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Re: Jay and Dave ride again! (Scripting News)

Daniel Bachhuber — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 23:37:24 -0000

Any chance we could get an RSS feed with just the podcast as an enclosure? I'd like to subscribe to it in iTunes. Thanks!

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:10:09 -0000

Does this method kill your Visual Voicemail though? Also, what's the link to the site you're referring to?

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:13:14 -0000

Did a bit of testing on my own. This method unlocks tethering but, for me at least, it breaks Visual Voicemail (or at least I have no indicator of new voicemail). It also, and this is a super huge quirk, doesn't let anyone ring my number when tethering is active. I tried calling my number and got a "your call cannot be completed as dialed".

Comment left via tethering :)

Re: Okay I'm trying iPhone tethering (Scripting News)

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:21:45 -0000

Yeah, it should be "This SOB is illegally tethering his iPhone." I'd bet that there's another half to the equation of getting this to work well on AT&T's end.

Re: The Weekly Enema Volume 2, Issue 3!

Daniel Bachhuber — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:17:04 -0000

It looks pretty sweet. I think offering the option of downloading the PDF would be smart too.

Re: Which CMS do they use in online journalism utopia?

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:59:10 -0000

[crickets, crickets]

I think Ellington needs an open-source competitor for there even to be a discussion.

Re: The only profession?

Daniel Bachhuber — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:12:48 -0000

Thanks for putting this together. This will be my go-to link for whenever someone tries to use that argument.

Re: How is inertia preventing your operation from changing

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:50:16 -0000

I take it you're for reforming the institution instead of starting afresh?

Re: 1-2 percent won't buy you much

Daniel Bachhuber — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:32:45 -0000

Are those advertising numbers at the top based on revenues from College Publisher, or newspapers who are selling their own advertising? Because we all know how bad the revenue is from College Publisher...

IMHO, I think the "paper" should experiment with going online only. It's the "oh we don't have to worry about this right now" type of thinking that got the regional and national papers in the trouble they're in today.

Re: College Publisher's response

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 01 May 2009 11:13:46 -0000

First off, it's my prerogative to say this is one of the most wrong, idiotic, and misleading posts I've ever read, and you've done the community a tremendous disservice by writing it. In interest of full disclosure, I'm the Executive Director of CoPress, a project I started because College Publisher was so painful and inhibiting to use. I'll be writing a longer post in response to this, but have several other things to do today so I'm not sure when I'll be able to get to it.

To address your first point in which you claim that "rather than building a CMS", student innovators should build up traffic with content and "multi-media packages," I'm not quite sure where you got the notion that we were advocating for building a CMS. There are many upon many open source CMS options out there that will do the job. In fact, the Knight Foundation has funded one and my friend Max has built another one. What's missing in this equation is that most, if not nearly all, student newspapers don't have the capacity to deploy and maintain these CMSes. I'm not going to name blame for the past, but this is largely due to the mindset of "we don't want our web product to devalue the print product, so we aren't going to put any resources towards it." A print analogy: your web tech talent is now as important, if not more, than your production staff. When companies like College Media Network make statements like "college newspapers are in the news business, not the web business", you're doing a disservice to the entire sector.

Yet you go on to argue that student news organizations shouldn't control their top advertising slots because they might have to hire additional staff to sell those ads. Again, this smokescreen is a disservice to the community. You then say that newspapers, to reclaim this lost revenue, should "build components to supplement the online edition’s offering" which, to me, sounds like a lot more effort than just managing your CMS.

I'd like to suggest an alternative for College Publisher. Instead of using monopolistic weight to force student newspapers into using crappy, closed software, why not provide them with open source software and teach them how to truly innovate?

Re: Running ads on the front page

Daniel Bachhuber — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:14:04 -0000

My opinion is that the ads on the front page of a newspaper would hurt the newspaper's brand. I understand the need to innovate, but this isn't innovating in the right direction, in my opinion. The innovation that should be happening is providing more value to the readers, not making them comment on what placement of advertisements on the front page of a newspaper mean for the newspaper's financial viability. Some would, I fear, call this into question, and I think this type of discussion would harm the newspaper's brand.

Re: Redesigns for the new year: WKU, Pitt, ACC

Daniel Bachhuber — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:26:37 -0000

Are you sure the Pitt News is built from the ground up? It looks awfully like Drupal....

Re: CMS: pre-made or roll your own?

