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comment moderation and reporting

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A Ruby module providing equivilents of PHP's serialize() and unserialize() functions

haml and sass WP plugin

git://github.com/troydhanson/pmtr.git

OpenBlock looks interesting - a 'hyperlocal news and data platform'

wp-shell looks interesting - a console / interactive shell for WordPress

In typical Just Tadlock fashion, he has written and published another in-depth tutorial that covers User Taxonomies. The tutorial is not for the faint of heart as it requires that you know how a few sections of WordPress work such as plugins, themes, users, and the taxonomies themselves. Just imagine how awesome the Codex would be if Justin wrote the entire thing!

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In Uganda, where many lack access to the Internet, people can engage with local radio stations to make informed choices and hold their leaders accountable. Using SMS and a new tool, TRAC FM, listeners can respond to poll questions such as: What service delivery should be a priority: health care, education, security, sanitation or transport?

TRAC FM was the focus of a larger case study we did for the Mobile Media Toolkit. The Mobile Media Toolkit is a project of MobileActive.org. The Toolkit provides how-to guides, wireless tools, and case studies on how mobile phones can (and are) being used for reporting, news broadcasting, and citizen media.

The TRAC FM software plots SMS responses to questions poised during radio programs. The responses are condensed in data visualizations, including bar graphs, time graphs, and maps, so that radio presenters can get an overview of where reports are coming from and what the issues are.

But, in Uganda, radio stations generally do not have websites, so sharing the visualizations with their audience requires a little more creativity. What stations do often have is an Internet connection to download audio files they use for advertisements from companies like MTN.

How data visualizations help

So radio presenters log into the TRAC FM system through their Internet connection in the studio and share the poll results with listeners during their talk show. The data visualization overviews may offer more substance, as they are the aggregation of an entire audience and not just an individual opinion. The data visualization for the public service delivery question, for example, showed that 65 percent of respondents thought health care was the top priority.

To learn more about how they did this, read the full case study at the Mobile Media Toolkit.

The Mobile Media Toolkit is a collection of resources, guides, case studies, and mobile tool reviews to help you make sense of mobile media. From creating and editing audio and video content on your handset, to delivering content to mobile audiences, to engaging with listeners and readers via mobile, it's a one-stop shop on Making Media Mobile. We launched this summer and have been adding great new content and case studies, in English, Spanish, and Arabic. We now have a few pages available in Russian, too, with more to come.

Stop on by to see what we're up to. Find us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, or reach out to us here to submit your own stories from the field or alert us to great new mobile media tools.

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WordCamp Cape Town took place last month at the iconic V&A Waterfront with Table Mountain as the backdrop. 6 of the WooThemes team members were representing and engaging with WordPress & WooThemes users.

Highlights
Below is a short 2 minute video of the day’s activities. WordCamp was slickly & professionally organised by Ashley Shaw of LightSpeed. Ashley also happens to be one of our most advanced Canvas theme users, check out his portfolio for some incredible mods!

Using WordPress as a development framework
Using WordPress as a development framework aims to alleviate the overhead associated with common activities performed in Web development. WordPress gives you a base set of application functionality such as user management, routing, caching, that you don’t need to build from scratch.

This session will show you how easy it is to implement a public frontend, backend, and admin area for users, as well as a basic API and other advanced functions.

The Business of WordPress: Making Money in more ways than one
WordPress has grown into a very diverse ecosystem, where its users have cultivated multiple different opportunities to create & build a business. Commercial themes have been the most obvious / mainstream success, but beyond theming there’s still so many untapped opportunities.

This session briefly explores some of the more untapped opportunities.

See more WordCamp Cape Town talks on the dedicated YouTube channel.

From left to right: Cobus Bester, Byron Rode, Adrian Myburgh, Mark Forrester, Jason Bagley, Adii Pienaar, Charl Norman, Nur Ahmad Furlong.