Aram Zucker-Scharff

The homepage is dead, the section home page is dead, the app is dead and the social web has won—even at NYT. :

Traffic to the New York Times homepage fell by half in the last two years, according to the newspaper’s internal review of its digital strategy. Here’s the very stark chart: That’s not necessarily a reflection of any problems at the Times but the reality of how news is now distributed on the internet. Homepage traffic is declining at…

The new reality: news is all push, no pull.

I had many laughs while reading this. All the lols. Especially:

“You get to know your useful tools, then you look around, and there are some handy new tools nearby and those tools show you the bottomless horror that was always right next to your bed.”

I’m finding that I need something like this in a lot of projects, so I figured I’d build something out that could be reused and shared between plugins, the idea is a class that can be called inside a plugin or theme unless already active. 

https://github.com/PressForward/pressforward/blob/3.1.x/includes/specimen-box.php 

Next step is to take it as its own repo for others to pull and use. 

PressForward, the Google Reader replacement that runs inside your WordPress install, is now in open beta! This is one of the project’s that I’ve spent the last year working on and I’m very excited to get to this stage. PressForward, which is hitting beta just in time to complete testing when Google Reader hits the […]