Daniel Bachhuber — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:09:41 -0000

A few points I'd like to make:
<ol>
<li>For most student newspapers, it would be a terrible idea to build a CMS. There are several options out there that fit 95% of the needs and most student newspapers won't have the consistent tech talent they need to maintain the CMS. Even the Stanford Daily migrated to WordPress after a few years with a home-built CMS.</li>

<li>If I'm not mistaken, The Communicator website are manually updated HTML files. A "content management system" generally stores content in a database, among other improvements. It's even worse of an idea to try to run an entire news website off manually updated HTML files than it is to build your own CMS.</li>
<li>Considering all of the conversations we had in the last year about building CMSes vs. collaborating on code, why no links?</li>
</ol>

Re: CMS: pre-made or roll your own?

Daniel Bachhuber — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:38:49 -0000

Hey Madison,
My apologies if my first comment came off a bit troll-ish and negative. It wasn't intended as a snipe towards your website and the work you've done, but rather a small bit of frustration with Bryan re: running a post that questions whether a student newspaper should build a CMS or not. We've been talking (i.e. Bryan, I, and a few others) for the last year or so about this question and the focus of our efforts now are to consolidate student newspaper efforts around one or two open source CMSes (like Max's or Rick's). Building a website in static HTML vs. having your content in a content management system is an entirely separate question that I'd be happy to talk with you further about if you'd like. I think there's a bit of miscommunication happening in the comments.

Thanks,

Daniel

Re: Redesigns for the new year: WKU, Pitt, ACC

Daniel Bachhuber — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:47:55 -0000

Ditto what Bryan said. The theme looks beautiful; I just looked at the source code when the post said it was a custom CMS.

Re: 2007/07/27/gtd-ninja/

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:33:27 -0000

What about Remember the Milk?!

Re: College media needs CMS options

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:27:49 -0000

I think I'm on the same page as Kevin. The largest constraint to innovation at the moment is the platform, not hosting. Bryan, you might be referring to something else, but you can get hosting for under $5/month. Maintenance is another issue, but that's hopefully where the eco-system would come in.

I'm very interested to see where the UCLA project is at. They do have a significant amount of money to work with, but building an entire CMS (that works better than the other options) over the summer would be a commendable task.

Another argument I've heard for College Publisher has to do with their advertising network. This can't be terribly difficult to set up, though, and there are ad networks out there that I'm sure would love to have placements on student newspaper websites.

Re: Win a HP HDX Dragon 20inch notebook; name your top five digital lifestyle products and services

Daniel Bachhuber — Sun, 18 May 2008 13:08:35 -0000

1. iPhone
2. Last.fm
3. Podcasting
4. Google Reader for the iPhone
5. Twitter

The ultimate news-consuming machine

Re: Don’t Let Academia Advise You On Your Future

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:37:27 -0000

"There is no counsel that accepts and rejects ideas."

There's one in my town :) It's called the Portland Ten and, on a parallel road, I can totally see Force For The Future as a catalyst for intensive mentoring and growth.

Re: Journalism and Media: Let’s Discuss Changes at BarCampPortland

Daniel Bachhuber — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:38:55 -0000

I'm down. My perspective on the industry, however, is that the time might be better spent talking about what journalism means to the City of Portland and how startups could fill the void when The Oregonian cuts staff to a skeleton crew or goes bankrupt. This discussion really should've been happening five years ago; I'm long journalism but short newspapers. Let's talk about reinventing journalism instead.

Re: Journalism and Media: Let’s Discuss Changes at BarCampPortland

Daniel Bachhuber — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:37:41 -0000

More thoughts on what I think should be discussed here.

Re: More ways to make open data sexy: 5 Municipal Apps I’d love to see (what are yours?)

Daniel Bachhuber — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:37:10 -0000

I'm not sure how happy the landlords would be about this, but I've always thought it would be cool to crowdsource rental prices, amenities, etc. for a given community. I just moved back down to school where Craiglist (i.e. the antithesis of structured data) is the default method for finding housing. It would be really sweet to have an application where renters could self-report the prices they paid during the school year (as well as report number of rooms, when they had ant infestations, etc.) such that I as a renter had a database of structured information from which to make a decision. Using heatmaps would be a good way to visualize the price of housing in relationship to geography.

Re: Demolishing Lomborg's Cool It

Daniel Bachhuber — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:59:45 -0000

I'd have to say I agree with JL.

And Treehugger, you have way too many ads on your site. Way, way too many.

Re: Verdant Vocations: A Dentist?

Daniel Bachhuber — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:19:57 -0000

Although "eco-friendly" dentistry sounds like a marketing ploy in any case, I do think every medical practise should have environmentally sensitive policies. A couple you might have missed:

<ol><li>Solar energy: making use of the incredible real estate on the roof to take the office off the grid.</li>
<li>Conserving water: reminding patients to turn off the tap when they are brushing their teeth.</li>
</ol>

Kudos to the idea of informing patients of the nearest public transport method.

I've passed this article on to my father. ;)