By: Jay DeFoore WashingtonPost.com has launched
Post Remix, a new section of its site designed to "spotlight the work of outside Web developers who've made cool and interesting projects ('mashups') using Post content."
The Post's resident mashup developer, Adrian Holovaty, who is featured in this previous
E&P Q&A, is spearheading the new effort.
"Why are we doing this?" Holovaty asks. "Because we want to foster innovation, and because we want to see your ideas about new ways of displaying news and information on the Web."
Some of the first examples listed so far include a "
tag cloud" of Washington Post articles that are browsable by keyword, a
daily news quiz that's created automatically from Post headlines, and RSS feeds of search terms.
Holovaty plans to use the site, which is powered by the Typepad blog service, meaning it's comment-enabled, to spotlight completed projects and exchange ideas for others. The Post hired Holovaty earlier this year as editor of editorial innovation, a new position, after the online journalist/developer spent several years as lead developer at the award-winning Lawrence (Kan.) Journal World.
In other Web development news, the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer has launched
myPI, an organizational tool that allows online readers to customize the content they are most interested in using RSS and e-mail functionality. Lee Rozen, the paper's assistant managing editor for production, said that after announcing the site on Poynter's Online News and the NAA's New Media forums earlier today, he's seen an increase of about 6,000 page views.
"We aren't seeing a lot of customization immediately but that's the kind of thing that takes some time," Rozen said.
Mike Thompson, the PI's online developer, came up with the concept and implemented it in about three or four weeks.
"Users can change the order and content of the modules, picking from 85 Webtowns modules, 42 AP modules, 5 blogs, 12 P-I Sports modules, 22 P-I A&E/Lifestyle modules and 20 P-I News/Business units," Rozen wrote in his posts. "RSS and e-mail feeds are offered where available. By default, the site displays modules of Top AP News headlines, Most Read, Most Printed, Most Emailed and Most Commented headlines."
If you know of other interesting Web developments, e-mail E&P's Online Editor,
Jay DeFoore.
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