Ryan Mark » Projects http://ryan-mark.com Writer, coder, news hacker. Fri, 07 May 2010 16:46:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 News Mixer http://ryan-mark.com/2008/12/11/news-mixer/ http://ryan-mark.com/2008/12/11/news-mixer/#comments Fri, 12 Dec 2008 03:10:15 +0000 Ryan http://ryan-mark.com/?p=111 We presented News Mixer this week to Medill Facult, friends and to our partner, The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. People loved it. The internets were all a twitter about our project.

News Mixer is your home for connection and interaction around news in Eastern Iowa. News Mixer adds a new dimension to your relationships with your Facebook friends by taking advantage of a new service called Facebook Connect. We hope News Mixer will helps you build new connections with other people interested in talking about Eastern Iowa news.

This first version of News Mixer is a demonstration site for you to test and explore. Take a look around! We would love your feedback.

I’ll be posting more about the project when I get the time to write. In the meantime – checkout our code.

We got some write-ups:

Medill’s News Mixer remixes story comments – Patrick Beeson said it “could be a game-changing effort for news story comments,” and Richard Kendall, an editor for

Newsmix opens the door to engagement – Richard K called Newsmixer “Very impressive”

A good day for new media in Illinois – Classmate Erin Halasz wrote about our project

]]> http://ryan-mark.com/2008/12/11/news-mixer/feed/ 0 CTA Incidents project code up http://ryan-mark.com/2008/11/10/cta-incidents-project-code-up/ http://ryan-mark.com/2008/11/10/cta-incidents-project-code-up/#comments Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:20:16 +0000 Ryan http://ryan-mark.com/?p=107 I’ve setup a Google code project with my work on the CTA Accidents and Derailments project. I’m slowly plugging away at building a Django back-end to make data entry simple and open to everyone.

If you are interested in contributing to this project in any way send me a message or leave a comment.

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