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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 the discussion around tailgating policy at Central Michigan University.
• Max Cutler is “looking for good examples of sports coverage on college news sites.” Screenshots of the best would make a really good blog post.
• Nameless CMS is running on FIUSM.com, but the public release probably won’t be announced until after the launch of Rails 3.
• The end of objectivity – web 2.0 version – Journalistic objectivity is a phantom. WaPo’s social media policy proves it. (tks Brian Manzullo)
• The Daily Trojan at USC relaunched on WordPress recently and has recommendation functionality that might be worth emulating.
• On September 25, Emily Babay mentioned that the new Daily Pennsylvanian site is almost ready to go.
• Re-Tweet This: ‘Austin American-Statesman’ Tries to Make Money on Twitter – The cost is $150 per ad and they must be “actionable,” or offer discounts, coupons, etc.

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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 a RoR developer, he’s looking for people to collaborate with too.

Host: Adam Hemphill

Guests: Anthony Pesce, Miles Skorpen, Joseph Agreda, Max Cutler, Justin Myers, Rick Martinez, David Estes

Summary: Excerpts from a roundtable discussion among student developers from across the country regarding Django-based content management systems (and a Ruby On Rails system from FIUSM). The entire conversation is available as a MP3 download.

Links:

• Populous Project
• Ochs
• Nameless CMS
• The Maneater
• Gazjango

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Host(s): Bryan Murley, Daniel Bachhuber

Guest(s): Rick Martinez

Summary: A discussion about the development of FIUSM.com‘s content management system built on Ruby on Rails, Nameless CMS.

Links

• FIUSM.com
• Ruby on Rails
• Nameless CMS

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Scott Karp of Publish2 on link journalism and how it might apply to student media.

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