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Innovation outside journalism that we should bring in

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Chris Amico replied to Saleem Khan's discussion 'Innovation outside journalism that we should bring in'
@Saleem, Good question on awareness. I don't know. I think a lot of people see it, but I'd guess far fewer study it. Another thing I'll say about Sunlight (both the main foundation and the Labs): They seem to have committed to the idea that info...
August 23
Chris Amico replied to Saleem Khan's discussion 'Innovation outside journalism that we should bring in'
A couple from the Sunlight Foundation (which, I should say, does partner with news organizations): - The influence of foreign lobbyists: This is a partnership with ProPublica. They built an app to track lobbying on behalf of foreign governments, ...
August 22
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Content management systems
A group to discuss Web site content management systems from Ellington to Drupal to College Publisher to Expression Engine to Town News and everything else. What do you use? How is it working out for you? What would be your ideal CMS?
August 18
Greg Linch commented on Chris Amico's blog post 'More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers.'
I understand why the XML import sounds so attractive to many college news orgs, but I think it represents a step backwards. I don't think college media should be shoveling (automatically or manually) your print edition online. Ideally,I think the ...
May 11
David Molloy commented on Chris Amico's blog post 'More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers.'
The single greatest advantage of Drupal at the moment is that there are efforts being made to integrate it with InDesign's XML abilities, as noted above. The downside is it's highly technical. ExpressionEngine is another promising route which is a...
May 11
Chris Amico commented on Chris Amico's blog post 'More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers.'
Greg, you guys did well with Wordpress all around. I'm looking forward to seeing what the Daily Tar Heel does, too. I think the lesson still stands: Building on an open source platform will get you farther for cheaper than a proprietary CMS.
May 8
Greg Linch commented on Chris Amico's blog post 'More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers.'
The e-mail notice for the latest comment reminded me about this post. As a follow-up, The Hurricane ended up using WordPress and it's been very successful. There has been some more Drupal news in the college realm in the past year, with orgs such...
May 8

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At 12:46pm on September 24, 2009, Greg Linch said…
Randomly found my way to your page today and saw both our profiles use "at heart." (Looks left. Looks right. Walks away.)

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I chart the day's news in documents and data. I use Django to build frameworks for reporting. I'm a China-watcher on the side (and founder of DalianDalian.com).
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Tools for News, one week in

A week ago, I opened up Tools for News, my Django-powered database of software and web applications journalists* can use to make our lives easier and do our jobs better.

The site is pretty simple (and if I can make it more so, I will): Browse through the categories and look for what you're trying to do. Find what you need. Go use it. If you get stuck on the site looking for something and can't find it, I did something wrong (… Continue

Posted on January 5, 2009 at 9:05pm —

Chris Amico

There must be a better way

I've been pouring over government budgets today, trying to find something interesting in the California Department of Justice outlays in the May Revise. Thrilling stuff.

Part of what makes this so mind-numbing is the way information is packaged. Nearly everything is in PDFs. So when I'm trying to crunch numbers, the fastest way I found to do it is

  1. Copy and paste a long list of line items into a plain text editor

  2. manually turn that into a CSV, using find/replace to cut out comm

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Posted on May 15, 2008 at 9:20pm —

Chris Amico

Future Newsrooms, sort of

I was at the Future of Newsrooms panel in Berkeley the other night and noticed a couple other people from this group in the audience. Love to hear reactions from anyone else who went.

Here's the description:

Everyone is talking about the future of the newsroom in this new digital world where young people get their news from YouTube and Facebook, and traditional print journalists have seen hundreds of their breth
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Posted on February 22, 2008 at 1:50pm —

Chris Amico

More Newspapers need Drupal. And Drupal needs more newspapers.

Cross-posted in part from Eyes East



This might sound odd coming from someone learning Django, but bear with me. Kevin Anderson of Strange Attractor posed an interesting question the other day:



I hav
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Posted on February 7, 2008 at 5:30pm — 5 Comments

 
 

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