of The Maine Campus published an extensive post on how he migrated his database, and John Luetke has released a CP Import WordPress plugin.

Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup): So Long Sections? – Joey sez: Amen brother! I’ve been saying this for years: drop the damn confusing, non-made-for-web nav bars on newspaper sites in favor of a web-first methodology. Last minute summer [...]

Hosts: Daniel Bachhuber and Joey Baker Guests: Jake Paul, Melinda Bardon, and David Estes Summary: Tuesday’s conversation was all about summer projects. We heard about The Eagle Online‘s plans to move to Expression Engine, Melinda Bardon’s community news website startup based on Dot Net Nuke, and David Estes’ thoughts on a possibly open source iPhone [...]

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We’re changing things up! Our choice of the best links of the week are now at the top of We Clicked On (via the CoPress Publish2 Newsgroup): Owned? Legal terms of video hosting services compared – Joey Baker: Video sharing sites treat your copyright differently. Summary: the best sites are the most restrictive. 4 productive [...]

Mark Briggs at Serra Media is taking a forward-looking approach to finding summer interns: have them pitch their projects. From the announcement: Instead of a specific, rigid framework of duties, tasks, hours and pay that you try to ply yourself into, we’re inviting you to make a pitch on the assignment as if you were [...]

Rick Martinez’s “Summer of Code” plans for Nameless CMS, a Ruby on Rails option that is on its way to becoming open source, include writing a Ruby library for creating and working with InCopy files, an overhaul of the admin to incorporate workflow features, and an alpha release for people to play with. If you’re [...]