Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog: Update on Emap Inform: it was already free online!
Tuesday, 11 November 2008, 19:23
Our digital boss Conor Dignam: “Some of our older archives remain behind either subs or registration barriers, but they too will go free over time. We’re also moving all Emap Inform brands to a new CMS and redesigning all of the websites."
CNET News: A vignette about Vignette’s reinvention
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 10:24
"Turns out Vignette is still very much in business, and was one of many software companies pitching their products this week here at the Web 2.0 Expo in the Jacob Javits Center. It's certainly a smaller, more humble company. With a market cap a nip over $300 million and about 680 employees, it's still in the content software business, focusing on video and new media technologies."
La Pauline 2.0: The Root E&P’s “Blog-Like Comments”
Sunday, 10 August 2008, 09:37
Ex-E&P web editor Pauline Millard on E&P's new yoof-oriented column with "blog-like comments": "Traffic at E&P isn't going down because the newspaper industry is in a bind. Traffic is going down because their web site lives in a time warp, and someone in the pipeline is too cheap to redesign and upgrade it."
Saturday, 5 July 2008, 10:01
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The BBC, Guardian and New York Times all have landing pages based on specific topics. So does any blog that takes its tagging seriously. An SEO no-brainer. So why doesn’t everybody do it?
Friday, 1 February 2008, 15:48
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Wow. Print-and-online CMS built on in Drupal and integrated with InDesign via linked XML.
Friday, 1 February 2008, 15:37
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"the editor of Schamper, the student newspaper at the University of Gent (Belgium) describes how he — a philosophy major — built a Web-centric content management system that outputs to Adobe InDesign for print, all based on the open-source Drupal CMS fr
Friday, 1 February 2008, 15:09
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"[Teaching Dreamweaver] not very relevant to journalism, , because it does not include a robust content management system! … Focusing on Dreamweaver teaches exactly the wrong mindset for online journalism: that your Web site is mainly an island unto its
Friday, 4 January 2008, 22:14
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Key question: "Is your CMS fit for purpose"?
Wednesday, 2 January 2008, 11:25
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Nik Silver looks at the argument that big publishing could be done with ‘lighweight’ CMSs like Wordpress and asks ‘what has the Guardian’s big CMS ever done for us"? Lots, it seems…
Friday, 21 December 2007, 22:56
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"The internet allows both immediacy and depth. Breaking news does not have to be exploitative or sensationalist. You don’t have to engage in ‘breaking rumour’, as some of my former colleagues at the BBC called it. Credibility is still our greatest asset."
Why can’t a newspaper CMS be as user-friendly as a blog?
Monday, 29 October 2007, 08:00
The much-anticipated Web 2.0 regional news portal in Germany, Der Westen, has gone live.
The front end — full of geotagging and social networking goodness is very nice indeed, but what’s been done under the bonnet that seems to be equally important. The backend of the custom-built CMS, apparently, is very user-friendly — which is important because over 800 print journalists have had to be trained to use it.
Blogger-turned-regional-newspaper-executive Katarina Borchert, who has lead the project for the WAZ group, is on the cover of German journalism mag Medium this month, and has some extremely wise words in the interview:
Ich komme ja aus der Blogwelt und habe much gefragt, warum Redaktionssysteme von Zeitungen im Vergleich zu denen für Blogs so kompliziert sein müssen.
My translation:
Coming from the world of blogs, I asked myself why newspapers’ content management systems have to be so complicated compared to blogs’.
Why indeed. I’ve asked myself the same thing a few times over the last few months.
Friday, 21 September 2007, 15:07
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Johannes Wehner explains how Information.dk built a newspaper web site in Drupal in half a year of fulltime development.
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 15:45
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Some at the Telegraph will be happy to see the old CMS go: "When free blogging software like Wordpress can churn out a site with little or no training people are amazed to find they have to dig around in bare XML to get a news story online." (Amen.)
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 09:37
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"Is your newspaper site a clean-looking, uniform grid of semantic (and validated!) code? Or is it a ‘big ball of mud,’ with includes (scotch tape) and javascript (bubble gum) holding together a jumble of disparate hunks of content?"
