Author: Ryan Sholin
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Like analytics? Need a good laugh and/or cry?
Like analytics? Need a good laugh and/or cry? New and Better Metrics For Determining Digital Supremacy, by A Bajillion Hits. via @nicknotned, amusingly.
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Customer service, community management, and comment threads
If you’re reading this, you’ve probably been on one side (or quite possibly the other) of an exchange that goes something like this: PERSON AT NEWSPAPER WITH WEB-RELATED JOB: Sentinel, this is Ryan, how can I help you? USER: Your website’s all wrong. PANWWRJ: Really? What’s wrong? USER: You don’t use XMLT 4.1. It’s still…
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An alternative to Audacity: Fission
An alternative to Audacity: Fission: New to me, a free, somewhat uncomplicated audio editor for OSX.
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The Carnival of Journalism Revival Traveling Medicine Show
A couple years back, a sprawling cadre of journalism bloggers (myself included) participated — at least, for a few months — in a blog carnival. Now without getting into the sordid details of what makes a blog carnival, and [INSERT CRACK ABOUT HOW NOBODY BLOGS ANYMORE BECAUSE YOU ALL HAVE THE TWITTERS AND WHATNOTS], it…
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Texas statehouse press corps arms themselves. To use the express lane.
Texas statehouse press corps arms themselves. To use the express lane at capitol security. What? via
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The Inbox Zero Thing
I really, really, really, dislike “productivity” books. And gurus. And methods. And things that can generally be characterized as dogmatic. But I like this. I know I’m late to this party, but for years, I thought Inbox Zero was some sort of Getting Things Done-related madness involving a lot of folders and filters and whatnot.…
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Ushahidi’s Crowdmap adds checkins, just in case you need a white-label app to gather and map breaking news reports. (Hint: You probably do.)
Ushahidi’s Crowdmap adds checkins, just in case you need a white-label app to gather and map breaking news reports. (Hint: You probably do.)
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The Quora adoption hockey stick moment, explained by a Quora engineer answering a question on Quora
The Quora adoption hockey stick moment, explained by a Quora engineer answering a question on Quora, naturally.