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This is a very cool prototype, and I especially like the idea of calling it a "journalism IDE" (as opposed to a CMS). At work (http://cafe.com http://cafe.com)
by morgante 12y ago
This is a very cool prototype, and I especially like the idea of calling it a "journalism IDE" (as opposed to a CMS).
At work (http://cafe.com http://cafe.com), I've actually been working on something similar with our CMS (Monsoon). We're trying to use technology to make telling cohesive online narratives a lot easier.
Interestingly, one of the biggest hurdles so far has been in decomposing stories. Media traditionally treats each story as a big blob of text (in most cases, HTML), but we're trying to change that so that each story is actually just an arrangement of smaller tidbits (we call them droplets). Switching to that model helps us to encode a lot more semantic information, and also to reflow stories effectively for context.
We're not yet to the point where we integrate/suggest droplets from other stories automatically, but that's definitely the goal. Maybe we could integrate something like Newsclip.se to encourage that.
(PS. If you want to help us get there, we're hiring: http://cafe.com/careers http://cafe.com/careers)
- div 12y agoI agree that it's a cool idea ! It may be nitpicky, but I had the opposite reaction to calling it a journalism IDE. It just seems as if the intended audience wouldn't have the faintest idea what an IDE is.
- morgante 12y agoSo, I think it's a question of who you're marketing to. I'd never call this an IDE to the journalists themselves, but calling it a "journalism IDE" is a great way to recruit developers/technologists—which is actually a big challenge (in my experience, most great developers don't want to touch anything close to content, probably due to latent association with the abomination that is WordPress).