Mozilla to develop NYT's new comment/contribution system

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
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Subject	Mozilla to develop NYT's new comment/contribution system
Date	2014-06-19 19:45 +0000
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From the «User comments - that's a new one» department:
Title: Mozilla to develop New York Times' new comment/contribution system
Author: zafiro17@pipedot.org
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:53:56 -0400
Link: http://pipedot.org/story/2014-06-19/mozilla-to-develop-new-york-times-new-commentcontribution-system

Wow - This is big. The New York Times has selected the folks from Mozilla to
develop their new comment and contribution system[1].

The New York Times and The Washington Post announced on Thursday that they
had teamed up with Mozilla to develop a new platform that will allow them
to better manage their readers’ online comments and contributions. The
platform will be supported by a grant of roughly $3.9 million from the John
S. and James L. Knight Foundation, an organization that gives substantial
money to promote journalism innovation. Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox
web browser and a nonprofit that works for open standards on the web, will
help The Times and The Post build the technology for a platform tailored to
news organizations. The platform, which will take approximately two years
to complete, will eventually be available for other news organization to
download free.

Looks like opportunity in many senses: a chance to rethink online commenting,
a chance for Mozilla to make a buck, and a chance to put an axe in the head
of "Sign into Facebook to comment" type approaches. Me, I would've
recommended they install Pipecode[2]. But hey.

Links:
[1]: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/20/business/media/new-york-times-and-washington-post-to-develop-platform-for-readers-contributions.html?_r=0 (link)
[2]: http://pipecode.org/ (link)

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