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Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.

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  • Square Now Being Used For Mobile Payments At Political Fundraisers
    TechCrunch | March 18, 2010
    The thing that interests me most about Square is that it feels like a hardware bridge to something else. Hard to believe we're going to need to "swipe" physical magnetic strips for much longer.
  • Disaster reporting: What if we offered assistance instead of asked for material?
    paulbalcerak.com | March 17, 2010
    Paul Balcerak reverses the information stream, and instead of asking readers for photos, or feeding them unfiltered breaking news, he asks them a simple question: What do you need to know right now?
  • What 15 Journalists Took Home from South by Southwest
    Poynter E-Media Tidbits | March 18, 2010
    Good, quick notes from a wide range of online news folks who braved the crowds and played panel roulette at SXSW in Austin last week.
  • Ben Heck completes the Bill Paxton Pinball machine, reasserts supremacy
    Engadget | March 17, 2010
    I will sleep well tonight knowing this pinball machine was built for one explicit purpose. "Game over, man. Game over."
  • Our next contest: Design for America
    Sunlight Labs Blog | March 17, 2010
    Sunlight Labs announces a data visualization contest, including judges like Nicholas Felton, Nathan Yau, and Charles Blow.
  • How The Concept of Free Can Work For Small Publishers
    nathanhenrion.com | March 11, 2010
    Free e-books as a loss leader and marketing tool for the rest of the series? I'll buy that.
  • Any Social Media Coordinators Out There?
    Journalistopia | March 17, 2010
    Social Media Coordinator - Hartford Courant: Danny Sanchez is personally advertising for this spot with some broadcast crossover. Check it out!
  • New Alex e-reader starts with one million Google Books in its catalog
    feedproxy.google.com
    Complicated but interesting variation in the e-reader market: One b/w screen for reading, another color screen for browsing. And it runs Android apps?
  • 10 Reasons Why News Organizations Should Use 'Linked Data'
    PBS IdeaLab | March 16, 2010
    If you're looking to wrap your head around the concept of 'linked data' on the Web, this list by Martin Moore is a good starting point. Follow the links, and you'll find a few different explainer threads.
  • Theives Steal $75 Million in Eli Lilly Drugs
    Daily Finance | March 17, 2010
    Always interesting to watch currency and crime evolve in parallel, isn't it?

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