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Re: Scripting News: 10/30/07

mterenzio — Sat, 06 Apr 2019 06:12:17 -0000

I'd be curious as to your choice of Internet Service for the country home. I'm contemplating getting rid of cable, but in the "country" it has been my best option for internet. And since they bundle that with the phone and tv, it has kept me from cutting the cable chord.

Re: MyWord!

mterenzio — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 17:47:09 -0000

I think it even hints at more. Imagine the JSON objects that make up the story aren't even all stored in the same place. A quote object from here. A paragraph from there. All the atoms come together to form an article. THis is something being called "structured journalism" in some circles, which (among other things) deals with breaking down news to an atomic unit smaller than the article, so the pieces can be shared and re-used. Likely ties in with the Sematic Web and linked data.

Re: Something fun I whipped up

mterenzio — Thu, 12 Feb 2015 20:28:36 -0000

This is great. I just think there should be a type:essay element. That way if i want to support something like a block quote in my essay, I can have a subs array like "subs": ["This is a paragraph", {type:quote, "subs": ["this is a quote"]}, "This is another paragraph"] I know, I know. That's just looking for trouble.

Re: What's wrong with surge pricing?

mterenzio — Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:18:46 -0000

In cases where there is an alternative I think they should be able to charge whatever they want. But in the classic example, if someone has the only life saving medicine in town, it's immoral to charge a million dollars. In such a case, the sick person might be morally justified stealing the medicine to save their life.

Re: Washington Post commenter speaks gibberish

mterenzio — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 16:38:07 -0000

Why is this of interest to Poynter? Or to put it another way, in what pretense besides the passage's minimalism in relation to the lean startup methodology and the perceptions of the comment author to modernist forces could you possibly be making a meaningful point?

Re: Bloggers who made a difference

mterenzio — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:06:22 -0000

In my early years of reading blogs, I remember Steve Rubel, Doc Searls, Steve Gillmor, Halley Suitte and Jeff Jarvis. But there were lots of smaller blogs that were just as important to me in those days, many I've forgotten. They were satellites of Scripting News. Blogs like John Tropea's Library Blog, Yabfog, Decafbad. Just a few names that come to mind among others. Some are still around.

Re: A store I'd like someone to operate

mterenzio — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 09:43:56 -0000

What sort of meaningful stuff would I put on a subdomain of a domain that you might eventually let expire? I can't even maintain the domains I own. This sounds like another layer of uncertainty. Unless it was owned by a library or university.

Re: Unoriginal sin

mterenzio — Tue, 26 Aug 2014 15:19:41 -0000

VRM is the ticket. We WANT personalized things and we are willing to give up our data if it benefits us. We only ask for a little transparency on how that data is used and a little control on how we can allow or disallow the vendors from using it.

Re: Recipes for delicious tasting static news apps

mterenzio — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:29:44 -0000

That makes sense and is likely the the way things currently happen. I guess I'm thinking more about a potential future where structured journalism is baked in to the daily workflow of a journalist.

I'm imagining a general purpose system in which a journalist could store atomic units for use and re-use. Take Homicide Watch, where the atomic unit is a homicide, or Rookie, where it is the quote. Circa presumably has a number of general purpose units defined.

A journalist builds this digital reporters notebook and can query it based on the needs of the app. It may not work in practice (I'm on a mission to find out) because each news app might need a different schema, making the whole system unmanageable. Perhaps that is only a result of poor schema creation. Otherwise the Semantic Web couldn't work.

Also, we currently (usually) separate narratives and data-journalism into two parts and sometimes that makes sense. I believe there is more room for intermingling of data and narratives. Automated reporting for sure, but also better definition of of entities within our narratives. We can learn from the semantic web junkies regarding that.

I think you are 100% right about the current state of affairs. I'm wondering about the future. I'm sure I have it wrong, but am equally sure there will be great progress in this area in the coming years.

Lastly, if the Semantic Web did/does work as advertised, I suppose we wouldn't need a database. Just make sure we have the data marked up well and query it later to create more static pages. ; )

Re: Recipes for delicious tasting static news apps

mterenzio — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 17:36:21 -0000

Very interested. I've been mulling around the potential of Mongo/Node API backends and JS client apps. The idea being that once the client app was sufficiently mature, one could execute the magic makeStatic call that would export the relevant data set into json files and cut the tether from the client to the live db. Easier said than done, but seems feasible.

