archive/ 2009 March
A Wordpress theme for news
What you see below are my early (very, very early) outlines of a Wordpress theme that I’m working on. After the Revenue Two Point Zero Conference posted the ideas that came out of that I’ve been tossing this idea around in my head for building a better news theme for Wordpress sites.
The screenshots below (click [...]
Furthering development and experimental news sites
Earlier today I posted on Twitter that I was “Wondering why more news orgs. don’t have a preview.example.com domain where they can experiment and gather feedback from users.” While I was largely thinking of professional news outlets like The New York Times or the Washington Post I think the same applies for college news.
I think [...]
The Global Post news model
A few days ago the New York Times posted a piece about a news startup that is garnering some attention for its business model. The company is Global Post and they’re aiming to make global news coverage profitable again by somewhat changing the revenue model.
With 65 correspondents worldwide who make $1000 a month for 4 [...]
News will go on
UC-Berkeley’s School of Journalism recently hosted a panel discussion about the San Francisco Chronicle and it’s future (or some might say, lack thereof). The always pertinent Dave Winer attended and shared his thoughts on his blog today. In a very interesting post he writes that:
I got the floor very briefly, at the end, after Scott [...]
The role of Twitter on campus
Having just finished a post for the CoPress blog about the Whitman Pioneer’s first real foray into covering breaking news on our website I started thinking about what the actual role for Twitter is on a college campus that is largely not using the service. At Whitman there are only a few dozen students that [...]