Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
A bulleted list of things that have caught my eye over the past few days, or things I’ve been involved in, or things I’d like to be involved in…
Pat Thornton interviewed me for the BeatBlogging podcast. We talked about ReportingOn, what it could become, and (more important) what it could spawn if there are interested [...]
First, a bit of history: The first time I fiddled with a newspaper Web site, it was thespartandaily.com, after I walked into an adviser’s office at San Jose State’s School of Journalism & Mass Communications and asked something like “hey, any way to get an RSS feed off that thing?”
There was, and we did, and [...]
I’ve been whittling away at this at random hours in between 642 other small projects, so feel free to click through and have a look at my handiwork.
Major goals of this minor redesign included:
Play with the header graphic. (Done.)
Fix the FriendFeed stream and make it useful. (Done.)
Clean things up, remove some widget bloat, figure out [...]
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve posted a rundown of some of the internal Twitter for Enterprise type services that are out there at the moment, from the Prologue theme for WordPress (free!) to Backpack Journal from 37signals (not free!).
Plus, there’s a bit about the feature inspiration I picked up yesterday at blip.fm.
The evolving list of features [...]
There’s a new site up at ReportingOn.com, where you’ll find a blog, a bit more detailed information on the About page, links to ReportingOn on Facebook and Twitter, and the @reportingon Twitter stream, always in flux.
Check it out…