There some modest rethinking of the desktop here as well, but not a radical enough departure. I think fundamentally the environment and not just the input need to evolve. The use of single-dimension windowing seems like a stop-gap to support the gestures and input and not truly in service to the benefits of 10-finger touch support. Love the work, excited to see where it goes.

This is the foundation of our freedoms, see our Founding Fathers…they were douche bags. They were the outcasts. Just because you’re speech is accepted today doesn’t mean it will be tomorrow or when you’re 80 - but it doesn’t matter. You’re free to be the douche bag you want to be, period.

I learned an amazing story in college. One of the defense attorney’s for John Gacey was a relative to a criminal justice classmate. She invited the two attorneys to campus to speak as well as the lead detective who tracked and lead in prosecuting Gacey. The defense team were asked repeatedly why they defended a man that they knew in their hearts was guilty. Their response will last with me forever - because if that monster, that despicable man could get a fair trial then it means anyone can. Their sole goal was to ensure he was tried according to the law, because it matters. The system works if we can prosecute monsters and saints in the same manner. Their ultimate claim was that he was not prosecuted fairly, and other can argue the merits of that.

Both side need to embrace this sign, to live it. It means we can go through a transition every 2, 4, 8, however many years peacefully and continue moving forward. Because today you’re on top of the world - tomorrow you could very easily be the douche bag.

Follow-up:

Hilarious.

What we put together was a news-delivery platform built on WordPress, using off-the-shelf tools and plugins and a lot creative customizations. Our initial investment in ‘getting it right’ for the Knoxville/Pella station has already paid dividends as we work to roll out the Washington station site in the coming weeks. The goal was a design reminiscent of the old site but flexible and adaptive enough to grow with the content and news needs of users going forward. Another big requirement was that staff could feel empowered to make changes and own the content, which to-date has been quite successful. WordPress provide great tools for content creators to author, edit and manage their work.

M&H has a team of reporters gathering local news for on-air broadcast but they also capture audio and video for on-web publishing. This reporting is essential in smaller, more rural markets that typically have weekly or semi-daily papers and fall under the radar of local television broadcast news. The reporting M&H are doing is consistently half a day or more ahead of local television, and their devoted web readers show that they are the primary news-source for these areas. needless to say it’s thrill to be part of something that people use and rely on, particularly for the community I grew up in.

Here are some highlights:
• Used a selection of Fugue icons with some of my own thrown in as well
• A fair bit of jquery behind the scenes and a few UI touches
• Yahoo! Pipes to created aggregated and multi-tag/multi-category RSS feeds
• PHP5 DOM screen scraping (for weather content)
• Post expiration for breaking news/weather and cancellations
• Custom Admin Branding
• Picasa photo management and integration using Shashin
• Highly customized printing plugin for hard copies (important to a lot of readers who still print and share with friends with family)
• SuperCaching - too many queries on the homepage/sidebar to live without this
• Highly intelligent ad-serving framework built on Google Ad Manager
• Lots and lots of htaccess magic for feeds, past pages and to prevent deadlinks

We’ve also installed and had a lot of fun and success with the Analytics 360º tool from Crowd Favorite. Nice for contributors to see stats without needing to open the gates on the full analytics tool.

Checkout KNIA/KRLS at www.kniakrls.com to see it in action.

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