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Ryan Sholin

Year: 2005

  • Factiva Supports Firefox

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    Factiva now works in Firefox, thus making IE useless to me…at least until IE7 ships. via Steve Rubel’s Delicious linkblog which apparently only shows up in my aggregator and not on his blog. Neat. Previously…

  • Why Aggregators Matter

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    Just in case anyone is wondering why I care, other than just having the urge to voice my point of view as a user: I’m constantly having the discussion with people about why RSS and Blogs and Feeds are so important, why these things are tools to totally subvery the normal hierarchy of mass media,…

  • Newsgator beats Bloglines

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    So I switched to Newsgator, for none of the reasons I was groaning about the other day. I “marked all read” (not a simple task) and started fresh. Suddenly, it’s fun to read my feeds again. What’s missing? The ability to send new subscriptions straight to the folder of my choice. I don’t have many…

  • Logic Prevails

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    After his talk with management, Steve Sloan can now podcast his conversations with students all he wants, but logically enough, this should be happening off campus and not while he’s on the clock. Steve writes: “I have no desire to become a cause celeb or cause undo controversy. I appreciate the respect for my freedom…

  • Ethics and Global Marketing in Venezuela

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    I’ve posted a paper I wrote on Venezuela for an Anthropology class this summer on my Other Writing page. I’ve done my best to keep this paper as balanced as possible, trying to show how the current political culture in Venezuela has defined how the nation interacts with American corporations in certain cases. I do…

  • SJSU vs. Edupodder Update

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    For the record, I haven’t received any reply from Steve Sloan’s boss yet to the email I sent late last week. One of the two classes I’m in right now ends today, so starting tomorrow I’ll have a bit more time to make phone calls and do some good old fashioned shoe leather reporting. I…

  • Grade Revisions: Cutting Down My A-List

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    Things have been a bit busy around here for a few weeks, with two short Summer classes happily eating up most of my day, and never enough reading time at night. So I’ve been cutting down on my “Everyday Reading” of blogs, and tonight it’s time to trim the “A-List” category in my aggregator. Yeah,…

  • Spam Karma Does My Dirty Work

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    Had a lovely line-up of trackback spam flowing into the blog this morning, so I found, downloaded, and activated a WordPress plugin called Spam Karma 2. It worked. Thanks Dave!

  • SJSU Spartan Daily: Now With RSS!

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    By the way, SJSU’s Spartan Daily now has an RSS Feed. It’s Summer, so there’s nothing there just yet. The Daily resumes publication on August 24th, so for now, paste that feed into your aggregator, hit your subscribe button, and relax. Ubiquitous little orange button forthcoming – my inner codemonkey (10 PRINT “my name is…

  • Humans Subvert Hierarchy

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    I’ve written an email to Steve Sloan’s boss looking for some insight into why he was told that he is not allowed to record any podcasts with students. When I get a reply, I’ll try to tell SJSU’s side of the story. Steve’s been writing about how Hyperlinks Subvert Hierarchy: This is where we cut…