This post is last in a three-part series on News Mixer — the final project of my masters program for hacker-journalists at the Medill School of Journalism. It’s adapted (more or less verbatim) from my part of our final presentation. Visit our team blog at crunchberry.org to read the story of the project [...]
Also tagged agile, Crunchberry, free and open source software, Medill, News MixerThis post is second in a three-part series on News Mixer — the final project of my masters program for hacker-journalists at the Medill School of Journalism. It’s adapted (more or less verbatim) from my part of our final presentation. Visit our team blog at crunchberry.org to read the story of the project [...]
Also tagged Crunchberry, Facebook Connect, identity, jackassery, Medill, News MixerThis post is first in a three-part series on News Mixer — the final project of my masters program for hacker-journalists at the Medill School of Journalism. It’s adapted (more or less verbatim) from my part of our final presentation. Visit our team blog at crunchberry.org to read the story of the project [...]
Also tagged Apache, Crunchberry, django, free and open source software, LAMP, Linux, Medill, MySQL, News Mixer, PythonThe Crunchberry Project is using agile software development practices as we build a new product for the Cedar Rapids Gazette. On the team blog, I’ve begun writing a series of pieces detailing our process.
Part one was a brief attempt at defining agile and explaining why it’s important:
What can happen in a year? Twitter catches on. [...]
Cedar Rapids, Iowa was hit with one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history this June, when the Cedar River rose past it’s 500-year flood plain to 31.2 feet, flooded 1,300 city blocks, and put most of the downtown area under water.
When we visited the Gazette, Cedar Rapid’s daily paper a few weeks ago, [...]
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