Author: Ryan Sholin
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The avatar problem
I’ll be at ONA09 for the next few days, where I’ll meet, probably, a few hundred people I know from the Internet. But they don’t know me. I mean, they know what I say and write and produce online, but most of them know my avatar better. That’s the one. I’m sitting outside at a…
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Zipcar finally puts iPhone app in drive
I’ve never used Zipcar but hear it’s awesome. Now you can find the nearest available car, make a reservation, and unlock the door with an iPhone app. Zipcar finally puts iPhone app in drive
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Hippo Hooray! – Handcrafted iPhone apps to educate and entertain your little one.
Hippo Hooray! – Handcrafted iPhone apps to educate and entertain your little one.
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The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog
A useful guide, especially if your blog is still outfitted with the default blue theme and zero plugins. The Beginner’s Guide to Tricking Out Your WordPress Blog
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Color converter – HEX to RGB and rgb to hex color converter
No nonsense tool to convert color codes. Color converter – HEX to RGB and rgb to hex color converter
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Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good
Full audio and transcript of a recent Clay Shirky talk that includes this note on the unbundling of media: “So, in the language of my tribe, the aggregation of news sources has gone from being a server-side to a client-side operation — which is to say, the decision about what to bring together into a…
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VIDEO: DocumentCloud moves ahead
Here’s NiemanLab’s interview with Aron Pilhofer from the New York Times on the big additions to the list of DocumentCloud partner organizations. VIDEO: DocumentCloud moves ahead
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A challenge for you: Community coworking space and Web worker job training
Right here, right now, I’m going to give you a great idea, for free. Enter it in the Knight News Challenge (deadline: Oct. 15), or perhaps more likely, the Community Information Needs challenge (next year). Or fund it yourself. Or bootstrap it. Or pitch it to a local nonprofit with stimulus money to spend on…
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The Science of ReTweets Report
Here’s the full Dan Zarella report on words, punctuation marks, etc. that will get you retweeted. I’d love to see what these numbers look like a few months after RTs are codified. The Science of ReTweets Report