Stephanie Romanski

In May of 2009, I wrote about theindependent.com shutting down commenting completely.  I had high hopes that the conversation on our stories could be better handled by taking advantage of ‘Tweet This’ and opening Cover It Live discussions on hot topics, and of course the good old Letters to the Editor.The impetus behind the decision [...]

At The Independent, we’re trying to come up with a breaking news “mobilization” plan to put into place that takes into account our tools (cameras, phones, other recording equipment), our software capabilities and reporter abilities.
What? Why haven’t we done this already?
Well, it’s not like we don’t know how to cover breaking news. We do that [...]

I am hoping for a little help from the cloud here.
We use Yahoo Pipes currently to mashup multiple blog feeds. But getting the mashup to display just a blog title, post title and timestamp is proving to problematic for me. I am either making this harder than it needs to be or I am just [...]