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Ryan Sholin

Month: June 2008

  • Anatomy of a Twitter Bot – seamonkeyrodeo

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    Some basic twiiterbot instructions involving Perl and a MySQL database. Anatomy of a Twitter Bot – seamonkeyrodeo

  • Newsvetter | Media Directed PR

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    A middleman for PR pitches to journalists? HARO, PitchEngine, newsvetter… All interesting angles. Newsvetter | Media Directed PR

  • salary vs performance – ben fry

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    Baseball teams charted simply by record and payroll. The Devil Rays and Marlins are getting the most bang for their buck. My Yankees? Not so much. salary vs performance – ben fry

  • ReportingOn 0.3

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    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…

  • 10 obvious things, one year later

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    A year ago today, I published the most popular blog post I’ve ever written. It’s a little counter-handwringing list meant to answer some of the frequently asked questions posed by Old Journalism. So, a year later, here’s a quick take on where things stand: It’s not Google’s fault: Score one for newspapers. I haven’t heard…

  • Don’t even try to get that story on A1

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    Pullquote from a bit of morning reading at the Knight Digital Media Center’s News Leadership 3.0 blog: “I once consulted at a well-respected metro newspaper where several writers told me they tried to avoid pitching their stories for the front page because the ‘serial editing’ of these stories was such a hassle for them and…

  • Unscheduled downtime

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    “Sometimes, you eat the bar. And sometimes, the bar eats you.” And sometimes, something blows up at a data center in Houston and your cool new Web host has all its servers shut down for 36 hours while fires are quite literally put out and power is restored. I imagine things might be up and…