Version 6 of the open source Content Management System, Drupal, was released last week. We are really excited about this release, as we specialize in Drupal and have been playing with the beta releases of this version for many months now. Version 6 represents a significant step forward for Drupal....
Continue ReadingIn the past we have praised those like Adrian Holovaty who use databases for news reporting. Holovaty left his job at The Washington Post several months ago to work on a hyperlocal site called EveryBlock.
It launched several days ago with database driven hyperlocal news and information reporting for Chicago,...
Continue ReadingHere at The Bivings Group we're fans of Adrian Holovaty; he has developed fascinating on-line database news features for news sites like for The Washington Post. Today, upon recieving a grant from the Knight Foundation that he'll use to develop an innovative site at EveryBlock that will make local news more useful. ...
Continue ReadingI’ve been telling anyone that would listen that someone should comb through the FEC reports and figure out how much Presidential campaigns paid their web vendors during the first quarter. I did this because I wanted to know and was too lazy to do it myself.
Shira Toeplitz from Hotline dove in and wrote the story....
Continue ReadingThe other day I stumbled across a YouTube video of pioneering journalists/programmer Adrian Holovaty playing the MacGyver theme song on guitar. (The video is on the YouTube homepage and has been viewed 750,000+ times). Seeing the video prompted me to head over to his site for the first time in awhile....
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