2009 – Page 11 – Ryan Sholin

Mediaspace > Industry News > News Map

Jul 17, 2009

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A useful map and database of U.S. newspapers and their reported circulation, Web traffic numbers. Mediaspace > Industry News > News Map

Notes, links, and recent entanglements

Jul 15, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

A bulleted list of things that have caught my eye over the past few days, or things I’ve been involved in, or things I’d like to be involved in… Pat Thornton interviewed me for the BeatBlogging podcast. We talked about ReportingOn, what it could become, and (more important) what it could spawn if there are…

Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk – Waxy.org

Jul 15, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

How to use Mechanical Turk to turn audio files into text files. Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk – Waxy.org

New at IdeaLab: What’s new in ReportingOn 2.0 and what’s been left undone

Jul 15, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

Over at IdeaLab, I’ve got a post up that circles back to the first version of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project. In the post, I revisit some of the problems the 2.0 release was intended to solve, and I do a bit of scorekeeping on RO’s progress. Here’s a bit from the post about…

Chat live with me today at Poynter about teaching social media in journalism school

Jul 9, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Education

I’ll be doing the Poynter live chat thing at 1pm EDT today over there. Please, show up, ask some questions, share some success stories, and add to the conversation. [UPDATE: Wow, that was awesome. Thanks to everyone who showed up, and to Ellyn, Mallary, and everyone else at Poynter for hosting and inviting me. The…

Are your readers a community?

Jul 8, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Media

I asked my Twitter followers what they think of substituting the word “community” for “readers” and I’m getting lots of good responses, many of them negative. Either I didn’t know “community” had much of a stigma, or I spent too long working with “community” newspapers to notice. Back then, it seemed like a great linguistic…

Five Best Online Image Editors – Lifehacker

Jul 8, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Great roundup, including one I’ve never heard of but immediately want to try out, Sumo Paint. Five Best Online Image Editors – Lifehacker

Screenjelly

Jul 7, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Newstangle

Useful! Browser based screencasting tool with no downloads, and easy sharing via Twitter, e-mail, or saving to your choice of social network (Facebook, Friendfeed, Delicious, etc.). Screenjelly

Announcing: ReportingOn 2.0 is live

Jul 2, 2009

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Ryan Sholin

in Ideas

ReportingOn 2.0 is live and ready for your questions. And answers. It’s still the backchannel for your beat, but it’s an absolute re-imagining of the network. For those of you who haven’t been keeping score, ReportingOn is a project funded by the Knight News Challenge, and it’s a place for journalists of all stripes to…