Ryan Sholin

Month: May 2005

  • 132 Mayors work around Bush on Kyoto

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    The basics? Lots and lots of people live in cities. We can make a difference with or without the federal government’s support.

  • Factiva vs. Firefox

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    Hey Factiva people! Any compatibility with Firefox in the works? Factiva is the LAST thing I’m still using IE for. UPDATE 5/16: well that worked. Murray Williams, a product manager at Factiva, dropped a comment: “Factiva does indeed have great plans for Firefox in the works. We’ll be making an announcement shortly.” Cool. Thanks for…

  • Steve Gillmor: Always On.

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    I do not pretend to understand everything Steve Gillmor talks about, but I can usually understand its importance.

  • A Face-to-Face Moment

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    Well that was cool. SJSU Photojournalism Prof/blogger Dennis Dunleavy invited me up to his class to hear Steve Sloan, SJSU Emerging Tech Guru & general technological evangelist, who riffed on podcasting and tablets in education. Steve wants to get together a few SJSU/JMC bloggers for a podcast-friendly interview soon – i’ll link to it here…

  • Found on Flickr: Bean Pod Battle

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    Found this on Flickr: “The field he’s standing by extends in several directions for many hundreds of meters. In the summer they harvest shitloads of beans. Well, by spring the bean pods are pretty welld eveloped and would attract even more kids because they would hang out and munch on the beans while we bullshitted…

  • News from the front: Blogs Vs. Journalism

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    There are quite a few Profs here with more than a few decades of journalism experience under their belts, not to mention years of teaching, and frankly, precious few of them buy into the idea of horizontal communication.

  • Blogsome Issues

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    This blog is hosted, for free, by Blogsome, which appears to be run by a small bunch of folks in Ireland. The google ads on the left sidebar are theirs, and although I can remove them, I don’t bother, since they are letting me user their server space for free. Yes, I know I can…

  • Get Your War On

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    JUST in case I haven’t mentioned it before, Get Your War On is the coolest thing on Earth. Okay, “cool” is subjective, but how about, “awesome-est.” Yeah, well start working on that writing style any minute now…

  • Social Security Flashers

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    MoveOn‘s got a winner in their “Bush in 30 Years” contest — they were looking for a few good Flash animations to illustrate the social security “crisis” and proposed solutions. Check out the flashy goodness here.

  • How many white women can go missing in one news cycle?

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    Via Romenesko, a set of stories highlighting the common thread in the most sensationalized missing persons reports of the last few years: white women seem to be vanishing left and right. The recent runaway bride ridiculousness is the point of departure, and the stories Romenesko links to point out that this sort of soap opera…