Author: Ryan Sholin
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If you can’t beat ’em, or buy ’em, use the API
Newspapers should produce amazing local databases with great maps, ratings and reviews. A newspaper company should buy Yelp. Yelp now has an open API. Newspapers should stop trying to develop something better, and use the API to provide users with Yelp’s functionality on their own sites, applied to their local businesses. Apply that logic everywhere…
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Newser – Faster, Smarter News
Cute, but useless without a community or reader interaction. Newser – Faster, Smarter News
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North Miami Beach High School – Wikipedia
A surprisingly detailed narrative Wikipedia entry for my high school. North Miami Beach High School – Wikipedia
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Meta notes: Where to find my microchunks
If you get the feeling I haven’t been writing here as much lately, you’re right. But I’m still out here, reading everything I can get my hands on and throwing up links left and right. They’re just not always where you’re expecting them, eh? So then, if the meager postings to Delicious you find on…
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The Press Will Be Outsourced Before Stopped – Vin Crosbie
“It’s your content. Specifically, it’s what you report, which stories you publish, and how you publish them to people, who, by the way, have very different individual interests. The problem is the content you’re giving them, stupid; not the platform its o The Press Will Be Outsourced Before Stopped – Vin Crosbie
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Twin Cities Bridge Collapse – Newsdesigner.com
Strib and PiPress fronts the day after the collapse. Twin Cities Bridge Collapse – Newsdesigner.com
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House panel approves legal shield for bloggers – CNET News.com
Not as great as it sounds. Basically says that bloggers are journalists IF they make money “or livelihood” — if they take ads. Not sure how detailed the language is, because my blog has certainly been a factor in getting “livelihood.” via Dave W. House panel approves legal shield for bloggers – CNET News.com
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Democrat & Chronicle: Community Blogs
Fairport/Perinton community blog written on the D&C site by a non-staffer. Sure do wish there was an RSS feed… sigh… Democrat & Chronicle: Community Blogs
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Democrat & Chronicle: rocdocs
Drooling over all this database info gathered in one place. As per Joe Murphy, I’d like to see links to these databases in every relevant story. They can’t just sit here on an island. via Daniel S. Democrat & Chronicle: rocdocs
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MNspeak.com – I35w Bridge Collapses
300-comment-long thread full of “I’m OK” and links to information. Breaking news crowdsourced, on the spot. Disasters are the easiest thing to do this with: Thousands of concerned mobile reporters leap into action. MNspeak.com – I35w Bridge Collapses