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Ryan Sholin

Year: 2005

  • Cass “The Daily Me” Sunstein Standing In For Lessig This Week

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    Sunstein is sitting in at Larry Lessig&#39s blog this week, and the conversation has begun. I&#39m excited to see someone so entrenched as a counterpoint in recent New Media theory taste-testing the Aggregation-flavored Kool-Aid. Follow the thread, see where it goes.

  • How To Succeed In Blogness Without Really Trying

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    Darren Rowse made between $10,000 and $20,000 via Google Adsense advertising on his blogs in the month of May. So, yeah, some people make money directly from advertising on their blogs. How droll. Dave Winer boils down the alternative point of view: “The opportunities to make money from podcasting are misunderstood, much in the way…

  • Editing Wikipedia A Great Exercise For Students

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    Andy Carvin proposes Turning Wikipedia into an Asset for Schools. The simple idea: assign students a Wikipedia page to edit. They do their research and either verify the accuracy of the current page or make revisions, posting their concerns and citing their sources on the discussion page for the entry. Students get experience researching and…

  • New Frontier Thesis

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    In 1893, Frederick Jackson Turner presented a paper called “The Significance of the Frontier in American History” at a meeting of the American Historical Association coinciding with the World’s Fair in Chicago. The fair was commemorating the Columbian spirit of exploration. (It was 1893, and no one was really into commemorating the spirit of conquest…

  • Newsgator Blogroll

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    As promised, NewsGator blogroll now on the sidebar. No more Bloglines, no more Plumbers.

  • Trackback Spam Solutions?

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    Plugins are killing my trackback spam…for everyone but me. I mean, it’s all invisible, not cluttering up my email with moderation or anything, but my Stats plugin is absolutely useless because the referrer log is overrun with poker sites. I don’t want to play poker online, guys. Sorry. [tags]wordpress, trackback, spam[/tags]

  • Credibility Issues – BoingBoing

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    [UPDATE: If you’re coming from a Wikinews discussion page, please note that there’s no video here, just a link posted in the comments to this post by “Jeremy Southeby”.] Hey Mark Frauenfelder, I’m having a bit of a problem with this BoingBoing post. It’s a story pulled from a super-tight-tinfoil-hat September 11th conspiracy sort of…

  • Watching Scott McClellan Squirm

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    If you enjoy watching White House Press Secretaries squirm, today’s gaggle is for you. Video at Crooks and Liars, transcript at… the White House. I once read a Howard Kurtz book called Spin Cycle about the Clinton era Press Secretaries and how they dealt with scandals. As long as the president wasn’t lying to them,…

  • Summertime Rolls – Recent Photography

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    Yesterday we headed north a good solid ten minutes to Davenport. When I talk about what I liked about living in Albuquerque, New Mexico, I always tell people that you could drive ten minutes out of town in any direction and be in the middle of nowhere. In Santa Cruz, there’s three directions to choose…

  • Things You Wouldn’t Do In Publix*

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    *When I was a wee little sprout in Unincorporated Northeast Dade County (I swear – that was where some of our mail was addressed to), it got confusing sometimes what was “Public” and what was the local grocery store “Publix“. There were lots of things, I learned, that one wasn’t supposed to do or say…