It's Dec. 20, only 12 days until it will be 2006...2006! We've been in the newsroom for almost two years. Can that be right? Time sure flies when you're having as much fun as we are. I can only really speak for myself, but in my opinion, our journey has been, so far, challenging, inspiring and rewarding.
We're going to be making some big changes over winter break (we being mostly me, this place is a ghost town between semesters). Katie left me for an internship with The SpokesmanReview.com on Monday. I look forward to reading about her experience on the Intern Blog. But (gulp, I hate to admit this) I will miss her.
We'll be hiring a part-time student system administrator over break too. I'm hyper-paranoid about my servers and I want someone to stand watch so I can do my work without sweating the constant backups, patches and upgrades.
All-in-all, it was a good semester, and I look forward to implementing some of the plans the students proposed this fall.
Here's a quick rundown of what we'll be working on over the next five weeks or so:
- Migrating from WordPress to Movable Type (hence the new look of eHub)
- Developing a plan for video podcasting
- Upgrading our newsroom digital signage
- Re-thinking our sports coverage on tv.ku.edu
It will be a busy "break."
Like the new template. Why are you moving from Wordpress to MT, though? That's relatively rare, I was curious why.
Lisa, there were two main reasons we made the switch. First, we had many (20-ish) separate blogs and needed a centralized way to administer them. Twenty installations is just too much to keep up-to-date, and I had problems getting WordPressMU to even install (although I know development on that has picked up since Wordpress.com launched). Also, our poor little server was strained by so many database hits on all of those blogs. MT offered a centralized way to manage blogs and authors, along with flat-files instead of wholly-dynamic pages.
I love WordPress passionately. I was a long-time MT user and was absolutely gleeful when I switched to WP for my personal blog. But right now, MT meets eHub's needs better.