Five social media lessons learnt from West Africa Democracy Radio
Using Newscoop, Airtime and SoundCloud, West Africa Democracy Radio have become an award-winning social radio network. Here's what we learnt...
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Install your own Booktype server on Ubuntu or Debian
Managed Booktype hosting is available from Sourcefabric, with support for creating both public and private books. If you do not wish to collaborate on writing with authors outside your organization, then having your own Booktype server makes more sense. Also, if you don't have reliable access to the Internet, having your own Booktype server is a practical alternative to cloud-based services. For example, a school with laptops that can connect to each other on a network but not to the Internet may find a local Booktype server valuable.
Read moreMobile Radio BSP brings the world of radio to 30th São Paulo Bienal
Mobiel Radio BSP uses Airtime to ensure no gaps in the live radio at the 30th São Paulo Bienal. The transitory radio art project presents an international selection of artists to share their work with the audience at the Bienal in 2012.
Read moreAlly-Py: The newsroom’s ally
Software architect Gabriel Nistor talks to Trevor Parsons about Ally-Py, the new Free Software framework designed to get the most from web APIs.
Read moreLaunching Framed Horizons: Student Writing on Nordic Cinema
Booktype took part in this years Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the largest industry and public events dedicated to the world of books. As part of the Digital Innovation Sparks Stage events, Booktype hosted the launch of "Framed Horizons: Student Writing on Nordic Cinema".
Read moreHow to 'bling' your Booktype
In this blog post I will try to show how the web view can be customized with simple template modification. By default, Booktype comes with predefined templates but they can all be easily customized to fit your needs.
Read moreWhat does our block sound like? Hacking Airtime at the Mozilla Festival
Sourcefabric, BBG, Mozilla and others are building Our Block, an HTML5 web application that enables individuals to come together to create and participate in the power and passion of neighborhood community radio.
Read moreFrom paper to pixels and back again - Objavi links solutions for publishers
The idea behind Booktype and Objavi is to support as many different types of output formats as possible and have the ability to create high quality outcomes for each from a single source document. Objavi started out as a part of the Booktype project, where it's role was making PDFs and EPUBs from books created inside the Booktype editor.
Read moreMinute by minute: how GEN Live Desk is covering the US elections
In the final days leading up to the US Presidential elections, 50 journalists from 46 countries will beta-test GEN Live Desk, a new liveblogging tool.
Read moreTweeking Zeit Online with Hacks Hackers Berlin
The fourth Hacks/Hackers Berlin took place at the newest digital newsroom in Berlin, home to Zeit Online. Five presentations, fifty people and a lot of discussion around rebooting journalism, drag-n-drop design, open hardware, wifi security and transparency ensued...
Read more'Latest articles widget' with Newscoop Rest API PHP-SDK
PHP-SDK is a library that simply allows access to the Newscoop REST API. You can easily install it in any php project with Composer
Read moreGoogle, Facebook and the future of German media
The Medientage in Munich presented many key players in media, like representatives from Google and Facebook. Unfortunately, the viewpoints of the German media giants presented a lack of vision for the future of cross-platform solutions for media organisations.
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