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Django gets pluggable file systems.

Django gets plug­gable file sys­tems. - Color me stoked. I heart Django.

August 9, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Figuring Out News Roles: Philadelphia as Crucible

Fig­ur­ing Out News Roles: Philadel­phia as Cru­cible - Some much needed con­text on the Philly.com and Inquirer split. This follow up actu­ally sounds reasonable… let print be print and online be online. We're doing the same thing at work. But, that said, the ini­tial memo didn't reflect any of what's in the Poyn­ter follow up. I [...]

August 9, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Backwards Reeled The Mind: Inkie Will Print First, Serve Philly.com Later

Back­wards Reeled The Mind: Inkie Will Print First, Serve Philly.com Later - Rel­e­vancy: FAIL. (via Paid​Con​tent.org)

August 8, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

2009 SXSW Interactive Panel Picker - It's the End of Newspapers as We Know It — And We Feel Fine!

2009 SXSW Inter­ac­tive Panel Picker - It’s the End of News­pa­pers as We Know It — And We Feel Fine! - A panel pro­posal Cliff Bar­rett, Maura Chace and Zellyn Hunter pulled together for SXSW '09.

August 8, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Email Q&A with @ajchelps

Email Q&A with @ajchelps - Inter­view with me about some of the Twit­ter stuff we've set up at ajc.com. We found the blog­ger when he Twit­tered about a prob­lem with ajc.com. After fixing the prob­lem he asked to inter­view us…

August 5, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Dissapearance of a financially golden newspaper period

Dis­s­a­pear­ance of a finan­cially golden news­pa­per period - In short, news­pa­pers weren't ter­ri­bly prof­itable until the last quar­ter of the 20th cen­tury. I'm not sure if the argu­ment that owners will retain them for social influ­ence will fly in today's com­pet­i­tive land­scape — we don't make much profit but we can influ­ence society… meh. There are [...]

August 5, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Last Chance for Daily Papers: Close Their Websites

Last Chance for Daily Papers: Close Their Web­sites - I hope this is a joke, or some form of irony. Else it's pure ass-​hattery.

August 5, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

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