First movers

... don't always come up winners. The Gopher protocol predated the World Wide Web; indeed, Tim Berners-Lee used Gopher to promote his new gizmo. Now Gopher, a semi-authorized project of a University of Minnesota computing lab, is all but silent.

Snappy

The Los Angeles Times is rolling out a new CMS named SNAP (for Simple News Assembly Platform) to other tronc properties. Shan Wang has the story.

The Slack integrations with the various editing desks are a tasty idea.

Starting young

Girls Who Code visits the New York Times.