MediaGuardian: US billionaire wins high court order over Wikipedia ‘defamation’
Tuesday, 10 May 2011, 10:19
"Louis Bacon, the founder and chief executive officer of Moore Capital Management, was given permission on Monday to use a UK court order to obtain the information from the US publishers behind Wikipedia, the Denver Post newspaper, and the popular…
HoldtheFrontPage: Welcome to your new-look HoldtheFrontPage
Wednesday, 20 April 2011, 12:58
"The online home of UK regional journalism news and jobs is boasting a brand new look today after the first makeover in its eleven-year history. … The entire archive of 20,000-plus HoldtheFrontPage stories has been migrated across to the new Wor…
New York Times: Blogs Wane as the Young Drift to Sites Like Twitter
Thursday, 24 February 2011, 11:20
"Lee Rainie, director of the Internet and American Life Project, says that blogging is not so much dying as shifting with the times. Entrepreneurs have taken some of the features popularized by blogging and weaved them into other kinds of services…
Hacks/Hackers: MIT project looking for WordPress users to beta test data visualization tools
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:35
"An MIT research project is looking for beta testers for its Knight News Challenge proposal for a WordPress data visualization plugin. Sign up on their blog. As Professor David Karger writes, his team has created a WordPress plugin called Datapress that lets folks WYSIWYG author interactive visualizations of any data without any programming."
Hacks/Hackers: MIT project looking for WordPress users to beta test data visualization tools
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 14:35
"An MIT research project is looking for beta testers for its Knight News Challenge proposal for a WordPress data visualization plugin. Sign up on their blog. As Professor David Karger writes, his team has created a WordPress plugin called Datapress that lets folks WYSIWYG author interactive visualizations of any data without any programming."
Scripting News: New blogging techniques
Friday, 22 October 2010, 10:46
Dave Winer on paragraph-level permalinks and new Wordpress tools to implement them easily.
Business Insider: Forbes Blogs To Get A Big Upgrade, Every Reporter Will Have One
Tuesday, 3 August 2010, 10:51
"every [Forbes] reporter will now be required to have his or her own blog, and that most are starting from scratch."
Journalism.co.uk: Guardian launches WordPress plugin allowing bloggers to republish its content
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 10:18
"The Guardian has launched a new tool to allow bloggers to republish its articles free of charge. The Guardian News Feed plugin works with blogging system WordPress and will allow users to search for and embed whole Guardian articles on their own sites. Adverts will be embedded within the Guardian blog posts hosted on other sites to build a global ad network."
WordPress 3.0: The 5 Most Important New Features
Tuesday, 11 May 2010, 10:29
"With the official release of version 3.0, set to drop this month, [Wordpress] will be much closer, if not well within the territory of a content management system (CMS)."
Google News Blog: Bringing Living Stories to WordPress
Sunday, 2 May 2010, 12:08
"For the last few months we’ve been talking with publishers about ways to make it easier for them to use Living Stories, our experimental format for displaying news coverage, on their own websites. Today we’re releasing a Living Stories plugin and theme for WordPress. Now anyone who publishes through WordPress can use the plugin to organize coverage of an ongoing event on a single dynamic page."
Esquire: The magazine for men who mean business
Saturday, 30 January 2010, 14:04
Big glossy consumer magazine. Website is a Wordpress blog. Very nice.
Press Gazette: Wolverhampton’s Express & Star relaunches website
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 23:34
By the way, it's still built in Wordpress. Who says you need a big expensive CMS: "Express & Star’s owner, Midland News Association, has revamped the site design, enlarging photographs to highlight the work of its photographers and simplifying the page layout – including improving navigation – to make the site more "user-friendly"."
AJ Notebook
Tuesday, 20 October 2009, 15:32
"Design inspiration. Selected by you, curated by the Architects' Journal."
Folio: CMS Primer: Open Source vs. Commercial
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 16:51
"[With] a swirl of commercial staples and innovative open source systems (like Drupal, Joomla!, Alfresco and eZPublish) growing in popularity, how does a publisher looking to overhaul choose the best system?"
