Tag Archives: Blox

Busy Friday

By Michael Becker | Published: January 29, 2010
It was a busy Friday. In addition to editing audio for Jodi’s Sunday Page 1 story on the drop-in center in Livingston, I learned that we have finally been given access to our new Web site. In case you missed an earlier post about Blox, this is the software that will run our new Web site. [...]
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Blox Update

By Michael Becker | Published: January 20, 2010
We’re going through some final checklists with TownNews on the new Blox site. Once we say that we’re happy with it (should happen today or tomorrow), the site goes into “quality control” before it’s handed over to us. Estimates say that we could be live next month. That means a lot of work to get things [...]
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Blox update

By Michael Becker | Published: December 15, 2009
We’re looking at a preliminary version of the new Blox site now and are in the process of sending our feedback to TownNews so that they can iron out some of the kinks. After that will be a period of fine-tuning before we go live some time at the end of January. It’s unclear so [...]
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Blox Update

By Michael Becker | Published: December 2, 2009
I thought I’d share this line from an e-mail from corporate regarding our new Blox site. Many of our Blox sites are falling behind their original target launch dates. If you’re wondering when we’re going to get the new site, the answer, at least for now, is unknown. We had hoped to launch in January. We’ll have [...]
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The hNews microformat may revolutionize how readers interact with our news

By Michael Becker | Published: November 14, 2009
One of the big new things in online news is going to be hNews, which is a type of “microformat.” Microformats have been around for a few years. They are basically little libraries of tags that can be wrapped around content online to help make that content more easily readable by machines. The benefit of [...]
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Blox stuff

By Michael Becker | Published: November 11, 2009
Word has it that some members of the newsroom staff will soon get a chance to play around in our new Web site system, Blox. That means that within a week or two, we’ll start to get a sense of what it will be like to work in the new system, and it will be [...]
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TownNews Blox will include hNews microformat standard

By Michael Becker | Published: October 20, 2009
TownNews has partnered with the Associated Press to make it easier for both humans and machines to read the news. TownNews announced in a written statement today that it’s worked with the Associated Press to include a feature in its new Blox content management system: the hNews microformat. Microformats are ways of coding content to make [...]
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