Ryan Sholin » mashups http://ryansholin.com The future of news. And more. No funny stuff. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:54:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 2006-2007 ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) ryansholin@gmail.com (Ryan Sholin) http://www.ryansholin.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com 144 144 Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education. Ryan Sholin Ryan Sholin ryansholin@gmail.com no no RiP: A Remix Manifesto (Chapter 1) http://ryansholin.com/2009/05/05/rip-a-remix-manifesto-chapter-1/ http://ryansholin.com/2009/05/05/rip-a-remix-manifesto-chapter-1/#comments Tue, 05 May 2009 11:04:37 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2009/05/05/rip-a-remix-manifesto-chapter-1/ ::Video:: | Daft Punk | “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (live)RJP-GNR-DocumentaryMiddio]]> Whatever this movie is, I want more of it. In this clip, we meet… Girl Talk.

RiP: A Remix Manifesto (Chapter 1)

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Maps, spreadsheets, yahoo pipes and post offices – andydickinson.net

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2009/02/11/maps-spreadsheets-yahoo-pipes-and-post-offices-andydickinson-net/feed/ 0 Daily Crime Map – abqjournal.com http://ryansholin.com/2008/09/11/daily-crime-map-abqjournal-com/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/09/11/daily-crime-map-abqjournal-com/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:48:04 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2008/09/11/daily-crime-map-abqjournal-com/ Honestly, this site doesn’t do much right, but I love the way this crime map filters by DWI at the start. It’s a HUGE problem in Albuquerque, so it’s totally logical to point them out right away.

Daily Crime Map – abqjournal.com

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/09/11/daily-crime-map-abqjournal-com/feed/ 0 Take Control of Your Maps – A List Apart http://ryansholin.com/2008/04/08/take-control-of-your-maps-a-list-apart/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/04/08/take-control-of-your-maps-a-list-apart/#comments Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:55:47 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2008/04/08/take-control-of-your-maps-a-list-apart/ How to build your own interactive maps, sans Google, a la everyblock.com.

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Map Channels

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/03/13/map-channels/feed/ 0 Community Audio Recording Project; Bringing Northampton To Life Online – Northamptonist http://ryansholin.com/2008/02/13/community-audio-recording-project-bringing-northampton-to-life-online-northamptonist/ http://ryansholin.com/2008/02/13/community-audio-recording-project-bringing-northampton-to-life-online-northamptonist/#comments Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:46:01 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2008/02/13/community-audio-recording-project-bringing-northampton-to-life-online-northamptonist/ Call the phone number, say where you are, leave a message and it gets mapped here. Love this as a relatively easy way to get community audio online – an audio guestbook, really.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2008/02/13/community-audio-recording-project-bringing-northampton-to-life-online-northamptonist/feed/ 0 Map thyself http://ryansholin.com/2007/12/13/map-thyself/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/12/13/map-thyself/#comments Thu, 13 Dec 2007 14:29:14 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/12/13/map-thyself/ {Carnival! There’s a journalism blog carnival under way, hosted — if you can wrap your head around that concept — by the folks at Scribblesheet, some sort of collaborative writing tool I haven’t had a chance to look at yet. Here’s a review of their product at the Online Journalism Blog.}

I’ve written pretty extensively about the merits of using free online tools to embed, well, just about anything, in an online news story. Here are two map-based examples from opposite ends of the spectrum:

In the major metro disaster scene category, we have The Oregonian’s coverage of what looks like a pretty hardcore wind and rain storm this week, with all the photos, multimedia, and many stories aggregated on a Google map that a Web Producer* built the complicated way: updating a KML file and embedding the map created by it.

Here’s a snip of what the page looks like today:

Oregonian Storm Map 2007

The headlines on the left are being pulled off of RSS feeds from a couple different sections of the news site; the photos on the right are from a Flickr collection of photos by staff photographers. (Any contributed photos here? Why not a call for readers who use Flickr to tag their photos something common and pull that feed?)

It’s easy to navigate, with lots of content (including video that plays in an embedded Brightcove player in the pop-up from the spot on the map – always nice to see that), and once the files are put together, it’s not difficult for a producer to update the map.

At the other end of the continuum we have my local paper, the Santa Cruz Sentinel, filling a hyperlocal need with a map of where to find houses and businesses decked out with lights for the holidays.

Santa Cruz Holiday Lights Map 2007

I love it. In fact, I live here, and I’m planning to use the map as a guide to take my family out to see the lights.

The folks in Santa Cruz (full disclosure: I worked at the Sentinel for a year) used ZeeMaps, a free map-building tool where you can add content to a map, embed it in your site, and most important for this exercise, allow your readers to add points on the map themselves.

Which means the map is an interactive, dynamic source of information for your community.

There are more than a few sites to help you get this job done. Check out FMAtlas or MapBuilder or even the ‘My Maps’ feature in Google Maps.

And if those tools are old news to you and you’re ready to go a little deeper down the rabbit hole, here’s the place to start learning about rolling your own embedded map.

Need more inspiration? Check out this list over more than 1,000 Google Maps mashups.

*The Oregonian Web Producer in question was Mark Friesen of NewsDesigner.com, who needs to update his blog.

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2007/12/13/map-thyself/feed/ 8 Screencast: Drupal Mashup Machine | Zacker.org http://ryansholin.com/2007/09/27/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine-zacker-org/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/09/27/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine-zacker-org/#comments Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:32:33 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2007/09/27/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine-zacker-org/ Sounds like a fun way to put together a quick app, if you already have all these pieces sitting around the server. via dsato.

Screencast: Drupal Mashup Machine | Zacker.org

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]]> http://ryansholin.com/2007/09/27/screencast-drupal-mashup-machine-zacker-org/feed/ 0 Google Maps Mashups 2.0 – LatLong http://ryansholin.com/2007/07/11/google-maps-mashups-2-0-latlong/ http://ryansholin.com/2007/07/11/google-maps-mashups-2-0-latlong/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:49:59 +0000 Ryan Sholin http://ryansholin.com/2007/07/11/google-maps-mashups-2-0-latlong/ Sure, this new mashups on MyMaps thing is cute and all, but Will It Embed? I bet it will…

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