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Why I left news – Sticky Valentines
… “This is the real reason why I left news: I finally came to accept that the vanity of a byline was keeping me in a job that left me physically and emotionally exhausted, yet supremely unsatisfied.” …
Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly
Project Argo, meet Project Largo: Open source code finds new use in the sites of nonprofit news orgs » Nieman Journalism Lab
Project Argo was a project at NPR, funded by the Knight Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to build topic-based verticals at member stations around the country. Those 12 beat blogs — on immigration in California, higher education in Minnesota, oceans and climate in Boston — were built on a set of WordPress-based tools built under the Argo banner.
Argo’s funding ended after two years (most of the blogs live on), but what lived on technologically speaking were those tools — themes, plugins, and lessons. The code lives on GitHub, but as many open source projects have discovered, the fact that code exists in the open is no guarantee that it will ever be used.
Enter Largo, which (loosely) stands for “longform Argo.” Largo was begun by INN in hopes of repurposing what Argo built for iterative blogging for a more traditional news site. Adam Schweigert, INN’s director of technology, was the lead developer on the Largo Project — or as he put it, the man in charge of asking the question, “What should nonprofit investigative news organizations look like on the web?” Most of INN’s members are small shops without much in the way of either tech capacity or excess budget.
On the National Security Beat: Journalism schools experiment with drones as newsgathering tools, but worry about privacy
By ELLEN SHEARER
Medill National Security Journalism InitiativeThe use of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, for commercial and law enforcement use in the United States is under increased scrutiny as the Federal Aviation Administration moves forward on implementing laws to regulate…
Hitler Gets Angry When Live Shot Fails
Google Drive now lets developers share hosted websites by storing HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files - The Next Web
Google on Tuesday announced that it will allow Web developers to share hosted websites via Google Drive. All you have to do is store your HTML, JavaScript, and CSS files, and then share a link to your starting HTML file.
In fact, Google is eating its own dog food by hosting the instructions on how to do this yourself, on Google Drive.
Here’s what you have to do:
- Create a new folder in Drive and share it as “Public on the web.”
- Upload your HTML, JS & CSS files to this folder.
- Open the HTML file & you will see “Preview” button in the toolbar.
- Share the URL that looks like www.googledrive.com/host/… from the preview window and anyone can view your web page.
Instagram for Business: Introducing Your Instagram Feed on the Web
We’re excited to announce the ability to view and engage with your Instagram Feed on the web! I would encourage you to read the blog post below from our co-founder, Kevin Systrom, and to visit instagram.com today to try it out!
Today, I’m very excited to announce the…
And speaking of photos…
