Author: Ryan Sholin
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The best thing about being on a team…
…is that you don’t have to do everything yourself. That’s what I’m finally learning after 3.5 months at my new job. Everyone has a specialty, and the best thing you can do is let everyone do what they do best, whether it’s design, code, manage, write, shoot, edit, record, or evangelize. I spent my lunch…
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I covet your WordPress 2.1
So WordPress 2.1 is out, and it comes with some great new features, but if you’re like me, and you run a few outdated plugins and have hacked up your templates based more on instinct than actual coding knowledge, things might not go quite as planned. I’m not paranoid, I’m just not going to continue…
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Sacramento digest: Capitol Alert debuts today – sacbee.com
$499 a year for California political news from the Sacramento Bee? Is this viable? Is keeping this stuff behind a (high) paywall serving the public interest? Who will subscribe? In other words, I’m interested in the business model, but worried about t Sacramento digest: Capitol Alert debuts today – sacbee.com
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Flash Movie Conversion for Mac OS X
Good tutorial on using FFmpegX for Mac to convert finished video to FLV. Flash Movie Conversion for Mac OS X
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What were the ideas and thoughts behind Studio 55? – robcurley.com
This is more than I want to spend, slicker than I want it to look, and more broadcasty than I think it should be, but the notes on getting reporters on camera to not worry about anything but the journalism make a lot of sense to me. What were the ideas and thoughts behind Studio…
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Teaching Online Journalism: Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism
Must-read comment thread with lots of J-School students weighing in. Very depressing how few get it. Job security is nice and all, but I could use a hand, kids. Teaching Online Journalism: Getting (and keeping) a job in journalism
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Great web tools for the frontend ninja | The Montoya Herald
An excellent set of tools for figuring out what your site looks like in Safari, how it loads at 56kbps, etc. Great web tools for the frontend ninja | The Montoya Herald
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The State of the Union in Words: A Look at the 34,000 State of the Union Words Delivered of George W. Bush – New York Times
Data + Flash presentation + search = a damn fine, usable, informational package. Any thought of doing it for a few other presidents as well? Chart the use of the word “nuclear” in Reagan’s speeches? The State of the Union in Words: A Look at the 34,000 State of the Union Words Delivered of George…
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VIDEO UPDATE: Six-hour downtown Santa Cruz standoff ends in arrest | Sentinel Multimedia | Santa Cruz Sentinel
Interesting day at the office. Went out and shot this myself. I was out there for four hours or so, cut this together and got it posted in about one hour. VIDEO UPDATE: Six-hour downtown Santa Cruz standoff ends in arrest | Sentinel Multimedia | Santa Cruz Sentinel