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NICAR 2010 talk: Good habits

This is a script for a talk I’ll be delivering shortly, with Jacob Fenton’s assistance, at NICAR 2010 in Phoenix. Readers may find it similar to, though more complete than, my ONA talk, a few posts back. Consider this version better.
For more frequent updates on what I’m up to, visit the News Apps Blog.
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ONA09 un-conference session proposal: The craft of making software — Anyone interested?

UPDATE — The folks at ONA have announced that they’ll provide rooms for un-conference talks! Woot! But if there’s more need than space, it’ll be up to a vote, so *please* get there early and vote me up! Hope to see you there!
The schedule for ONA09 is jam-packed with shiny stuff — social networks, mobile [...]

How we built News Mixer, part 3: our agile process

This post is last in a three-part series on News Mixer — the final project of my masters program for hacker-journalists at the Medill School of Journalism. It’s adapted (more or less verbatim) from my part of our final presentation. Visit our team blog at crunchberry.org to read the story of the project [...]

Building a news product with agile practices: How we’re doing it

The Crunchberry Project is using agile software development practices as we build a new product for the Cedar Rapids Gazette.  On the team blog, I’ve begun writing a series of pieces detailing our process.
Part one was a brief attempt at defining agile and explaining why it’s important:
What can happen in a year?  Twitter catches on.  [...]

Can old media get agile?

Signal vs. Noise sez:
We stalled launching our Job Board for a while because we felt we had bigger fish to fry. Once we got around to it, we couldn’t believe we had waited so long. It was easy to set up, a great resource for our community, and has generated lots of cash for the [...]