Posts by Don Christie
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and for those who did not see me pissed at the last Netguide awards, I am a huge fan of Stuff.co.nz ...
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Che, Newsroom have a associate site "newswire.co.nz" which is free.
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PS, so far this new system works in Mozilla 1.7.13 on a Debian distro and Firefox 1.5.07 on Ubuntu 6.0.6 (Dapper).
Although nothing happens if one forgets the final '/' after system in the URL. Small config change required :-)
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With all due respect to Scoop (and acknowledging their contribution to this anyway) Newsroom.co.nz was a real earth mover for me. About 8 or 9 years ago they revolutionised the way "news" could be communicated from the directly creators to the audience without any filtering by the MSM. Given journalists' propesity to take a press release, bastardise it and then print the crapped up version this was a real breath of fresh air (well, it would have been were it not for all the cigarette smoke).
I first met Pete Fowler in his grubby flat/office on The Terrace and when he explained his reticulation model to me I was totally blown away. So clean, so simple and such a good use of the web. Where Newsroom lead others now follow.
Scoop has followed a more editorial model and certainly lead in trying to apply technology innovatively (audio, video etc).
Glad to see that both organisations are still with us.