Re: Scripting News: ["Coding", day 2]

mterenzio — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 10:55:58 -0000

Help me out with this one. If I wanted to share one post with Facebook, or anyone, what method do you think would be best? Is it a one item feed? I see a lot of talk about syndicating news units around, more along the lines of an open Storify potential than feed aggregation. Hope that makes sense.

Re: Scripting News: ["Coding", day 2]

mterenzio — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 10:31:42 -0000

One of the most famous uses of the term "Frisco" was right around the same time as Tapestry. https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Re: Building permission structures for short content (Vox edition)

mterenzio — Mon, 19 May 2014 18:38:37 -0000

While the CMS itself is never a savior, it's an important part of being able to store structured data that is searchable and re-usable. I'm willing to bet the CMS of the future looks more like a cross between Circa and Storify than a typical Wordpress install. Thanks to the Knight Prototype Fund, we are doing some early open source testing to see what something like that might look like. If interested in that type of thing, follow along with us at http://fission.io

Re: If my newspaper puts up a metered paywall, how many people will pay? Here’s some data

mterenzio — Thu, 08 May 2014 19:37:58 -0000

That's for a leading performer, but the average on those numbers is actually around 250 subscribers a month , with many doing much less.

Re: Tips for living & working remotely

mterenzio — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 13:19:12 -0000

Not a bad idea. Can't wait till November. ; )

Re: New Knight Prototype Fund winners offer a glimpse of new journalism tools

mterenzio — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:11:26 -0000

Thanks for the mention! Those interested in Project Fission can follow along at http://fission.io

Re: Knight Prototype Fund’s Winners Include Transparency Tools, Open Gov

mterenzio — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:08:11 -0000

Thanks! For those interested, Project Fission, exploring the atomic unit of news, will be happening at http://fission.io

Re: Heroku for Poets beta

mterenzio — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:31:30 -0000

I'm getting request timeouts. http://terenzio.herokuapp.c...

Not sure where to look for problems. After trying the whole a process a few times, I figured it was my Heroku setup, but then I went and tried another Heroku "hello world" and it worked.

http://terenzio2.herokuapp....

Re: Testing Fargo 1.51

mterenzio — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 07:28:46 -0000

Thanks Dave!

Re: Testing Fargo 1.51

mterenzio — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 21:24:41 -0000

On the Linkblogging and the Bookmarklet page instructions it might help some folks to explicitly state to include the filename extension (.opml) It's obvious now but the first try or two I got a message saying "mylinkblog" tab was not open. I said, "sure it is." Looking back at this page gave me the answer.

Re: Internet justice

mterenzio — Tue, 18 Mar 2014 09:30:27 -0000

My take on why the line angered others is this. You don't advocate it, but people that do advocate unfair hiring use points like that to justify their practices. And if we pull back the magnifying glass from the hiring process, the risk of getting a bad hire (for whatever reason) would equalize across all groups. The only defense a company has is to try to strengthen their hiring procedures, but classifying groups is not an effective part of that. You look at the individual and do your best.

Re: Title-less items in my feed

mterenzio — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 19:38:20 -0000

I think categories with domains could be used for this. From the spec: "Processors may establish conventions for the interpretation of categories."

Re: Why blogging is an amateur thing

mterenzio — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 16:21:03 -0000

As you say, expertise comes at all levels. A programmer, for instance, can be an expert at what it is like to be learning a new language. That is a distinction that a more advanced programmer may never be able to get back. Both will have their own audience.

Re: Perfectly targeted ads

mterenzio — Wed, 26 Feb 2014 20:46:06 -0000

While I enthusiastically agree, it raises some profound thoughts. I'm about to make a purchase and the targeting says "wait, here is a better deal" Some days I take it, some days I decline because of some complex relationship like a promise I made or I'm just fickle. But maybe the software senses my blood pressure or brain activity as I'm making the purchase and knows it's a complete long shot that I'll change my decision and the counter offer gets suppressed. I think we have some time before a system is that good at targeting.

Re: A JavaScript programming trick

mterenzio — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 17:05:00 -0000

that makes my head hurt. is it the httpRequest? why can't we just use an old fashioned

for (var i = 0; i < urlArray.length; i++) { . . .

by httpRequest, I'm asking if your solution is to take advantage of the asynchronous nature of Node
I need to work on my node style js tonight