http://www.maxcutler.com/2009/08/12/portland-courant-news-short-urls WebDev, Tech, and Life Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:00:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.maxcutler.com/2009/08/12/portland-courant-news-short-urls/comment-page-1#comment-49 Keeping Courant with Annie Le Coverage | CoPress Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:20:50 +0000 http://maxcutler.com/blog/?p=156#comment-49 [...] Courant News included new email and analytics tracking systems, which allowed us to push breaking news updates to our email subscribers and track [...] […] Courant News included new email and analytics tracking systems, which allowed us to push breaking news updates to our email subscribers and track […]

]]> http://www.maxcutler.com/2009/08/12/portland-courant-news-short-urls/comment-page-1#comment-48 Mid-August Edit Flow update: Email notifications and editorial comments at Inside CoPress Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:10:22 +0000 http://maxcutler.com/blog/?p=156#comment-48 [...] In my mind, that’s exactly what we want out of the intersection of workflows and notifications. The workflow concept of Edit Flow is based around the idea that there are two or more people that have to work together in unison to get a piece of content published. The statuses serve as the steps along the way, which don’t necessarily have to happen in order or chronologically, and notifications happen at each point where an action is taken within the system. Max and I mapped it out a bit when he came down from Seattle: [...] […] In my mind, that’s exactly what we want out of the intersection of workflows and notifications. The workflow concept of Edit Flow is based around the idea that there are two or more people that have to work together in unison to get a piece of content published. The statuses serve as the steps along the way, which don’t necessarily have to happen in order or chronologically, and notifications happen at each point where an action is taken within the system. Max and I mapped it out a bit when he came down from Seattle: […]

]]> http://www.maxcutler.com/2009/08/12/portland-courant-news-short-urls/comment-page-1#comment-47 Preparation for the Fall | CoPress Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:31:33 +0000 http://maxcutler.com/blog/?p=156#comment-47 [...] In the past week, Twitter as all about Facebook, FriendFeed, and tr.im. Jeffery Zeldman, a notable designer, has taken the approach of not using any third-party URL shorteners and instead runs all of his posts off his own domain with a WordPress plugin called, you guessed it, “Short URL plugin.” If your domain is short enough that this makes sense, it would probably be a worthwhile approach that would help avoid link rot. On a related note, Max Cutler and David Estes came down to Portland last weekend. One of the projects that actually came to life was a URL shortener app for Courant News. [...] […] In the past week, Twitter as all about Facebook, FriendFeed, and tr.im. Jeffery Zeldman, a notable designer, has taken the approach of not using any third-party URL shorteners and instead runs all of his posts off his own domain with a WordPress plugin called, you guessed it, “Short URL plugin.” If your domain is short enough that this makes sense, it would probably be a worthwhile approach that would help avoid link rot. On a related note, Max Cutler and David Estes came down to Portland last weekend. One of the projects that actually came to life was a URL shortener app for Courant News. […]

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