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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 ...
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...
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.
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...

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I'm a multi-platform journalist just back from China. I've worked at a daily newspaper in Southern California and freelanced for magazines. Over the past year, I've taught myself to shoot video, build interactive maps, blog and put together audio slideshows.
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Chris Amico

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 6:05pm —

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 6:20pm —

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 10:50am —

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 2:30pm — 7 Comments

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