Tag Archives: TiddlyWiki

The Evolving Newsroom

The Evolving Newsroom is a site run by Julie Starr, a journalist with outstanding credentials to observe what’s happening to the news business and information flows:: From TEN’s “About” page:

…. she’s been a reporter, sub-editor, page layout sub, chief sub-editor, radio presenter, workflow specialist, change agent and editorial manager.

She was part of the team who designed and launched the Daily Telegraph’s integrated web-and-print newsroom in the UK, having a particular focus on future workflows.

Now back in New Zealand after 10 years overseas, Julie is Editor-in-Residence at Wintec’s School of Media Arts in Hamilton, does some journalism teaching and presentations on changes affecting news companies, and takes on project work.

She has a strong interest in designing newsroom workflows, news delivery and increasingly in using social networks and web applications to gather and distribute news.

Julie has no idea what the news business will look like in 10 years but she’s enjoying the ride in the meantime.

Every post at The Evolving Newsroom seems to be concise, nuanced and timely.

Assuming that one thinks that news and information flows – we do – are essential issues that define us as communities – and affect politics, policy and outcomes.

The Evolving Newsroom. Via one of Ms. Starr’s other projects, an excellent  primer/help site on the use of TiddlyWiki software.

Testing: GetTeamTasks

Current software  testing: GetTeamTasks, “a simple extensible task management tool” developed by  Phil Hawksworth, based on the TiddlyWiki platform (application?) and further developed by Hawksworth’s former colleagues at Osmosoft.

GetTeamTasks screenshot - via GetTeamTasks.com

GetTeamTasks screenshot – via GetTeamTasks.com

Within minutes, it was up and running – easy to set up. Not sure for our purposes– uses for community-based groups with multi-segment tasks, alternate plans for different combinations on the risk matrix  (power outage during heat wave requires different planning and response than power outage during the winter). But it’s designed for sharing without a constant connection – like Sahana – snd it has promise for our purposes.

There’s no question, though – that in some other contexts – wedding planning, collaborative grant writing, political and fund-raising campaigns. My guess is less so for film production or construction – but perhaps the new work Mr. Hawksworth has in mind for GetTeamTasks will provide functionality which stretches that way.

TiddlyWiki, the basis for GetTeamTasks, has a number of other impressive mods – we’ll certainly be testing the others which, like GetTeamTasks, are to some extent worked around the GTD (Getting Things Done) approach. Phil Hawksworth:

If this one isn’t quite your cup of tea, perhaps consider trying the simple and elegant GTDTiddlyWiki, the ‘kinkless’ approach at d cubed, or the more powerful MonkeyGTD.

We learned about all of this from the ever-useful Lifehacker.