June 13th, 2007 | by Derek Willis | published in Miscellany
Permit your sometimes less than humble host a minor celebration: on Monday this site celebrated 7 years of publishing. Sure, the first post (using Blogger) wasn’t much to crow about, but things hopefully have improved a bit since then. Technically, thescoop.org has been around since 1998, but June 11, 2000, is when I started using [...]
November 15th, 2006 | by Derek Willis | published in Miscellany
Today, with some help, I added more RSS feeds to the DOCS, including feeds for individual topics, sources and bylines. Thanks to several colleagues and friends who made helpful suggestions for the site; keep ‘em coming. And big thank-you to Adrian Holovaty, who provided lots of advice and troubleshooting assistance (it’s nice to have Django‘s [...]
November 14th, 2006 | by Derek Willis | published in Miscellany
While things have been slow on this site lately, it’s not for lack of work behind the scenes. A few months ago I decided that the blog format, while easy to maintain and flexible, wasn’t the best way to display a collection of mainly CAR stories. I tried tagging, and that worked ok, but I [...]
October 16th, 2006 | by Derek Willis | published in Miscellany
The Scoop will be on semi-hiatus for awhile, working on a few things behind the scenes. Postings will be sporadic but will resume. Thanks for reading!
July 28th, 2006 | by Derek Willis | published in Miscellany
The Scoop will be on hiatus for the next week as your host enjoys some beach time. Back at it in early August. In the meantime, bug Matt or Chase to post more often.