This is really awesome news. It’s about time some school acknowledged the need for these types of people. Way to go, Medill! Visit site »
The real implications of this probably have to do with advertising in feeds, but I’m personally more interested in the fact that this probably means I’ll be able to track my feed stats in Analytics. Sweet. Visit site »
Adrian on his big grant, and what he’ll be doing with it. The project is called EveryBlock, and he will be leaving The Washington Post in order to make it happen. Awesome news. Congrats, Adrian! Visit site »
Django creator and web-based journalist Adrian Holovaty won a $1.1 million grant to “create, test and release open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block.” If you’ve seen Adrian’s chicagocrime.org, you know the power of this sort of thing. I expect great things. Congrats, Adrian! Visit site »
…and this page proves it. Visit site »
TIME says: “Al Gore has fallen out of love with politics. But friends, moneymen and an army of green activists are begging him to run.” A really compelling piece on the former Vice President who both won and lost the election in 2000. Good stuff.
By the way, TIME is one of the few news websites whose design makes me really enjoy reading it. Clean, crisp, bright, simple, elegant. I like it. Of course, I would like to get in and put “Helvetica Neue” before Arial in their stylesheets… :) Visit site »
I was actually in the process of writing almost this exact same blog entry when Jacob’s post showed up in my feed reader. Frustrating! Not entirely unexpected, though, as he and I were just talking at lunch yesterday about how rich the pool of pluggable apps for DJango is becoming.
Jacob mentions django-openid, django-voting, django-tagging, and django-registration. I’d add django-discussion to the list. And don’t forget that Django already includes app for admin interfaces, comments, feeds, and more. It’s becoming a “just bring your own data model” situation.
Seriously, if you can write a model for some type of data (which takes a max of like 30 minutes for things likes blog posts, bookmarks, photos, recipes, reviews, whatever), and then pull in third party apps to let users register and sign in via OpenID, and then more third-party app to tag, vote on, and discuss your data — haven’t you pretty much covered what 90% of the web apps in the world do? Visit site »