Light blogging here as we devoted considerable energy this week to the launch of War Room ’04, our new group blog. Spearheaded by our new senior news editor, Geraldine Sealey, and featuring contributions from across Salon’s staff, War Room will be a centerpiece of Salon’s election-year coverage, and we’ve got more features to roll out in coming days and weeks (including, soon, an RSS feed for it).
We wanted to publish War Room as a blog within Salon’s existing content management system, so its content would be integrated with our search and directory. That meant we couldn’t just pull an existing blogging tool off the shelf; we had to write our own — or rather wrestle the existing software we use to publish articles into a different form. This is something I’ve been waiting for and advocating we do for, well, for as long as we’ve been rolling our own software — since early ’99, when we were still producing the blog-like “In Box” for Salon Technology but had to update and archive everything by hand. I recall conversations with different developers at different stages of Salon’s evolution about the need to flow small items through our site. We sat and talked about how we might do it (“we’ll call them ‘storettes’!”, I recall one programmer deciding), but we never got around to doing it because there was always something more pressing and revenue-related for our production team to focus on.
So hats off to our crew, especially Dominic Dela Cruz and Max Garrone, who did the heaviest lifting, for getting this up and running. I’ll continue to blog here, of course, but you’ll also find some of my commentary over in War Room.
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