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Condé Nast buys a WordPress plugin Members Public

Condé Nast buys a WordPress plugin [https://variety.com/2016/digital/news/conde-nast-acquires-poetica-twitter-engineer-1201719426/] > Condé Nast said Poetica’s product, as well as its engineering and design team, will help it “seamlessly and quickly” deliver content to audiences across multiple platforms. The Poetica system will be integrated into Condé Nast’

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Adam Tinworth
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Why your big custom CMS project is doomed Members Public

You have an in-built fatal flaw [http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2015/01/why-its-risky-business-for-publishers-to-build-their-own-cms/] : > News organizations, especially ones with just one medium-sized digital property (this applies to many independent daily newspapers, for example), have a terrible time retaining technical talent. These organizations generally don’t employ more than a

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Adam Tinworth
cms

The New Yorker's WordPress regeneration Members Public

The New Yorker website was not looking healthy this morning: [https://i1.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2014/07/new-yorker.jpg] However, it wasn’t that bad for everyone: > @adders [https://twitter.com/adders] @NewYorker [https://twitter.com/NewYorker] mine looks like this pic.twitter.com/t8YFgsRmJX

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Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

Matt Mullenweg on the third age of WordPress Members Public

[https://i2.wp.com/www.onemanandhisblog.com/content/images/2012/12/matt-mullenweg.jpg] **Matt Mullenweg, Founder, Automattic, **interviewed by Om Malik, Founder & Senior Writer, GigaOM WordPress powers 17% of the top million sites on the web – and that’s a huge responsibility. Matt Mullenweg wants to democratise publishing – but

Adam Tinworth
Adam Tinworth
blog platforms

PubSubHubub: fat pings for publishers Members Public

Here’s an issue many people aren’t aware of: > Does Google Reader really only poll feeds once an hour? bit.ly/RSU9Ia [http://t.co/5btxsxxv] Bit of a fail for use on a news desk if so #journalism [https://twitter.com/search/%23journalism] — John Thompson (@johncthompson) November

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Adam Tinworth
Atom

Cool Content: Anthony Palmer on capturing the Olympic Park Members Public

Anthony Palmer has spent the last few years working for the Olympic Delivery Authority [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Delivery_Authority], capturing and communicating the process of building the Olympic park. He’s going to condense to 20 minutes that took four years to do… In March 2008, the

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Adam Tinworth
cms

Calling a blog a blog Members Public

Andy Boyle [http://www.andymboyle.com/2012/04/02/stop-calling-it-a-blog-please/] : > It’s time to stop bifurcating your content as blogs and news because they run on separate systems. It is all content, so why not call it that? Even if you have outside people writing posts on your website

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Adam Tinworth
Blogging

A Few Slightly Geeky Journo Links Members Public

Time for some links: * One of the most consistent themes I hear when talking to journalists around the country is frustration with the web publishing CMS they have to deal with (especially if they’ve ever used any blog platform). In that light, this post about the BBC’s new

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Adam Tinworth
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