If you wanted to build a completely digital student news organization from scratch, how would you do it?
Which beats would you cover right off the bat? Would you cover club sports and campus sustainability, or the common news the student newspaper already covers?
What form would your content take? Would you focus on text, images, audio, [...]
On my argument against College Publisher, and for an open source coalition of student newspapers, Brad Arendt of The Arbiter presents several good points about the advantages of using College Publisher. Considering the time he took writing a well-detailed comment, I thought I would clarify on a several things I think he missed.
First, I think [...]
When you control the platform, you also control the content and innovation associated with it.
In the school news industry, College Publisher, now branded as the College Media Network, desperately needs a competitor. Owned by MTV, a subsidiary of Viacom, College Publisher provides a content management system now used by “550 going on 600″ student newspapers across [...]
Here’s the problem: I, like many people I know, drive too many places all alone in my car. One person in a three ton metal vehicle that could easily transport five. To move all of that mass around, with such unused, waste internal space, is an inefficient use of energy.
Money is made by identifying and [...]
This is the first in what I hope to be a series of articles on applying the concept of “open-source” to a non-profit organization.
A month or so ago, I was hit with the notion that the open-source movement might be applicable to systems beyond software. What I quickly realised, much like when I [...]
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