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Newspapers get bailout money for “internet training”

February 24, 2009

Two Minnesota newspapers will receive a share of state grants normally given to retrain workers in manufacturing and other industries in transition. ————— It’s called WordPress and post — they can’t be that backwards.. a 3ed grader can figure out how to put the content on a blog… In fact my 3 year old son just last week how to upload photos from a digital camera to a wordpress blog. Your tax money at work.

Minnesota Job Skills Partnership is awarding $238,000 in state funds, while the newspapers and the university will contribute about $469,000 combined, mostly by devoting staff time to training.

Half a million dollars has to be spent on teaching these dying industries how to post on WordPress?

I can’t believe what I am reading…. how can we reward this level of incompetence… It’s not like Drudgereport was breaking stories in 1997 — so evidently a dozen years later they noticed the Internet exists?

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  • Someguy

    I’m in sort of an opposite situation. My bosses are buying me a “CMS System” [sic] which will allow me to do things like “add content” and “post links”.

    I’ve been told that WP is too “Open Source”. I suggested to our agency “internet” department that we would be happy to have them create a Theme for us which we would distribute to the world. They would enjoy a nice link in our footer. No charge of course.

    You can imagine the mental stakes they were driving into my heart at that meeting. Lucky for them, the forces in charge still consider me “the weird tech guy” who may as well be wearing a tinfoil hat. So I will get a Rolls Royce with a Yugo engine instead.

  • Someguy

    I’m in sort of an opposite situation. My bosses are buying me a “CMS System” [sic] which will allow me to do things like “add content” and “post links”.

    I’ve been told that WP is too “Open Source”. I suggested to our agency “internet” department that we would be happy to have them create a Theme for us which we would distribute to the world. They would enjoy a nice link in our footer. No charge of course.

    You can imagine the mental stakes they were driving into my heart at that meeting. Lucky for them, the forces in charge still consider me “the weird tech guy” who may as well be wearing a tinfoil hat. So I will get a Rolls Royce with a Yugo engine instead.

  • http://www.tribbleagency.com/ TheFounder

    “too Open Source” — huh? Are you kidding me? “Too Open Source” .. perhaps that is why it’s the most highly adopted blogging format? Because it IS open source and people can modify what they need to get it to work for their business needs.

  • http://www.tribbleagency.com TheFounder

    “too Open Source” — huh? Are you kidding me? “Too Open Source” .. perhaps that is why it’s the most highly adopted blogging format? Because it IS open source and people can modify what they need to get it to work for their business needs.