If there’s one application responsible for an exponential boost in my productivity at the news copy desk it’s Float’s Mobile Agent (FMA). I wrote a short post about FMA earlier. FMA is an open source application that allows you to manage and operate your mobile phone through your PC via a data cable, infrared or [...]

(Note: This is version .5 of the article. I estimate five more rewrites to finalize this.)
The newsroom recently upgraded computers used by its reporters. The computers, with clock speeds ranging from 166 Mhz to 500 MHZ, were early generation Pentiums and were primarily used for word processing.
I told our editor-in-chief I wanted to try to [...]

I regularly experiment with open source scripts and programs for possible features in Sun.Star Cebu’s Cybercafe page. At times, I’d find programs that can be used to improve a newsroom’s system or the way a journalist works with the PC.
During a recent chat in an online course I’m taking, we discussed the open source philosophy. [...]