Developer uses Knight News Challenge grant to encourage citizen publishers
According to Lasica, when he and his partner Marc Canter launched their first citizen media sites two years ago, they had to make several revisions to the Drupal open source content management system to develop “a language that could be understood by regular humans.” Thus, he hopes that his project will help bridge the gap between open source coders and citizen publishers to facilitate the creation of more community news sites.
Lasica plans on including a wide variety of resources in his toolbox, including an “out-of-the-box community publishing solution,” customizable widgets for publishing community news, customizable templates, instant RSS and media RSS feeds, integration with Google Maps, tutorials and screencasts, and a cross-platform multimedia publishing tool.
Although he hopes to encourage citizen publishers, Lasica acknowledges the benefits that professional news organizations could reap from his and similar efforts. For example, Morris Communications, which runs the citizen media site BlufftonToday, and six radio stations will be sharing newly developed codes with the Drupal community. “Any news organization that cares about where their marketplace is heading should closely observe—and probably work with—Web 2.0 pioneers,” says Lasica of the importance of news organizations’ collaboration with citizen media.
Source: Poynter Online
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hello, can someone here be kind and make those pict/illustrations visible here?
john lennon
It is interesting to see
Moslems presenting them self’s
with total discard for property
and human life who needs it.
I think people who are unable
to cope in a free society should
be deported to a country of there choice
they just don’t understand the workings
of a free society and, they are in this situation because Allah is punishing them and they don’t even know it -
I have read Koran and there is nothing
in it that promotes these kinds of ignorant
behavior the problem is that this is not
a religious movement but a poetical undertaking and the people are used as pawns-
will they ever wake up only God knows?
As for the cartoons I would like to see them
freely published and discussed in more papers and the net .-------- bob knab
I have questions for Muslims who protests against the drawings: Did Prophet Mohamed used violence against those who challenged his philosophy or insulted him while preaching Islam?
If the answer is yes then they can do what they are doing. If the answer is no then they should stop curbing freedom of the press.
I have questions for Muslims who protests against the drawings: Did Prophet Mohamed used violence against those who challenged his philosophy or insulted him while preaching Islam?
When this issue was going on a Muslim pinter M.F.Hissain from India painted Hindu gods in nude hurting the sentiments of Hindu community
None of the Muslims went to his home did any damage or condmned the issue
Then they do not have any right to talk on this issue.IF Hussain had the anartistic mind the same goes with the other cartoonist also who drew Prophet
Over all what i feel is certain sectors of the people who struggle for their identity will go like this kind protests
re: "USA: only student publications etc."
Correct. The most high-profile case of this to my knowledge which you might wish to acknowledge by name along with some of the others was Havard University produced "The Harvard Salient".
For a take on the potential implications of this see:
http://danielmarkharrison.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/02/all_the_news_th.html