Managing News

Managing News is a robust news and data aggregation engine with pluggable visualization and workflow tools.

Download from ManagingNews.com

Features

• Aggregate RSS/Atom news
• Show news as list or on a map
• Search news
• Republish news by bundling articles into channels
• Configurable location tagging
• Configurable maps

Designed and developed by Development Seed.

The Knight Foundation helped fund key module development to improve Drupal's mapping and aggregation tools.

Roadmap

This roadmap is a summary of envisioned improvements and changes to Managing News for 2010. Keep in mind that this list is tentative and in no particular order, much of the actual priorities are shaped by the projects we use Managing News for and patches submitted via the issue queue.

User interface improvements

• Multilinguality - MN is translatable right now, but does not support RTL languages for the interface.
• Usability fine tuning: improve workflows, simplify tasks, clarify functionality.
• Further improve moderation UI, allow removing of news items.
• Fix 'time horizon' - right now situations with very high frequency feeds and very low frequency feeds at the same time aren't handled very well - #661314: "Sync" or "cache" mode?
• Further simplify customization of geotagging/mapping feature including optionally shutting it off entirely. This improvement should make it easier to adjust the geotagging/mapping to different geographical areas.

Performance improvements

• PubsubHubbub is experimental. Go to admin/build/feeds, edit the syndication importer and enable 'PubSubHubbub' under the fetcher settings.

Interoperability improvements

• Improve tagging by supporting synonyms and pluggable tagging (placemaker, autotagger).

Housekeeping

• Functional tests
• Upgrade to Drupal 7.
• Better separation of functionalities, separate mapping stack better, separate listing stack better. Goal: reuse mapping outside of MN, allow other content types than RSS/Atom.