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Ryan Sholin

Month: February 2011

  • How Al Jazeera tweets

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    The Twitter Media posse runs down how Al Jazeera — and specifically, the campaign to get Al Jazeera’s English offering to U.S. viewers — has been using Twitter during the current events in Egypt: I Want My AJZ. Notable: The use of promoted tweets to surface at the top of the #Egypt search.

  • Taking Egypt personally

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    Although it’s quickly getting pushed out of the news cycle by the Super Bowl and its commercial trappings, plus a big digital media acquisition immediately in the wake of the weekend, the story in Egypt has captured my attention for the last two weeks or so. Why? It’s not really the politics. At this point,…

  • DocumentCloud in action

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    DocumentCloud in action: Five examples from 10,000 Words, including uses from the Las Vegas Sun and PBS NewsHour.

  • Newspaper video lessons from The Miami Herald

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    Newspaper video lessons learned: How The Miami Herald cultivates loyal audience for video, its second biggest traffic driver. The short version: Breaking news, sports, weird local news, nothing your audience isn’t already reading about on your site or in your paper.