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Karen McGrane

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Karen McGrane's personal blog at karenmcgrane.com covers design and career. Since 2013, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Why HN links it

Linked for its coverage of Create Once, Publish Everywhere (COPE), the content architecture NPR popularised, through the SaaS provider Osmek. Only one comment clearly ties to this post.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. This is more awesome than it first appears. They are a SaaS "Create Once, Publish Everywhere" (COPE) provider. NPR popularized the term a few years back, and the use it in their production environment. I have one client actively using the same architecture in production, and they love it. They use a Django site as the backend, and node.js-powered websites to publish the content. Some links on the topic: http://blog.…

    Comment linking /2012/09/04/adapting-ourselves-to-adaptive-content-video-slides-and-transcript-oh-my/

    on “Osmek”
  2. Submitted The Mobile Content Mandate as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  3. I've built my experience mainly through exposure to native mobile. I find that the walled gardens and constraints you work within tend to help focus what you're creating. It's easier to tell when something looks or feels "wrong" when you're looking at apps that are built to match the OS's ecosystem, instead of the latest web trends. When you work with a standardized set of UI elements on a canvas of limited size, yo…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Recommendations for learning design (UI/UX)?”
  4. Submitted I Suck And So Do You as a story · 1 points

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  5. Submitted Why technology history matters as a story · 1 points

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