Publishers (especially newspapers) are going to some very rough times. Most of the journalist and publishers are still in denial about how the web changed the creation and gathering of news and are up in their ivory tower thinking they publish for dead-trees and web is just an over hyped toy medium. While smarter publishers understand that the web is a disruptive technology and if they do not change, they will become a dinosaur.

Some of those publishers that do get it, think that they only way to be online is via the same tool that the competition is using. Their is no branch in the world that is so inside-thinking as the publishing market. Newspapers still do not understand that they are not competing with other newspapers anymore, but with every single site on the Internet. And this is why "braindead" tools like escenic still have a huge market; newspaper A chooses a proprietary tool, so newspaper B has to have the same tool.

In that respect it is good to see that more and more newspapers are not using what another newspaper is using, but what other quality sites are using as a tool to publish. And today, a newspapers therefor switched to Drupal.

The news on jornalsim.co.uk

The world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, London-based The Jewish Chronicle, has re-launched its news site using free open source software Drupal.

The Jewish Chronicle, popularly known as The JC, has become the latest news site to choose open source software Drupal as its content management system (CMS).

"I would like to think we are the first national news site in the UK to run on Drupal, but I do not know for certain that we are. At the moment we are in beta mode, so we are not shouting about it," Richard Burton, managing editor of The JC, told Journalism.co.uk.

For the former editor of Telegraph.co.uk, who joined the title in February 2007, the contrast between the expensive, large-scale online development at his former newspaper and the low-cost, lightweight use of Drupal could not be starker.

I like that, cheaper then the big projects that are twice as expensive, taking 3 times as long to implement and deliverg half the functionality. Read also this article that is related to this.

I do think that Drupal will grow in every market, but public and media are the two markets that will adapt the power of Drupal really fast.

Somehwo I always manage to screw stuff up. The other day I connected my iPhone to my Mac and it fired up -as it should- iTunes. However, iTunes told me that I should "activate my iPhone or that the SIM was damaged". I have a jailbroken iPhone and a fine SIM card, rebooting the iPhone "solved" the problem. However, it triggered something else that I only found out days later; the Youtube application still was not activated and tol me when I started it

You must first connect to iTunes with an Internet connection to enable Youtube

And then the application stopped. It seems that this is "normal" behaviour when you unlock your phone with ziPhone. However, I jailbroke my iPhone with iNdependence and it has been working fine for month.

The solution for ZiPhone users worked for me as well however. Some say that installing a "YouTube fix" program via the installer application will work, it did not for me. But all you have to do is copy three files to your iPhone, even if you do not know anything about UNIX an easy task.

Just download these threefiles. Start a SFTP client on your machine, copy the files in /var/root/Library/Lockdown to your desktop for backup reasons and copy the three files you downloaded to the same location. The userid to do this with is "root", the password "alpine".

Worked for me, I can use the Youtube application again, thanks to macriot!

If you have taken screenshots on your Mac with CMD SHIFT 4 (or 5), you will have seen that most of the screenshots do not have much detail and are in fact a bit blurry. This is caused by Mac OSX, making by defaults the screenshots in JPEG format. JPEG -unlike for example PNG- is a loosy compressed image format that is great for photo's but not too good for screenshots.

To change this, open a terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
killall SystemUIServer

From now and, screenshots will be in the PNG format, better for making screenshots.

A very good tip found on creativebits

A small test on metadata. Spot the difference.

One difference, the first I added the tag downblouse, the second is free of tags.

What a difference metadata makes and what a shame that Flickr has become a site to look for porn. Sad, I always thought of Flickr as the last bastion of true artistic value but it seems that it has is being used like the rest of the internet is.

You know you are a has been if you launch a new site using a kick ass CMS and the projectlead of the CMS is not even blogging it.

Sleep tight Metallica.