Posts tagged “open source”
On knowledge
Today I finally did what I should have done a long time ago: I donated to Wikipedia. I strongly believe that all human knowledge should be free. Wikipedia is the leading project to help make human knowledge free and accessible. We still have a lot more human knowledge to unlock, but Wikipedia has been an [...]
Journalism needs a down and dirty revolution
A lot of businesses could benefit from the I like to call the down and dirty principles. Down and dirty says you should never make something that your users don’t care about. Down and dirty means focusing on return on investment. It means admitting that we don’t have unlimited time, money or staff resources. Once we [...]
Subscribe to comments is a must-have feature
Every Web site that allows users to write comments should also have a mechanism to allow users to subscribe to comments. Subscribing to comment is a way of notifying a user when new comments are left, typically via e-mail. This simple feature is a great way to foster deeper conversations and increase page views. It’s [...]
Is your proprietary software better than open source?
That’s a question every news organization should ask itself, whether it be for its main CMS or other Web software. And when I say proprietary, I don’t mean just software built in house but also software provided by vendors. If the answer is no, our proprietary solutions are inferior, than you have some serious soul [...]