A tool to take America's pulse before the election, how to track your Reddit mentions and an extremely offline holiday - Poynter

A tool to take America's pulse before the election, how to track your Reddit mentions and an extremely offline holiday - Poynter: A tool to take America’s pulse before the election



Reddit also has thoughts. Finding them is a bigger problem. Forrest Milburn, who does engagement for the Miami Herald, tweeted out a convenient solution for automatically monitoring Reddit for stories from your news organization. He also talks about why you’d want to do that. You just need a Zapier account, Slack and about 10 minutes.



The world is suddenly full of listening devices. That’s not a paranoid thought — every phone, smart watch, home security camera and smart home device could be snooping on every word you speak within range. Worse, there’s nothing much you can do about it short of moving to the woods. Or at least there wasn’t. Two computer scientists from the University of Chicago created what might be the world’s ugliest bracelet (it looks like a Tinkertoy designed by the Tin Man) that blocks all of those gadgets from listening to conversations. It doesn’t seem like you’ll be able to order one on Amazon any time soon (and certainly not through Alexa), but it’s good to know it’s possible to live in a quiet world.



Still looking for a content management system? Earlier this month, we profiled five online publishing systems you should consider. We just updated that post with demos of three of those systems so you can see them in action.



We researched five CMSs to kickstart your CMS transition

Get more information about Arc, Chorus, Ghost, Newspack, and The News Project

February 5, 2020  and 
When starting the CMS research process, the amount of options on the market can be overwhelming. And even when you make a decision – say, deciding to use WordPress – the amount of plugins, customization and configuration needed to get started are endless.
Here, we’ve put together a guide to five modern CMS options on the market. Of course, there are more out there, and this list could grow astronomically long. We pulled these five based on their modern feature set and wide range of customers served.
We also wanted to focus on CMSs that offer solutions that fulfill modern news business needs. While they all go about it differently, each of these options provides reader revenue and advertising features that help modern newsrooms make money on their digital content.
Currently, the guide covers Arc, Chorus, Ghost, The News Project and Newspack. As other solutions come on the market or come to our attention, we may update this guide with more.


Punch in your name, get some context about your life. This is a neat little website that shows, once again, a story doesn’t always have to be a linear set of paragraphs.




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