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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 ones.
• Primer on how to curate content on the web, instead of just moderating user generated content (tks Megan!)
• Four developers make up 25% of the recently-launched Texas Tribune’s staff. This will be a site to watch for sweet projects. (Related - TexasTribune: Our amazing site developers would want us to add– this site could not have been coded in 3 wks without #django.)
• In the forum, Joe Cefoli explains how display the images for Gazette’s media slider after the Javascript loads. Also, Will asks whether a plugin to manage home page templates would be useful. I think it could, but the news organizations need multiple home page templates to begin with. Andrew points out that the news organizations might be more likely to design different homepage templates if it didn’t require technical expertise to switch them on the fly.
• Shameless self-promotion: CoPress had a pretty terrific write-up of our progress to date on Poynter on Monday, and I had the fortune to join Joe Cefoli of The Fairfield Mirror on a WordPress Tavern podcast this week to talk about their migration and relaunch.

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