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Finding sources for FLOSS projects: Make it easy!

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 3/5/2010
One of the more difficult things for reporters working in the tech industry, especially those who aren't really familiar with a beat, is finding contacts for free software projects. Increasingly, projects like GNOME or openSUSE are in mainstream news, but finding someone to "speak for" those projects can be a challenge. This is doubly true when [...]
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Apple banning racy content? Why now?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/20/2010
Just read that Apple has tightened its restrictions on all the crap "boob, babe, and bikini" apps in the App Store. What took so long? I get sick of seeing all the crap apps in the App Store, especially when Apple restricts legitimate but "competing" applications. If Apple is going to play gatekeeper, then they should [...]
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Blogging 101: Take a Tip from Newswriting with the Five W's

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/16/2010
Who? When? Why? What? Where? How? If you don't answer those questions, why bother blogging at all? The "Five W's" as they're often called (and one H) are drilled into every journalism student as crucial for news-writing. Who is involved? When did it happen? Where did it happen? How and why did it happen? And, for [...]
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Cheap tactics: Apple store down

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/9/2010
My first skim of the morning tech news turned up a bunch of chatter about Apple's "store" being down. This happens a couple of times every year. Apple "takes the store down" and people start getting all excited that something new is on the way. It's hard to believe Apple doesn't get reamed for [...]
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Raising Money for Open Source Projects: How Can We Improve?

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 2/4/2010
One of the things I admire about the FLOSS community is the willingness to dig in and tackle problems facing a project, whether they're technical, structural (hosting, etc.), governance, licensing, and so on. But it would occasionally be a better idea to try to recruit expertise from the outside than to try to re-invent the [...]
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Put some meat on it: Writing release announcements

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 12/30/2009
I've been spending a fair amount of time away from the computer while on vacation, which has been nice, but I took some time yesterday to catch up on my RSS feeds. Even thought it's pretty quiet out there right now, I found several posts and announcements about beta releases, project releases, and so on. Two [...]
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K Desktop Environment is Dead: Long Live KDE

By Joe Brockmeier | Published: 11/25/2009
Following in the footsteps of Kentucky Fried Chicken KFC, the KDE Project is rebranding and getting rid of the full name "K Desktop Environment." Unlike KFC, KDE won't be offering crispy chicken and stale biscuits. What KDE will be offering is "distinct brands for the software that was previously referred to generically as 'KDE'." Instead [...]
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