Author: Ryan Sholin
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Foundation
A content management system for alternative weeklies produced, marketed, hosted, licensed, etc. by a vendor and two news orgs. Includes add-ons for Q&A, iPhone app, etc. Foundation
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Crucial reading on the evolution of news, as it stands today
I feel like this summer has been sort of a rolling watershed moment in the Present of News, if not necessarily the Future of it. (Yes, yes, the lowercase present is always becoming the lowercase future, but I’m talking about the supposed collective vision for the Future of News that, well, usually gets held up…
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Much Ado About IE6 – Digg the Blog
Very, very useful angles on how/why to deal with reduced support for IE6. Some great data here too on the breakdown of Digg users, by browser, who are active on the site. If IE6 users just read and never push a button, why go to the extra trouble to code buttons they can push? Much…
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New at IdeaLab: The People Formerly Known as the Audience need a new name
Over at IdeaLab, I’m continuing a conversation I started on Twitter a couple weeks ago that spilled over here as well. What do you call your readers now that they’re participating actively in the creation and curation of unbundled media? Do you call them a community? Better yet, what makes an online “community” and how…
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Further notes on objectivity, transparency, and links
When I met David Weinberger in person last month at his Harvard talk with Doc Searls and Jonathan Zittrain about Cluetrain, I told him something along the lines of “I’ve been enjoying your blog for as long as I’ve been reading blogs.” And that’s true. I’ve been reading Weinberger, and — probably more interesting to…
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guardian-twitterfall – Google Code
Here’s the Guardian U.K.’s app for running a conference display of live tweets with *moderation* — call it curation, even — instead of just firehosing a hashtag up on the screen. guardian-twitterfall – Google Code
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Mediaspace > Industry News > News Map
A useful map and database of U.S. newspapers and their reported circulation, Web traffic numbers. Mediaspace > Industry News > News Map
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Notes, links, and recent entanglements
A bulleted list of things that have caught my eye over the past few days, or things I’ve been involved in, or things I’d like to be involved in… Pat Thornton interviewed me for the BeatBlogging podcast. We talked about ReportingOn, what it could become, and (more important) what it could spawn if there are…
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Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk – Waxy.org
How to use Mechanical Turk to turn audio files into text files. Cheap, Easy Audio Transcription with Mechanical Turk – Waxy.org
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New at IdeaLab: What’s new in ReportingOn 2.0 and what’s been left undone
Over at IdeaLab, I’ve got a post up that circles back to the first version of ReportingOn, my Knight News Challenge project. In the post, I revisit some of the problems the 2.0 release was intended to solve, and I do a bit of scorekeeping on RO’s progress. Here’s a bit from the post about…