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Articles tagged open source (52)

Missed mobile opportunities, measuring Craigslist’s impact, and bringing an open source philosophy to journalism : all that and more in this month’s roundup of the academic literature.
Pop Up Radio Archive graphic
The Knight News Challenge winners want to help radio producers archive and organize their raw tape with simple web-based software. Andrew Phelps
Busted computer in the desert
Open-source may be hip, but an awful lot of cultural baggage can get in the way of newsrooms adopting it.
Some projects, like DocumentCloud and Ushahidi, were widely adopted in the media. Others stumbled due to technical problems or resistance from partners.
The company laid off engineers working on Ellington, a CMS built on Django. Andrew Phelps
The Knight News Challenge may be shifting gears, but it’s still an important window into where news innovation is taking us.