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Ryan Sholin

Year: 2005

  • More on the Commonwealth Club event at SJSU

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    It seems like they really are serious about running through the whole “Blogging as Journalism” schtick. One of the organizers stopped by our class and showed a bit of video to pump us up about the whole horizontal communication thing. The coolest thing about the event, especially given Jay Rosen’s recent post about how boring…

  • The Future of the Mass Audience

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    Here’s a few links that go with my presentation in our graduate class tonight: Baghdad Burning: Iraqi woman blogging about her life in Baghdad – she was 24 when she started the blog in August 2003. The Annotated New York Times: Putting the content of the NY Times together with the commentary and criticism. Anyone…

  • Another Blogger Talk at SJSU

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    Next Tuesday night, April 19th, at the MLK Library: Dan Gillmor (grassroots media guru), David Pescovitz (co-editor of BoingBoing), and Jude Barry (ex political-PR type) will be talking about…well heck, it’s being billed by the organizers as “Joining the Blogosphere” and sounds like an “Are Blogs Journalism” mixer — but with reps from Media, Technology,…

  • Feeds Simplified

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    Hey Mom – Here’s a good explanation of RSS feeds and how to use them from Yahoo: What is RSS? RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format for distributing and aggregating Web content (such as news headlines). Using RSS, Web content providers can easily create and disseminate feeds of data that include, for example,…

  • Let the assimilation begin

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    UPDATE: I am the Universal Oppressor (white american male). Riverbend is a Woman. With a book out. Over at Baghdad Burning, my favorite Iraqi blogger has a post up about the American media content pushing its way onto the airwaves: Al-Hurra, the purported channel of freedom, is the American gift to the Arab world. What…

  • Feed Me

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    WARNING: I am about to GO SCOBLE. So I get my “I’ve got a shiny new website” email from my personal all-time favorite candidate for president, Ohio Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, and I check out the site. It’s great. Much slicker than what he had up during the 2004 race. There’s video, a little flashy…

  • The Annotated New York Times

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    Whoa. Scoble does (whoops, left something out) DOES NOT think this awesome site is as cool as Memeorandum, but I side with Steve Rubel on this one. The Annotated Times throws together aggregates a page of NY Times stories along with a link to blogs that are linking to each story. What’s more, there’s a…

  • Current Work

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    What I’m working on this week: –Finished reading The Future Of The Mass Audience, starting my powerpoint presentation of half of it for my grad class. Check out the beyond bullets blog to get an idea of where I’m headed with my presentation style, which, of course, does not exist, because I have never done…

  • In San Francisco Today

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    I am now an official cliche. I am sitting in a Starbuck’s in San Francisco with my notebook computer hooked up to the wireless, and I am blogging. Ugh. If it can get any sillier, Leonard Cohen is on their stereo satellite radio. A few amusing sightings today, but given my city years, it takes…

  • Still In Recovery Mode

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    We’re no wild party people, but I am still recovering from the lack of sleep and sensory onslaught of hanging out in Vegas for a few days. The coolest part of the whole thing was seeing my mom give her presentation at WPPI in front of 200-300 people. These people were taking notes. I’m not…