Instant History

Maybe news organizations could learn a thing or two from the genteel country club: Keep the riff-raff out, a whiff of superiority in, and everyone (with a membership) gets to enjoy the greens. [Read More]

Gail Robinson, editor in chief of the Gotham Gazette, and Amanda Hickman are two of my new journalism heroes. With a Knight Foundation grant, they’ve been creating a series of news games, which they’re in the process of open sourcing. Switch is kind of a basic game that has players... [Read More]

I’ve given up for the evening on getting repeating events to work with Views Calendar. It took long enough just to get any calendar working, but the Spare Change calendar is once again alive and well. [Read More]

Editor's Note: In the interest of sanity and others' edification, I thought it might be nice to start logging my travails developing Spare Change News in Drupal. I probably won't post all the updates to Instant History (the main blog), but the major ones will show up there, with everything... [Read More]

I really don’t know how I ended up being subscribed to 1369 RSS feeds, but I did. A lot of it is probably Twitter feeds, which I subscribed to using Dave Winer’s Twitter OPML exporter because I wanted a backup of this stuff. [Read More]