MAP 150 » Site changes

Journalism students launch VOICES weblog

Griff Wigley — Mon, 19 Jun 2006 14:18:54 +0000

The U of M Journalism students who are staffing the MAP 150 project this summer now have their own weblog called:

They’ve started posting their citizen interviews to it.

We’re aggregating the headlines from the blog in the right sidebar here.

RSS feeds – syndicating and aggregating

Griff Wigley — Mon, 29 May 2006 20:14:00 +0000

On the left sidebar is the RSS feed for this weblog. We’re using Feedburner for the feed since it provides additional features over the WordPress feed.

On the right sidebar, we’re aggregating the five most recent blog entry headlines from the Citizens League weblog’s RSS feed. In the coming weeks, those items will increase as we add feeds from the journalism students’ blogs as well as from other sources.

Confused about RSS?

Weblog comments; other online interaction

Griff Wigley — Mon, 29 May 2006 19:54:00 +0000

Some of the blog entries will have the comment feature turned on — this one does — and others won’t. It’ll be up to the author to decide whether or not they want to embrace comments for that particular post and if so, for how long.

In addition to blog comment threads, we’ll likely have other online tools for engaging site visitors in conversations. Under consideration: web forums (message boards), both time-limited and ongoing; real-time chat forums; real-time audio forums (eg, Skype conferencing); straw-polls; and whatever else we/you can think of.

So go ahead, attach a comment here to experiment.

Real Soon Now

Griff Wigley — Sat, 27 May 2006 01:50:08 +0000

My company, Wigley and Associates, has been hired by the Citizens League to help with various technologies for the MAP 150 project.

First up: a website up with the WordPress platform.

Second: a web-based project management tool using Basecamp.